Funny Way To Be Comedy

08/01/2025

...and one of them is in Barnard Castle -14 June to be precise. Ticket link in comments.

08/01/2025

Neil Delamere has a few tickets left for his January shows. He's not with us until November and sales are looking like it could go that way too for us too.

A few left at back of balcony for the lovely TLT Theatre Drogheda but all other Jan tour dates are full. It's been fun so far

07/01/2025

Kai’s tour show is selling out all over the uk. We still have some tickets left so whizz over to our web site and grab yours.

January fully sold out but still some rapidly disappearing tickets left later on in the year

06/01/2025

Come to The Witham in Barnard Castle on Saturday 25 January (to see if Carl Hutchinson is wearing one sock or two! - you had to see the reel to get that!!) Funny Way To Be: Carl Hutchinson "Today Years Old"

06/01/2025

Geoff Norcott is heading to us for Funny Way To Be - Geoff Norcott: Work In Progress 5 April. (The Witham, Barnard Castle).

06/01/2025

Part 2….So funny. Great work from Chris Washington - Comedian. And Seann Walsh.

06/01/2025

Top business start up advice from Ignacio Lopez. He will no doubt be available for workshops when he comes to Funny Way To Be - Ignacio Lopez "Señor Self-Destruct".

A quick guide if you’re thinking about launching your own business:

1. Ask all your friends & family if they would buy your product/pay for your services. This is vital market research. Make a spreadsheet of their responses, get honest feedback.

2. Put £10k to one side, trust me; you’re going to need this later.

3. Do a simple search for similar businesses already in the area. Check out how much they charge, what do you think their overheads are?

4. Try to gauge how big their client base is. Do they have online reviews? What can you do to improve on their service? Make a list of ways you can be competitive.

5. Come up with a catchy business name. Something memorable and fun. Like ‘Lawn & Order: Artificial Grass’

6. Invest in high quality branding, uniform and marketing - £2k. This will establish your credibility from the offset.

7. Purchase a fake passport - £1.5k on the dark web.

8. Hire a group of out of town bastards to really f**k up the other competing businesses in your area - ransacking, theft, general terrorising. - £300.

9. Pay some internet dweebs to leave bad reviews on competitors social media and positive buzz on yours. - £60

10. Your business has been running for 3 months. It’s going ok, but it’s much harder than you thought it would be, and Kevin, Sean & Claire still haven’t come round and bought from you. They said they would. Who the f**k else are they buying artificial grass from?

They f**king said they’d “definitely”buy from you. It’s right f**king there in the Google doc you had them fill in. Kevin’s been avoiding you. Why are they mugging you off?!

11. Call round. Kevin said he was having a barbecue this Saturday on Whatsapp. You weren’t invited, it popped up on Dean’s phone when he was showing you the video of that seagull attacking people in the drive-thru Costa.

12. Call into the BP, fill 5 cans with petrol on the way to Kevin’s. - £114.68.

13. Sneak a look through the fence. That piece of s**t Kevin’s had the lawn replaced. Good stuff too. That’s Zaragoza 30mm. Luxury. F**k him and his BBQ. Cover the fence in petrol. Light it up.

14. Wait for the sounds of BBQ enjoyment to turn to shock and panic. Stand by the front door and shoot Kevin in the kneecap when he exits the house with the hose.

Oh… sorry…

7b. Buy a gun on the dark web too. - £3k.

15. Take the rest of the money and flee the country.

16. Ah, for f**k sake! Lanzarote? What kind of a f**king idiot goes on the run to Lanzarote? The police had you in custody in hours. You absolute plum. I hope you bought plenty of duty free ci******es.

17. You can trade ci******es for favours in prison.

For sale: lawnorder .biz

04/01/2025

03/01/2025

A clip fromJustin Moorhouse’s last show. Come see his new show in Barnard Castle on Saturday 22 February. Tickets from our web site or the Witham Box office. Funny Way To Be - Justin Moorhouse: The Greatest Performance of My Life

03/01/2025

Ignacio Lopez is coming to Barnard Castle Funny Way To Be - Ignacio Lopez "Señor Self-Destruct". Tickets from our web site. Grande!

03/01/2025

Great article in the Teesdale Mercury (many thanks to the team there) about our Spring season with a lovely gallery of some of the acts peforming.
Carl Hutchinson Comedy Tom Stade Funny Way To Be: Mark Thomas "Gaffa Tapes" Connor Burns Comedy Zoe Lyons Mark Steel Justin Moorhouse Funny Way To Be - Ignacio Lopez "Señor Self-Destruct" Funny Way To Be: Russell Hicks "Happy To Be Here" Chris Cantrill. Tickets are from just £15 to £22.

03/01/2025

We are incredibly fortunate to have Mark Steel coming to Barnard Castle to perform the first two dates (12th and 13th February) on his what we believe will be seen as one of the best comedy shows of 2025 (not marketing hype, we have seen it in preview already). Tickets are selling fast for both shows but there are some lovely seats still availble (the white ones) for both nights at just £18 each if you'd like to grab some.

02/01/2025

Larry Dean is heading to Barnard Castle with Funny Way To Be - Larry Dean "Dodger" on 14 June. Here he is in action with a previous show.

01/01/2025

Mark Steel opens his brand new show with two evenings in Barnard Castle on 12th and 13th February. A few tickets left for each if you hurry. Mark recently appeared on Dessert Island Discs. Have a listen, everything Mark does is funny.

Mark Steel, comedian, shares the soundrack of his life with Lauren Laverne.

01/01/2025

Connor Burns Comedy is returning to Barnard Castle on 7 February, just over a month away now. One of the acts we predict will hit the big time in the next few years. Catch him in an intimate venue while you can. Funny Way To Be: Connor Burns - 1994