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He stress tests a new hour of book-flavoured jokes, touching on Where's Wally?, airport thrillers, Dr Seuss, performative male readers and Sylvia Plath's fig tree. He may also read bits of a book he is writing. 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His last UK tour ran for two and a half years across 378 dates, with people laughing a lot and coming back, and his videos have hundreds of millions of views. Now he is doing it all again with a brand new show of all new jokes and utterly splendid filth. Come along, it'll be fun — but don't bring the kids.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/gary-delaney-gary-on-laughing-61165/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c16ea87ef3a9b6dc15a43156bef79cf3468e5adec4eeff54d05f99b24a6f4cf2-600.webp"}, {"title": "Al Murray: All You Need Is Guv", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "London Palladium", "address": "Argyll Street 7-8, W1F 7TF London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://lwtheatres.co.uk/whats-on/", "category": "comedy", "tags": ["comedy/stand-up"], "description": "Al Murray: All You Need Is Guv is a stand-up comedy show at The London Palladium. Al Murray performs as his character the Pub Landlord, the globe's favourite pub landlord, offering his Common Sense hot-takes with a fresh pint in hand. The show follows a sell-out 138 date tour and includes a 'Splash Zone' for audience members willing to wear ponchos. 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It was written by original Mischief team members Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, the Olivier Award-winners behind The Play That Goes Wrong. The ill-fated Cornley Amateur Drama Society stages Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, but hilarious problems with miscommunications, delays, missing actors and a fight over the lead role destroy the much-loved story of Ebeneezer Scrooge. 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Comedian Andrew Ryan, known as a host of the Q Radio Breakfast Show and from appearances on The Blame Game and Comedy Central Live, returns after a sell-out 2024 tour. In the show he tells tales of pet ownership, misreading rooms and his frustration with the world, claiming to be happy as a newlywed while making bewildering decisions. 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Past acts have included Neil Patrick Harris, Natalie Palamides, Mae Martin and Randy Feltface, and the show has packed out rooms at festivals and venues from Glastonbury to Off-Broadway in New York City. 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