THIS is not a Spoiler Alert, but the show is. Irish comedian Ed Bryne, co-star of BBC2's new series Dara And Ed’s Road To Mandalay, will be returning to the road this year with his biggest ever tour in a new outing called Spoiler Alert.

So big is the itinerary, in fact, that York will not welcome the late-September to March tour until the fourth last night, on March 21 2018, when he will play the Grand Opera House. By then, he will have visited Hull City Hall on December 7; Leeds City Varieties Music Hall on February 21 and 22 and Harrogate Royal Hall the next night.

"I originally intended to call the show 'I’ll Millennial You In A Minute', but my promoter considered the title 'off-puttingly baffling'. That’s my own chainsaw in the photo, by the way," says Byrne, no less bafflingly.

More helpfully, What's On can reveal that Byrne will be exploring the thin line between righteous complaining and brattish whining as he asks: "Are we right to be fed up or are we spoiled?"

The 45-year-old Dubliner will take this question, turn it upside down and shake it until the funny falls out. "Go on, spoil yourself," says the regular Mock The Week and Have I Got News For You panellist, who also has appeared in Comic Relief Bake Off 2015, The World’s Most Dangerous Roads and Dara And Ed's Big Adventure with fellow Irish humorist Dara O Briain.

Byrne last played the Grand Opera House in January 2016 on his Outside Looking In tour. He will perform a sold-out exclusive preview of Spoiler Alert at Selby Town Hall on July 26 at 7.30pm, as part of the 2017 Selby Arts Festival, in a one-hour warm-up for his Edinburgh Fringe run from August 2 to 27 at the Assembly George Square Theatre.

Tickets for Byrne's York gig cost £25.25 on 0844 871 3024 or at atgtickets.com/york; for Hull, 01482 300306 or hulltheatres.co.uk; Leeds, 0845 644 1881 or cityvarieties.co.uk; Harrogate, 01423 500500 or harrogatetheatre.co.uk