Ross Noble
What happens when pure comedy takes human form? What happens when a creature is created and bred to do stand up?
Nobody knows because that isn’t a thing. What is a thing is Ross Noble doing a show. You can come and see it. This is it.
"He is pure delight." The Times
"Thrilling to watch... weepingly funny." Mail on Sunday
This is the new rescheduled date from Wednesday 3 February 2021.
All tickets, including pre-booked venue parking, will remain valid for the new date. If you need to contact us to discuss your booking please email dmh-office@leicester.gov.uk
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Following his five-star Olivier-nominated hit My Family: Not The Sitcom and the return to number 1 of his seminal football anthem Three Lions, David Baddiel comes back to the stage with a brand new one-man show, Trolls: Not The Dolls.
Trolls: the terrible people who spend all day insulting and abusing strangers for no other reason than to fill the huge gaps in their souls. There is a common wisdom about how to deal with trolls: don’t, for goodness sake, encourage these people by replying to them.
It’s a good law. And it’s one that David Baddiel has consistently broken. Because David has always seen trolls as hecklers, and if a comedian gets heckled, it is their duty not to ignore the heckler, but to wittily put them down. Over the years, David has spent a lot of time doing this, which has led him to think that there might be a show in it: a show that would say something about how we live now.
David has stories to tell, of the dark, terrible and hysterically absurd cyber-paths that interacting with trolls has led him down. Come with him on this comedy journey into our culture’s most dank virtual underground. You will come back safe, more able to deflect your own trolls, and only a little bit soiled.
"Boasts side-splitting laughs and also moves people to tears." Evening Standard
"Hugely funny." The Times
"Compelling to watch both for its unvarnished truth and complicated affection." The Guardian
"A show that bubbles with love and unexpected joie de vivre." The Telegraph
This is the new rescheduled date from Sunday 28 March 2021. All tickets, including pre-booked venue parking, will remain valid for the new date even if they have an old date on them.
Please read our FAQs before visiting, where we explain all our Covid-secure measures.
The biggest change is you must have proof of your Covid status to get into the hall. We are also staggering entry times to avoid congestion.
For this event, we would appreciate it if you could try to arrive between the following times:
6:30 to 7pm - if you are sitting in the Upper Circle, Rear Circle or Tiered Stalls rows P to X
7 to 7:30pm - if you are sitting in the Flat Stalls, Tiered Stalls rows A to O, or the Left, Right and Front Circles
For anyone who has booked a space in our customer car park, this will be open from 6.15pm to allow time to park in advance. If you have not booked a space, you can book it online, at £4 per space, subject to availability.
For full information about our Covid-secure procedures, including where to go when you get here and what you can do, read the FAQs on our website. Please take time to read them thoroughly before your visit and if you have any queries get in touch by email dmh-office@leicester.gov.uk or calling 0116 233 3111.
Please be aware that any of this information may change if national guidance is updated. We will keep the website updated with the latest information.
Comedy superstar John Bishop is coming to De Montfort Hall to warm up for his brand new show!
John is very much looking forward to this new adventure, this will be his eighth stand up show and its shaping up to be his best yet!!
John can’t wait to be back on the road again. John has achieved huge success with a number of his own comedy, entertainment and documentary shows including John Bishop’s Australia (BBC1), John Bishop’s Britain (BBC1), John Bishop’s Only Joking (Sky1), The John Bishop Show (BBC1), The John Bishop Christmas Show (BBC1) and John Bishop’s Gorilla Adventure (ITV1).
More recently John Bishop’s Ireland for ITV1 and four series of John Bishop: In Conversation With… which sees him chatting, one to one with some of the UK’s biggest names. John has also hosted The Royal Variety Performance.
"A gloriously gifted storyteller." **** Daily Telegraph
"Bishop has funny bones." **** The Times
"Winging It is two hours of observational humour delivered so skilfully it looks effortless." Evening Standard
"His Supersonic show easily confirms that John Bishop has finally taken on the mantle of Britain’s top comic." **** Daily Mirror
This is the new rescheduled date from Friday 11 September 2020. All tickets, including pre-booked venue parking, will remain valid for the new date even if they have an old date on them.
Please read our FAQs before visiting, where we explain all our Covid-secure measures.
The biggest change is you must have proof of your Covid status to get into the hall. We are also staggering entry times to avoid congestion.
For this event, we would appreciate it if you could try to arrive between the following times:
7 to 7:30pm - if you are sitting in the Upper Circle, Rear Circle or Tiered Stalls rows P to X
7:30 to 8pm - if you are sitting in the Flat Stalls, Tiered Stalls rows A to O, or the Left, Right and Front Circles
For anyone who has booked a space in our customer car park, this will be open from 6.15pm to allow time to park in advance. Please note parking for this event has now sold out.
For full information about our Covid-secure procedures, including where to go when you get here and what you can do, read the FAQs on our website. Please take time to read them thoroughly before your visit and if you have any queries get in touch by email dmh-office@leicester.gov.uk or calling 0116 233 3111.
Please be aware that any of this information may change if national guidance is updated. We will keep the website updated with the latest information.
It has been a while, but the multi-award-winning Welsh comedian is back, with a brand new live show. In a seven-year break from stand-up, a lot has happened to Rhod Gilbert. Almost all of it s**t. And just when he thought he’d hit rock bottom, he met a bloke... called John.
This show sees Rhod as funny as ever, but like never before. Raw, personal and brutally honest; no more lies, no more nonsense. Tour extended due to phenomenal demand.
As seen on Rhod Gilbert’s Work Experience, Would I Lie to You?, Taskmaster, Qi, The Apprentice: You’re Fired, Live at The Apollo, Have I Got News for You?, and much more…
"Darkly hilarious. Gilbert's most satisfying show for a decade. It's good to have him back." Times
"Volcanic, high octane humour. Uproariously funny." Guardian
"Britain's crossest comic roars back in style. Hilarious tour-de-force." Telegraph
This is the new rescheduled date from Sunday 14 March 2021 (previously Sunday 25 October 2020).
All tickets, including pre-booked venue parking, will remain valid for the new date. If you need to contact us to discuss your booking please email dmh-office@leicester.gov.uk
Comedy legend Frank Skinner is returning to De Montfort Hall with his critically acclaimed stand-up show Showbiz.
Prior to his west end triumph, the last twelve months have seen Frank perform sold-out runs at London’s Leicester Square Theatre, the Edinburgh fringe, and a 45-date national UK tour, making Showbiz the must-see comedy event of the year.
What the critics have said about Frank Skinner and Showbiz:
"A beautifully confessional new show. His material continues to improve and this is possibly his best show yet." Stephen Armstrong, The Sunday Times
"The king of stand-up." Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard
"Real stand-up, real lightness of touch, real joy." Dominic Maxwell, The Times
"Skinner is warm, impeccable company and his way with a punchline is still masterful…there are numerous brilliant moments… an evening in Skinner’s company is a delight." Paul Fleckney, The Guardian
"Skinner is a comic at ease with himself and his career, and Showbiz proves to be a masterclass in owning the room." Veronica Lee, The I
"Doing what he does best… the gags just keep on coming. Stand-up’s coming home." Mark Wareham, Mail on Sunday
"Sharp punchlines…a witty, entertaining raconteur." Steve Bennett, Chortle
"He’s clearly lost none of his mojo." Sharon Lougher, Metro
This is the new rescheduled date from Saturday 17 July 2021.
All tickets, including pre-booked venue parking, will remain valid for the new date. If you need to contact us to discuss your booking please email dmh-office@leicester.gov.uk
Alan’s back on the road with a brand-new stand-up show Regional Trinket. From the exhilarating high of his star-studded wedding day to the low of lockdown stuck on a farm, a lot has changed since Alan’s last tour four years ago, including Alan. Nowadays, it’s all about finding happiness and joy in the small things - why be a national treasure when you can be a Regional Trinket?!
"Sheer entertainment." Evening Standard
"Bellyachingly funny." The Sunday Telegraph
These are the new rescheduled dates
Tuesday 13 October 2020 rescheduled to Wednesday 10 November 2021
Thursday 19 November 2020 rescheduled to Thursday 11 November 2021
All tickets, including pre-booked venue parking, will remain valid for the new date. If you need to contact us to discuss your booking please email dmh-office@leicester.gov.uk
British Comedy Award winner Nina Conti is back on tour! The quick-thinking queen of ventriloquism brings you her pioneering new dating show. She’ll be like Cilla Black with masks. Derailed. Not so much a Blind Date as a re-voiced one. There’s no promise that true love will be found, but a firm guarantee that big laughs will be had in the reign of this voice-throwing queen (London Evening Standard).
Conti has stormed Live at the Apollo, made a BAFTA-nominated film and enjoyed sell out shows across the world – all without moving her lips.
"Put simply, Nina Conti is a genius." ***** Daily Mirror
"Richly entertaining… A plate-spinning feat, a hoot." **** The Guardian
"You will see nothing like it on stage." **** London Evening Standard
"Gut-bustlingly funny." **** The Telegraph
Comedy superstar John Bishop is coming to De Montfort Hall with his highly anticipated brand-new stand up show – Right Here, Right Now.
This will be John’s eighth stand up show and it is shaping up to be his best yet. It will see him performing across the UK, Ireland, America, Canada and Europe. He can’t wait to be back on the road again!
John has achieved huge success with a number of his own comedy, entertainment and documentary shows including, John Bishop’s Australia (BBC1), John Bishop’s Britain (BBC1), John Bishop’s Only Joking (Sky1), The John Bishop Show (BBC1), The John Bishop Christmas Show (BBC1) and John Bishop’s Gorilla Adventure (ITV1).
More recently John Bishop’s Ireland for ITV1 and four mammoth series of the critically acclaimed John Bishop: In Conversation With... which saw him chatting, one to one with some of the world’s biggest, household names.
"A gloriously gifted storyteller." **** Daily Telegraph
"Bishop has funny bones." **** The Times
"Two hours of observational humour delivered so skilfully it looks effortless." Evening Standard
"John Bishop has taken on the mantle of Britain’s top comic." **** Daily Mirror
Following his global smash hit Live Innit, the star of Taskmaster and the first British Asian stand up to sell out London’s Wembley Arena is back.
After barely surviving the pandemic, and with two years' of pent-up killer material, Paul tackles the UKs handling of the pandemic, why the rules of six only worked for white people, fame, England football fans and Tom Cruise landing his helicopter in someone’s garden. Don’t miss it.
After a sell-out tour of his house in 2020 (extended into 2021 due to popular demand), Ol’ Broken Pancreas is charged up and ready to flick the switch on another night of attention seeking.
Co-host of the award-winning mega hit podcast Off Menu with James Acaster, Taskmaster champion, and has his own special Blood Sugar available worldwide on Amazon Prime.
As seen and heard on Mock the Week (BBC2), Live At the Apollo (BBC), The Russell Howard Hour (Sky), QI (BBC2), Would I Lie To You (BBC) and Sunday mornings on Radio X alongside Matthew Crosby.
"An ability to open his mouth and spontaneously say something hysterically funny." James Kettle, The Guardian
"He is on irresistible form." Rupert Hawksley, The Telegraph
"A seriously strong show... Gamble is a powerful, compelling orator." Paul Fleckney, Chortle
"A hugely likeable performer…an excellent comic." Paul Whitelaw, The Scotsman
"Superb stand-up." Ben Williams, Time Out
Part of Leicester Comedy Festival.
After a sell out in Spring 2020 and due to popular demand Stewart Lee returns to De Montfort Hall.
Double-bill of two new 60 minute sets, back to back nightly from "the world’s greatest living stand-up" (The Times), including new material for 2022.
The first half, Snowflake, will be heavily rewritten in the light of the two years the show has been laid off, looking at how the Covid-Brexit era has impacted on the culture war declared on lovely woke snowflakes by horrible people.
The second half, Tornado, questions Stew’s position in the comedy marketplace after Netflix mistakenly listed his show as reports of sharks falling from the skies are on the rise again. Nobody on the Eastern Seaboard is safe.
"Lee remains one of the best stand-ups in the country." ***** Metro
"The world’s best living stand-up comedian." Dominic Maxwell, The Times
"There’s no-one else to touch him." ***** Mark Wareham, Mail On Sunday
"He makes stand-up almost a moral pursuit, that makes the usual (and more popular) stand-ups seem crude and obvious." Alan Bennet, London Review Of Books.
"Proper, vicious prejudice - a self-proclaimed inhabitant of the moral high ground." Sarah Vine, Daily Mail
"A pot-bellied Bernard Manning for snowflakes." Tony Parsons, The Sun
"If I could bring one extinct thing back to life it would be Stewart Lee’s sense of humour." Frankie Boyle, BBC2
"The opposite of what really good comedy should be." Toby Young, Radio 4
Part of Leicester Comedy Festival.
After a sell-out in Spring 2020 and due to popular demand Dillie Keane, Adèle Anderson and Liza Pulman are returning to De Montfort Hall.
With a selection of old favourites, songs you haven’t heard before and some you wish you’d never heard in the first place. The songs are hilarious and topical - the glamour is unstoppable.
With three Olivier Award nominations and over 25 million YouTube and Facebook hits for Cheap Flights and their incredibly rude Christmas song how can you possibly miss them?
"Cabaret Heaven." ***** Metro
"Outrageous... seductive." **** Guardian
"I can’t recommend this show highly enough." ***** Mail on Sunday
"Hilarious." **** Telegraph
"Engages the brain as well as the funny-bone." ***** Times
Having previously denounced partnership, Katherine has since married her first love, accidentally. A lot has changed for everyone and we can look forward to hearing Katherine Ryan’s hilarious new perspectives on life, love, and what it means to be Missus.
"A master at using his outsider status. Dazzlingly funny." The Times
"He’s German but he means well." Some bloke on Twitter
Jimmy's latest show contains jokes about all kinds of terrible things. Terrible things that might have affected you or people you know and love. But they're just jokes - they are not the terrible things. Having political correctness at a comedy show is like having health and safety at a rodeo.
Now you've been warned, buy a ticket.
These are the new rescheduled dates
Thursday 8 July 2021 to Saturday 26 February 2022
Thursday 27 May 2021 rescheduled to Wednesday 13 April 2022
Friday 28 May 2021 rescheduled to Friday 22 April 2022
All tickets, including pre-booked venue parking, will remain valid for the new date. If you need to contact us to discuss your booking please email dmh-office@leicester.gov.uk
Control is a new show from Nish Kumar, the host of the Mash Report and one of the Guardian’s Top Fifty Comedians of the 21st Century. As seen on Live at the Apollo, Taskmaster, Netflix’s Comedians of the World, QI, Conan and The News.
"Kumar is the smartest, and often the silliest, political comic we’ve got: acute, furious and often the ridiculous fall guy of his own jokes." The Guardian
"One of the best young comedians we have." The Times
Photo credit - Matt Stronge
Critically acclaimed comedian Chris Ramsey is hitting the road for his biggest ever stand-up tour yet. Having filled venues across the country including The Newcastle Metro Arena (twice) don’t miss your chance to catch him live on stage while you can.
His stand-up special Approval Needed is available to stream on Amazon Prime now and alongside his wife Rosie he is also the co-host of the no.1 hit podcast Shagged. Married. Annoyed.
Downloaded a phenomenal 60 million times to date, Chris and Rosie won the Global Award’s Best Podcast Award, and British Podcast Award Listeners Choice in 2020, their brand new book launched in autumn 2020 reaching number one on both Amazon and the Sunday Times Best Seller charts.
"A brilliantly engaging natural storyteller." Evening Standard
"Spinning blokey pub banter and unpretentious patter into stand-up gold." The Guardian Guide
"Engaging and incisive." The Independent on Sunday
These are the new rescheduled dates
Friday 5 March 2021 rescheduled to Wednesday 30 March 2022
Saturday 6 March rescheduled to Thursday 31 March 2022
All tickets, including pre-booked venue parking, will remain valid for the new date. If you need to contact us to discuss your booking please email dmh-office@leicester.gov.uk
Message from Chris Ramsey: "Gutted and so sorry to announce my spring 2021 dates are being rescheduled to the following year. It’s been a difficult decision, but feels like it’s for the best."
Following the sell-out 2019 tour of National Trevor, the comedian, broadcaster, writer, campaigner and all-round good egg, returns to over 35 UK theatres with her brand-new show, Next Slide Please …
In an evening of warmth, love and laughter, Sandi will explore reasons to be cheerful after many long months of coronacoaster gloom.
Expect fascinatingly funny facts, silly jokes and a quick-fire Q&A.
(Don't expect handstands, ministerial behaviour or impressions of Chris Whitty)
Book early!
"A breath of fresh air ... lots of fun." ★★★★ The Times
"Wonderfully sharp." Time Out
"Laden with laughs." Guardian
"Never fails to delight and entertain." ★★★★ Mail on Sunday
His first tour in years promises to be packed with more jokes, more comedy anecdotes and more inappropriate and arguably disturbing paintings, all in the hope of answering the age old question: How do you Lycett? How do you Lycett?
The hilarious Sarah Millican is back on tour with a Bobby Dazzler of a new stand-up show.
In this, her sixth international tour, you’ll learn about what happens when your mouth seals shut, how to throw poo over a wall, trying to lose weight but only losing the tip of your finger, a surprisingly funny smear test, and how truly awful a floatation tank can actually be.
Sarah has spent the last year writing jokes and growing her backside. She can’t wait to get back on the road and make you laugh.
Will the recycling be put out on the right day? Who is going to smooth over the top of the margarine? How many lights are on upstairs when everybody is downstairs?
Watch Jon pretend that these aren't his foremost concerns as he leaves home on his first tour since the last one.
Best known as a team captain on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Cats Countdown (Channel 4), host of Dave’s Ultimate Worrier, and upcoming sitcom Meet the Richardsons. As well as Would I Lie To You (BBC One), Have I Got News For You (BBC One), Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow (BBC One), and Taskmaster (Dave).
"Whip-smart comedy... His mind is extraordinary." GQ
"Moany old brilliance." Metro
"A wildly funny whinge of volcanic frustrations." **** The Guardian
This is the new rescheduled date from Thursday 18 November 2021.
All tickets, including pre-booked venue parking, will remain valid for the new date. If you need to contact us to discuss your booking please email dmh-office@leicester.gov.uk