11:49am Friday 19th February 2010
By Charles Hutchinson
TIM Vine’s partner in comedy on Not Going Out, Lee Mack, plays a sold-out show at the Grand Opera House, York, on Sunday night at 8pm.
He is not alone in pulling in a full house at the Cumberland Street theatre. So too have Dave Gorman tonight, Sean Lock’s Lockipedia on March 4, Irishman Dara O’Briain on April 18 and acerbic Scotsman Frankie Boyle on May 12 and 13.
Jimmy Carr’s third visit to York with his Rapier Wit show on March 21 has sold so well that he has added another night on May 11, and the suddenly ubiquitous Liverpudlian John Bishop is following suit by complementing his nearly sold-out debut on March 24 with a newly added return visit on May 3.
First up, tonight at 8pm, is Dave Gorman’s Sit Down, Pedal, Pedal, Stop And Stand Up Tour, his account of simultaneously cycling between the four corners of the British mainland while also playing a gig each night: a total of 1,500 miles, 33 days, 32 gigs, four lighthouses and one bike as he ticked off Lizard Point, Lowestoft Ness, Ardnamurchan Point and Dunnet Head.
After these one-man-and-his-bike shows of last year, Gorman, right, has put away the bicycle but is continuing a tour that marks his return to stand-up in the wake of five years of documentary comedy shows.
Box office: 0844 847 2322 or online at www.grandoperahouseyork.org.uk.
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