Peter Kay has announced his first live tour in 12 years.
Tickets will go on sale for the UK concerts at 10am on November 12 from his website, following an announcement on the comedian’s Twitter account.
Kay, whose tour kicks off at the Manchester AO Arena on December 2, said: “It’s great to be back doing what I love to do, standup 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 start from £35. The same price they were on my previous tour in 2010.” Kay hit the Guinness World Records for this tour with the best-selling set of all time, playing to over 1.2 million people.
In an accompanying video to promote his new dates, the comedian carries a roll of carpet and explains the tour to a fan in a vehicle.
It includes her famous line “Garlic Bread: It’s the Future” and references her Mum Wants a Bungalow Tour in 2002.
The tour includes dates in Birmingham, Liverpool, Leeds, Belfast, Newcastle, Dublin, Cardiff and Glasgow.
His career will end on August 11, 2023 at the Utilita Arena in Sheffield.
The tour was announced during an advert break on ITV’s I’m A Celebrity… on Sunday night. A poster for the event showed Kay holding a sign that read “Better late than never” and described a ticket to her shows as an “ideal Christmas present”.
Following the announcement, Kay’s official website appeared to crash briefly with the surge in online traffic.
In late 2017, the comedian canceled his first live tour in eight years due to “unforeseen family circumstances.” I had been planning to tour the UK for over a year.
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Kay has been largely out of the spotlight since a surprise appearance at a charity screening of her Car Share series in 2018.
The Bolton-born comedian returned in January 2021 when he appeared on BBC Radio 2 to talk to presenter Cat Deeley about his love of music, mixtapes and the musical Mamma Mia!.
In August last year, he appeared at two benefit concerts at Manchester’s Apollo to raise money for 22-year-old Laura Nuttall, who has an aggressive type of brain cancer called glioblastoma multiforme.
Kay rose to fame with the mockumentary series That Peter Kay Thing and later mastermind shows like Phoenix Nights and Car Share.