New tours for Russell Howard, Mo Gilligan...
...Laura Smyth, Celya AB and Lorna Rose Treen
Russell Howard, Mo Gilligan, Laura Smyth, Celya AB and Lorna Rose Treenhave all announced tours today.
Howard has announced 74 shows across the UK and Ireland, taking in four nights at the London Palladium and a three-night homecoming run in Bristol.
The show is entitled Don’t Tell The Algorithm – a reference to the fact that phones will be banned from the rooms to ensure ‘no distractions, just humans and jokes’
Over his career, the comic has sold more than 2 million tickets worldwide with his last tour, called simply Russell Howard Live, ending up selling 435,000 tickets across 237 gigs in 30 countries.
Meanwhile, Gilligan has announced his biggest tour, The Mo You Know.
It comprises 27 UK dates in early 2026 as well as other shows in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, UAE, Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Finland, Netherlands, France, Belgium, Estonia, Latvia, Germany, and Portugal.
British-based French comic Celya AB takes her fourth solo show We Must Stop Meeting Like This across the UK next September and October.
In it, she ‘explores breaking free from shame, and what happens when you do’.
Producers Berks Nest say: ‘Have you ever forensically over-thought your life choices? Are they all somehow connected to a passing comment your Spanish teacher made when you were 15? Has it impacted everything from your love life to your career?’
The comic says: ‘I’m really excited to go back on the road for another AB Voyage. This is my biggest one yet, with the biggest solo show I’ve ever done in London’ – at the Bloomsbury Theatre.
Laura Smyth’s tour is called Born Aggy and is about what happens if ‘all your dreams come true and you’ve still got the hump?’
The East Londoner has had a successful comedy career – including appearing on Live at The Apollo twice – yet, says the blurb for the show, ‘she still thinks everyone’s a dickhead… maybe she was just born aggy.’
Lorna Rose Treen has also announced her debut tour for 2026, Now That’s What I Call Characters.
The show promises some of the best sketches from her critically-acclaimed live shows, plus some new characters too as she mines TV, film and music tropes such as Twin Peaks, Love Actually, Sabrina Carpenter and Normal People.
» Lorna Rose Treen tour dates
Early tickets for the first four tours go on sale on Wednesday (and on Thursday for Treen) then all are on general sale from 10am Friday.
Published: 22 Sep 2025
