A COMEDY superstar has announced he will be coming to Cumbria with his highly anticipated brand-new stand up show.

Right Here, Right Now will be John Bishop’s eighth stand up show and will see him perform across the UK, Ireland, America, Canada and Europe.

The comedian announced his tour dates on September 14, revealing the show would be visiting Kendal and Carlisle.

The 53-year-old Liverpudlian funnyman admitted he could not wait to be back on the road and performing to audiences once again.

Critics have already given the show rave reviews, with the Daily Telegraph, The Times, Evening Standard and the Daily Mirror all giving the show four out of five stars.

The Daily Telegraph called the show ‘Frankly hilarious’, with the The Times adding ‘Bishop has funny bones’, The Daily Mirror saying ‘John Bishop has taken on the mantle of Britain’s top comic’ and the Evening Standard saying ‘Two hours of observational humour delivered so skilfully it looks effortless.’

Becoming one of the UK’s most popular comedians Bishop has achieved huge success with a number of comedy, entertainment and documentary shows including, 'John Bishop’s Australia’(BBC1), ‘John Bishop’s Britain’ (BBC1), ‘John Bishop’s Only Joking’ (Sky1),‘The John Bishop Show’ (BBC1), ‘The John Bishop Christmas Show’ (BBC1), ‘John Bishop’s Gorilla Adventure’ (ITV1) and more recently ‘John Bishop’s Ireland’ for ITV1 as well as four mammoth series of the critically acclaimed ‘John Bishop: In Conversation With…’ which saw him chatting, one to one with some of the world’s biggest, household names.

John Bishop will be performing Right Here, Right Now at Kendal Leisure Centre on November 6 and tickets will be on sale from 10am on Friday at betterboxoffice.co.uk, or by calling 0333 006 5571.

He will also be at The Sands Centre, Carlisle on November 7, 2021 and tickets will be available from 10am on Friday at thesandscentre.co.uk, or by calling 0333 066 5571.