Also first tour for Edinburgh best newcomer Urooj Ashfaq

He’s already the hardest-working man in comedy – and now Jimmy Carr is packing in twice as many shows into his next stand-up tour.

The star will be playing two shows every night of his forthcoming Laughs Funny tour – which takes in almost 90 theatre across the UK.

And that will be followed by 11 arena dates, with a more conventional one show per night.

Even with his prodigious TV output, Carr rarely takes a break from touring.  He’s currently on the road with his Terribly Funny 2.0 show, the first incarnation of which started in 2019, pausing only for the Covid pandemic.

The last UK night of that tour is on February 5 in Northampton, then he heads to the US for six weeks of dates, before returning home to launch his new Laughs Funny show. It runs from May 1, 2024, through to the end of December 2025.

And as if that’s not enough, Chortle understands he’ll be adding more dates later.

Tickets are currently being sold to fans on his mailing list, with a release of Ticketmaster tickets at 10am tomorrow before the tour goes on general sale at 10am on Friday.

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Meanwhile, Indian comic Urooj Ashfaq has also announced her debut UK tour for Oh No!, the show which won her the best newcomer award at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.

She is currently performing it at Soho Theatre, where she will return for  two weeks from January 8, followed by a nine-date tour to Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leicester, Coventry, Manchester, Bristol, Milton Keynes, Birmingham, and Leeds.

The 28-year-old from Mumbai had not performed stand-up in English before bringing this show, about  cultural differences, her experiences in therapy and her parents’ divorce, to the UK in the run-up to the Fringe.

Tickets go on sale at 11am on Friday.  Urooj Ashfaq tour dates.

Also, Chris McCausland has added new dates to his 2024 Yonks! tour, and Connor Burns has handed a handful of extra shows to his debut tour Vertigo.

Published: 1 Nov 2023