Stand-up comedy listings. These line-ups are as accurate as we can make them, but things change, and it may be worth checking before you travel.
Scott Bennett: Blood Sugar Baby
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Date: Wed 16 Jul 2025
Venue: Barnard Castle Witham Hall
Price: £18
Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Hal Cruttenden: Can Dish It Out But Can't Take It
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Date: Fri 31 Oct 2025
Venue: Hexham Queens Hall Arts Centre
Price: £20
Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Hal Cruttenden: Can Dish It Out But Can't Take It
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Date: Sat 1 Nov 2025
Venue: Barnard Castle Witham Hall
Price: £20
Show starts: 20:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Hal Cruttenden: Can Dish It Out But Can't Take It
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Date: Sun 2 Nov 2025
Venue: Newcastle Stand
Price: £20
Show starts: 20:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Sat 14 Jun 2025
Venue: Sunderland Empire
Price: Please contact venue or promoters
Show starts: 20:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Sat 14 Jun 2025
Venue: Barnard Castle Witham Hall
Price: Please contact venue or promoters
Show starts: 20:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Danny McLoughlin, Frankie Boyle, Laura Smyth, Sol Bernstein
Date: Sun 15 Jun 2025
Venue: Yarm Princess Alexandra Auditorium
Price: £35.00
Ripping Yarms Comedy Club
Show starts: 19:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Danny McLoughlin, Frankie Boyle, Sol Bernstein, Laura Smyth
Date: Sun 15 Jun 2025
Venue: Yarm Princess Alexandra Auditorium
Price: £35
Show starts: 19:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Chris Washington, Frankie Boyle, MC Hammersmith, Matt Reed
Date: Sun 15 Jun 2025
Venue: Billingham Forum Theatre
Price: £35
The Comedy Forum
Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Mon 16 Jun 2025
Venue: Newcastle Cluny 2
Price: Please contact venue or promoters
Plus: Al Stevenson, Fran Best
Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Hilarity Bitesize
Date: Thu 19 Jun 2025
Venue: Newton Aycliffe Steam Machine Brewing Co
Price: £10
Comics: Mike Milligan, Elaine Robertson
New act & new material night. Plus: Ant Dewson
Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Danny Baker: Aye Aye! Ahoy Hoy!
Date: Fri 20 Jun 2025
Venue: Newcastle Tyne Theatre & Opera House
Price: Please contact venue or promoters
Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Fri 20 Jun 2025
Venue: Sunderland The Fire Station
Price: £25
Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Sat 21 Jun 2025
Venue: Durham Gala Theatre
Price: Please contact venue or promoters
Show starts: 20:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Tim Minchin: Songs The World Will Never Hear
Date: Tue 24 Jun 2025
Venue: Newcastle City Hall
Price: Please contact venue or promoters
Date: Thu 26 Jun 2025
Venue: Stockton-on-Tees Arc
Price: £16.00
Show starts: 20:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Bill Murray, Jan Vogler and Friends
Date: Fri 27 Jun 2025
Venue: Gateshead Glasshouse International Centre for Music
Price: £50.00
Readings and music
Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Ingrid Dahle, Tom Wrigglesworth, Lee Kyle
Date: Fri 27 Jun 2025
Venue: Bishop Auckland Town Hall
Price: £11
Hilarity Bites Comedy Club
Show starts: 20:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Freddy Quinne, Kate Lucas, Mark Nelson
Date: Fri 27 Jun 2025
Venue: Stockton-on-Tees Arc
Price: £17.00
Catch 22 Comedy Club
Show starts: 20:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Freddy Quinne, Kate Lucas, Mark Nelson
Date: Fri 27 Jun 2025
Venue: Stockton-on-Tees Arc
Price: £17.00
Catch 22 Comedy Club
Show starts: 20:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Rhys Darby: The Legend Returns
Date: Fri 27 Jun 2025
Venue: Newcastle Tyne Theatre & Opera House
Price: Please contact venue or promoters
Show starts: 20:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Matthew Wheelwright: Built Different
Date: Sun 29 Jun 2025
Venue: Newcastle Stand
Price: £12 (£10 concs)
Part of the New Direction series of solo shows from up-and-coming comics, directed by Lee Kyle.
Show starts: 20:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Mon 30 Jun 2025
Venue: Newcastle Stand-Up Live
Price: £12
Show starts: 20:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
5 Mistakes That Changed History
Date: Thu 3 Jul 2025
Venue: Middlesbrough Town Hall
Price: Please contact venue or promoters
Elaine Robertson, Paul 'Silky' White, Lee Kyle
Date: Sat 5 Jul 2025
Venue: Darlington Forum Music Centre
Price: £12
Hilarity Bites Comedy Club. Plus: Dom Hatton-Woods
Show starts: 20:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Matt Chorley: Making A Meal Of It
Date: Tue 8 Jul 2025
Venue: Newcastle Stand
Price: Please contact venue or promoters
Show starts: 20:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Double preview
Date: Thu 10 Jul 2025
Venue: Newcastle Cluny 2
Price: Please contact venue or promoters
Deage Paxton: Immature and Dean Coughlin: Oblivious
Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Thu 10 Jul 2025
Venue: Darlington Forum Music Centre
Price: £12
Show starts: 20:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Wed 16 Jul 2025
Venue: Darlington Hippodrome
Price: £16
Hilarity Bites presents tour preview shows
Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Chris Brooker, Daliso Chaponda
Date: Thu 17 Jul 2025
Venue: Newton Aycliffe Steam Machine Brewing Co
Price: £10
Hilarity Bites preview shows
Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
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