Jon Richardson

2015-09-02T19:53:00.001+01:00

Dates in Amsterdam, Brussels, Oslo, Sandvika and Tromso this November on sale now!

THE CHANNEL 4 COMEDY GALA IN AID OF GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL CHILDREN’S CHARITY RETURNS TO THE O2 ON FRIDAY 15TH MAY 2015

2015-03-02T09:06:00.001+00:00

Ticket presale: Thursday 5th March 9am

Tickets go on general sale from 9am Friday 6th March.

‘Channel 4’s Comedy Gala Live At The O2’ in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity returns for a sixth year to London’s O2 arena, the world famous entertainment venue.

The amazing all star line up confirmed for the biggest annual comedy event of the year so far includes: Aisling Bea, Alan Carr, Jack Dee, Jason Byrne, Jonathan Ross, Jon Richardson, Josh Widdicombe, Katherine Ryan, Kevin Bridges, Michael McIntyre, Paul Chowdhry, Rich Hall, Rob Beckett, Romesh Ranganathan, Sara Pascoe, Sean Lock , Seann Walsh, Shappi Khorsandi, Warwick Davis with many more to be announced.

Jon hosts Live at the Apollo - Tonight on BBC1 at 10:35pm!!

2014-12-17T13:38:00.000+00:00

Nidiots of the world unite! Jon's DVD is out now.

2014-12-01T17:04:00.004+00:00

If you need a last minute stocking filler, it's small, it'll fit! http://amzn.to/1E1dmNF

Catch me on The One Show tonight at 7pm.

2014-11-25T11:37:00.000+00:00

I'll be chatting to the lovely Alex Jones and Matt Baker about my brand new DVD Nidiot Live, out on DVD and Blu-ray on 1st December. Also available on digital download now.

Extra date in Brighton just announced!

2014-10-17T12:17:00.002+01:00

28th November, Brighton Dome. Box office: 01273 709 709

Tickets: brightondome.org/

Jon Richardson Grows Up Tonight on Channel 4 at 10:20pm

2014-09-29T14:44:00.002+01:00

Jon Richardson Grows Up - 22nd Sept 10:35pm, Channel 4

2014-09-11T12:34:00.003+01:00

Can you buy happiness? Jon & Matt Forde get to grips with money in Jon Richardson Grows Up tonight at 10.35pm on Channel4

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/jon-richardson-grows-up

Three-part series in which comedian Jon Richardson and his friend Matt Forde face up to the adult realities of mortgages, marriage and parenthood

Jon on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown & Alan Carr: Chatty Man tonight!!

2014-09-09T10:22:00.000+01:00

If you can't wait for Jon Richardson Grows Up this Monday, catch Jon tonight on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Channel 4 at 9pm and with Matt Forde on Alan Carr: Chatty Man, Channel 4 at 10pm

FREE tickets to see Jon Richardson in London!!!

2014-07-08T12:58:00.002+01:00

FREE TICKETS to see Jon Richardson in London!!!

Jon will be performing a very special gig for his new Channel 4 show, “Jon Richardson Grows Up”, on the 28th August at Up the Creek, London.

For more details and how to apply for tickets please go to the SRO website http://www.sroaudiences.com/

Jon's gig at the Derby Assembly Rooms (24th May) has been cancelled

2014-04-16T16:48:00.003+01:00

Due to the fire at the Assembly Rooms on Friday 14th March Jon's gig will not be taking place.

Customers who have purchased tickets for the show will be reimbursed.

More information here: http://www.derbylive.co.uk/about-derby-live/news/assembly-rooms-update/

Jon to perform at the Channel 4 Comedy Gala

2014-02-27T14:16:00.000+00:00

The Channel 4 Comedy Gala in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity returns to the O2 on Friday 16th May.

Tickets on sale from 9am Friday 28th February

Back for a fifth year the Channel 4 Comedy Gala in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital returns to The O2 Arena with an all star cast from the world of comedy.

Join Jon plus Adam Hills, Alan Carr, Aisling Bea, Jack Dee, Jason Byrne, Jason Manford, Jo Brand, John Bishop, Jon Richardson, Jonathan Ross, Josh Widdicombe, Kevin Bridges, Lee Evans, Michael McIntyre, Paul Chowdhry, Sean Lock, Seann Walsh and many more as we raise money for a new operating theatre at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Show to be recorded for Channel 4

John Richardson Funny Magnet DVD Out Today!

2012-11-19T10:59:00.002+00:00

Buy now from Amazon: http://bit.ly/funny-magnet-dvd

Jon Richardson: A Little Bit OCD

2012-07-24T14:33:00.001+01:00

Tuesday, 24th July, Channel 4 , 10pm
Catch up on 4oD
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/jon-richardson-a-little-bit-ocd/4od

Channel 4 to send Jon on Hillbilly Holiday

2012-07-06T16:39:00.003+01:00

In a brand new series for Channel 4, comedians Sean Lock and Jon Richardson are kissing their urban creature comforts goodbye and setting off to explore the wilds of the US of A

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London Is Funny: Review – Jon Richardson, Funny Magnet

2012-04-19T10:01:00.002+01:00

Jon Richardson remains very, very good indeed – but who was that sitting in row G, asks Ben Clover?

If you were going to see one living, working stand-up do an hour show before you were extradited to another country and potentially jailed, which would it be?

It’s a matter of taste, but if your first choice wasn’t Jon Richardson and, due to a mix-up, you ended up going to see him, you’d still have done well. As you heard the prison door close behind you, you’d think: “Well, I saw one of the best live stand-ups there was to see in one of the evenings I had as a free man.”

Read the full review here

BIG NEWS: The Greatest Hits So Far Tour to be filmed for DVD

2012-04-18T16:24:00.004+01:00

24 HOUR PRE-SALE FOR JON RICHARDSON'S DVD RECORDING.

Due to an overwhelming public demand, the brilliant Jon Richardson will be recording his debut DVD at The Apollo, Shaftesbury Avenue on Sunday 9th September.

The host of Channel 4's Stand Up For The Week and team captain on 8 Out Of 10 Cats, Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and best-selling author will be taking his show across the UK from July 2012.

To get your tickets for the DVD record at the London Apollo twenty-four hours before general sale click on this link today

"The Greatest Hits So Far Tour" dates

Extra Funny Magnet Date
Sunday 4th November Salford Quays, The Lowry - 0843 208 6010

Evening Standard: Jon Richardson, Leicester Square Theatre - review

2012-04-18T15:25:00.000+01:00

A skilfully executed show where an impish Mr Misery picks the scabs of life.

A Twitter rumour was circulating during Jon Richardson’s opening night that Julian Assange was in the audience. If the WikiLeaks honcho was present it would have made perverse sense, one psychologically intriguing character watching another.

Read the full article here

Jon on TV

2012-04-18T14:27:00.001+01:00

Catch Jon on the new series of '8 Out Of 10 Cats' and hosting 'Stand Up For The Week' starting on Friday 27th April on Channel Four.

The Times: Jon Richardson at the Leicester Square Theatre, WC2

2012-04-18T11:51:00.004+01:00

It’s so easy to hate, isn’t it? But it’s hellishly hard to make your misanthropy as joyful an experience as Jon Richardson manages here. And make no mistake, Richardson has a problem with the messiness of existence. His list of intolerance includes mopey indie rockers, children, billionaires, festivals, Americans, couples, his friends and love. “It’s f***ing exhausting, life, isn’t it?” he chirrups after detailing some Sisyphean task or other — having to pay his bills, perhaps, or trying to persuade his flatmates to wash up properly.

This could easily be smug nihilism. Instead, Richardson lets us take pleasure in seeing our own gnarliest little gripes aired — while never forgetting to mention that his attitude is at least as wonky as the world he’s bemoaning. He sets out his stall at the start, promising us “my comical hatred, not actual jokes”. Yet while there’s nothing here to inspire a bidding war between Christmas-cracker factories, the softly smiling Richardson has the vital knack of making tightly organised, densely inventive lines play with apparently improvised ease.

He refers to his OCD tendencies: he’s stepped on his mike lead with his left foot, he tells us, so soon he will have to step on it with his right foot. Yet, whatever internal stratagems he’s using to keep the world at bay, he’s at ease with his unease. Richardson says he’s trying to be a better person and, crucially, there’s a warped sincerity to everything he says. It doesn’t take much scratching to see the romantic behind the cynic.

Only an idealist would note that the casual drinking sessions of youth become something you have to plan months ahead once you hit 30. Only someone who cared about love would deconstruct Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty so swiftly and acutely. And only a wildly confident comic would tell the best misogynist joke I’ve ever heard — and create the context to ensure it’s more a joke on him than on womankind.

Richardson will be hosting Stand Up For the Weekend on Fridays on Channel 4 from the end of the month. But in this two-hour show he’s got time to create his own slow groove, to mock the world and mock himself too. Catch this oddly warming masterclass in misery if you can.

Box office: 08448 733433, to Sat. Then touring to June 30

The Times - 18th April 2012
by Dominic Maxwell

Chortle: Jon Richardson is Britain's funniest man

2012-02-08T18:44:00.009+00:00

Jon Richardson has been named Funniest Man in this year’s Loaded Lafta awards.

Extra date added for Palace Theatre SOUTHEND

2012-01-12T14:54:00.007+00:00

14th March - Box Office: 01702 351135
www.southendtheatres.org.uk

Funny Magnet Spring Tour Dates

2012-01-05T19:14:00.007+00:00

Due to an overwhelming public demand, the brilliant Jon Richardson is back on tour in 2012. The new host of Channel 4’s Stand Up For The Week, team captain on 8 Out Of 10 Cats, Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and best-selling author will be taking his show, Funny Magnet across the UK from February 2012.

Discussing the everyday items that have a profound effect on his outlook, Funny Magnet sees Jon working his pessimism with some hilarious consequences, and as always with his loveable vivacious delivery.

'Sublimely brilliant, stunning....He is a comic right on the verge of greatness. If you haven't seen him yet get your finger out and sort it.' Time Out

'Destined for showbiz big-time' **** Evening Standard

'Jon Richardson is developing into a quietly sophisticated comedian who is at turns hilarious and disturbing and under no circumstances should you miss' **** The Mirror

Tour dates here

Stand Up For The Week Returns

2011-11-04T14:33:00.003+00:00

Jon hosts the new series and is joined by Rich Hall, Seann Walsh, Josh Widdicombe, Sara Pascoe and Paul Chowdhry, who discuss the week's biggest issues in sport, politics and celebrity news.

Friday 4th November, 11:10pm - 12am, Channel 4

Work in Progress Shows

2011-10-12T13:43:00.003+01:00

Laughing Boy Comedy Club are proud to announce six work in progress shows at The City Arts and Music Project, Old Street, London.

Starring Jon Richardson, Seann Walsh, Josh Widdicombe, Sara Pascoe and Paul Chowdhry.

All Tickets only £4.00 plus booking fee: laughingboycomedyclub.com

Mondays 31st Oct, 7th Nov, 14th Nov, 21st Nov, 28th Nov & 5th Dec.