5 top comedians you won’t want to miss at The Atkinson in Southport in 2023

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Rob Newman Live On Stage! 

Saturday 18 February 2023. 7:30pm.
£17 / £10 concessions.

Fresh from his BBC Radio 4 series Rob Newman On Air, the award-winning comedian’s new show is a stand-up epic that goes from cave paintings to car-free cities to ask: Who are we? Where are we going? And how do spiders fly? Rob Newman tells a story of how dancing in step saved prehistoric humans and how new scientific discoveries may help us take the right steps to a life after oil.

Recommended age 14+

Alfie Moore – Fair Cop Unleashed

Friday 23 June 2023. 7:30pm.

Join BBC Radio 4’s cop-turned-comedian Alfie Moore for his latest stand-up tour show.

Fair Cop Unleashed is based on a dramatic real-life incident from Alfie’s police casebook. Relive with him the thrilling ups and downs of the night a mysterious clown came to town and more than one life ended up in the balance. It was no laughing matter – but this show certainly is! Enjoy Alfie’s unique brand of humour hilariously woven together with his personal insights into his life on the front-line of the police force. It’d be a crime to miss it!

Recommended age 14+

Zoe Lyons: Bald Ambition Tour

Saturday 22 April 2023. 8pm.
£16.

Zoe Lyons has kept herself busy in the last couple of years by having what can best be described as a monumental midlife crisis. It involved buying a sports car, having a brief marital separation and running a 100k ultra marathon which really didn’t end well. Along the way her hair decided the best thing to do was abandon ship. It ain’t easy being a middle aged woman: try doing it with a combover. Thankfully Zoe has been able to explore the funny side of all these twists and turns. It’s time to sell the silly car and try and put the wheels back on her life.

Zoe is the host of BBC2’s Lightning. She’s known as a star of Live at the Apollo and a regular on Have I Got News for You (BBC1), QI (BBC2), and Mock the Week (BBC2). Other credits include Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (BBC2), Stand Up and Deliver (C4), House of Games (BBC2). Zoe is an immediately recognisable voice on Radio 4 as a regular on The News Quiz, Just a Minute, The Unbelievable Truth and The Now Show, and also co-hosts Frank Skinner’s show on Absolute Radio.

Recommended age 14+

Justin Moorhouse: Stretch & Think

Saturday 17 June 2023. 8pm.
£15 full price / £5 unwaged -specifically for Jobseekers.

Justin is back: still funny, yet middle aged.

A brand new show that may contain: Yoga, getting  older, Madonna, shoplifters, Labradoodles, middle-aged cyclists, The Menopause, running, hating football fans but loving football, not drinking, funerals, is Tapas a rip off?, Captain Tom, Droylsden, the environment, self-improvement, ruining a sexual position, electric car charging spots used by doggers, nursery graduation, horses, Stig look-a-likes, home cooked food in places that aren’t your own home, the odd advantages of fundamental religions, the gym, shop door etiquette.

And he’s got a new suit. Come, it’ll be fun.

Recommended age 14+

Dan Nightingale’s Special

Saturday 30 September 2023. 8pm.
£16

Dan has spent the last two years changing the comedy industry from the inside out, paving new career paths for himself and many others; whilst being one half of the smash-hit podcast Have A Word.

Following on from the triple-extended 2022 tour Smasher; 2023 will see him hit the road again to show even more people what 18,000 monthly patreons, 55,000 YouTube subscribers and one million monthly download & viewers already know – that Dan Nightingale’s Special.

Recommended age 16+