Improv stars to bring laughter and joyful silliness to Peterborough theatre
Get ready for an evening of sensational improvised comedy featuring TV favourite Paul Merton at The Cresset, in Peterborough, in the New Year.
The Have I Got News For You veteran is bringing the Paul Merton and Suki Webster’s Improv Show to the theatre on February 20 as part of a UK Autumn and Winter tour, following critically acclaimed seasons in London and Edinburgh.
Expect an evening of wonderfully unscripted cutting-edge comedy in a show full of fast, fabulously funny improvised games, scenes, stories and laugh out loud surrealism as these two masters of comedy
improvisation join forces with their old friend, improv virtuoso Mike McShane, and many other very special guests to create cascades of laughter and joyful silliness.
Paul is a resident guest on BBC Radio 4’s Just A Minute and is an established face on numerous TV shows. His Autobiography, Only When I Laugh reached the Sunday Times bestseller Top 10 and he has co-starred with Suki in Motorhoming with Paul Merton and Suki Webster for 2 series on Channel 5
Suki is a founder member of Paul Merton’s Improv Chums and has toured the world with them. She has also appeared in a West End run of One Word Improv with Eddie (Suzy) Izzard. In 2021 & 2023 Suki
co-starred in 2 series of Motorhoming with Paul Merton and Suki Webster on Channel 5.
Mike McShane has been lucky enough to live by improvising with friends and making friends by improvising live. He has appeared at the Menier Chocolate Factory in Little Shop of Horrors and Stephen
Sondheim’s Assassins, as well as Broadway with their production of La Cage Aux Folles.