Featuring menopause, tragedy, and winding up in a mental institution

Bridget Christie, Ed Byrne, Ruby Wax and Andy Hamilton have all announced new UK tour dates today.

Christie is to play a new batch of more than 50 dates of her latest show Who Am I? from September to December. The show – her 13th – originally started touring in 2021 and is described as ‘a menopause laugh-a-minute with a confused, furious, sweaty lady who is annoyed by everything’.

Byrne has revealed a new show, Tragedy Plus Time, which is described as ‘mining the most tragic event in his life for laughs’ – although do not go into details of what that incident was.

Wax is to go on tour with I’m Not As Well As I Thought I Was this autumn, a tie-in with her book of the same named based on a series of potentially life-changing journeys she embarked on last year.

She went swimming with humpback whales in the Dominican Republic,; joined a Christian monastery, worked in a refugee camp in Greece and  did a silent 30-day mindfulness retreat in California.

But she said: ‘I wanted to find meaning, peace, happiness - the stuff we’re all chasing. However, after some transcendent experiences, I ended up in a mental institution. Obviously, I didn’t find what I was looking for.’

Tickets go on sale on Monday

Finally, News Quiz and Have I Got News For You regular Hamilton has announced ten ‘evening with…’ events this summer f promising ‘comic reflection, reminiscence and revelation’

Previously this week Gyles Brandreth, impressionist Debra Stephenson, and Twitch streamer TommyInnit also announced tours for 2023.

Chortle has listings of 140 other comedy tours here.

Published: 3 Mar 2023