Tickets will go on sale for the UK gigs at 10am on 12 November from his website, following an announcement on the comedian’s Twitter account. Kay, whose tour will start on 2 December at the Manchester AO Arena, said: “It’s good to get back to what I love doing best, stand-up comedy and if there’s ever a time people need a laugh it’s now. “And with the cost of living at an all-time high, ticket prices are starting from £35. The same price they were on my previous tour in 2010.” In an accompanying video, the comic is carrying a roll of carpet and tells a fan in a vehicle about the tour. It includes his famous line “garlic bread – it’s the future” and makes reference to his Mum Wants a Bungalow Tour in 2002. The tour includes dates in Birmingham, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Belfast, Newcastle, Dublin and Glasgow. In late 2017, the comedian cancelled his first live tour in eight years due to “unforeseen family circumstances”. He had been scheduled to tour the UK for more than a year. Kay has been largely out of the spotlight since a surprise appearance at a charity screening of his series Car Share in 2018. The Bolton-born comic made a brief return in January 2021 when he appeared on BBC Radio 2 to speak to presenter Cat Deeley about his love of music, mixtapes and the musical Mamma Mia. Get our weekly pop culture email, free in your inbox every Friday Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. In August last year, he appeared at two charity gigs at the Apollo in Manchester to raise money for Laura Nuttall, 22, who has an aggressive type of brain cancer called glioblastoma multiforme. Kay rose to fame with mockumentary series That Peter Kay Thing and later masterminded shows including Phoenix Nights and Car Share.
