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• Tue 28 Jun Woking, New Victoria Theatre Brydon, Mack & Mitchell - Town To Town Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Mon 27 Jun Woking, New Victoria Theatre Brydon, Mack & Mitchell - Town To Town Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Sun 26 Jun Woking, New Victoria Theatre Brydon, Mack & Mitchell - Town To Town Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Wed 15 Jun New Theatre Oxford Brydon, Mack & Mitchell - Town To Town Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Tue 14 Jun New Theatre Oxford Brydon, Mack & Mitchell - Town To Town Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Mon 13 Jun New Theatre Oxford Brydon, Mack & Mitchell - Town To Town Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Thu 9 Jun Ipswich, Regent Theatre Brydon, Mack & Mitchell - Town To Town Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Wed 8 Jun Ipswich, Regent Theatre Brydon, Mack & Mitchell - Town To Town Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Tue 7 Jun Ipswich, Regent Theatre Brydon, Mack & Mitchell - Town To Town Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Fri 27 May Glasgow, Theatre Royal Brydon, Mack & Mitchell - Town To Town Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Thu 26 May Glasgow, Theatre Royal Brydon, Mack & Mitchell - Town To Town Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Wed 25 May Glasgow, Theatre Royal Brydon, Mack & Mitchell - Town To Town Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Tue 24 May Edinburgh Playhouse Theatre Brydon, Mack & Mitchell - Town To Town Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Mon 23 May Edinburgh Playhouse Theatre Brydon, Mack & Mitchell - Town To Town Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Wed 18 May Halifax, Victoria Theatre Brydon, Mack & Mitchell - Town To Town Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Tue 17 May Halifax, Victoria Theatre Brydon, Mack & Mitchell - Town To Town Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Mon 16 May Halifax, Victoria Theatre Brydon, Mack & Mitchell - Town To Town Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Wed 11 May Torquay, Princess Theatre Brydon, Mack & Mitchell - Town To Town Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Tue 10 May Torquay, Princess Theatre Brydon, Mack & Mitchell - Town To Town Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Mon 9 May Torquay, Princess Theatre Brydon, Mack & Mitchell - Town To Town Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell

October 2019

• Thu 3 Oct Brighton Dome Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Wed 2 Oct Brighton Dome Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Tue 1 Oct Brighton Dome Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell

September 2019

• Mon 30 Sep Southend-on-Sea, Cliffs Pavilion Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Sun 29 Sep Southend-on-Sea, Cliffs Pavilion Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Sat 28 Sep Southend-on-Sea, Cliffs Pavilion Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Wed 25 Sep Cardiff, St David's Hall Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Tue 24 Sep Cardiff, St David's Hall Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Mon 23 Sep Cardiff, St David's Hall Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Sun 22 Sep Swansea Grand Theatre and Arts Wing Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Sat 21 Sep Swansea Grand Theatre and Arts Wing Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Fri 20 Sep Swansea Grand Theatre and Arts Wing Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Sun 15 Sep Portsmouth Guildhall Brydon, Mack And Mitchell - Town To Town Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Sat 14 Sep Portsmouth Guildhall Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Fri 13 Sep Portsmouth Guildhall Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Thu 12 Sep Sheffield City Hall and Memorial Hall Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Wed 11 Sep Sheffield City Hall and Memorial Hall Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Tue 10 Sep Sheffield City Hall and Memorial Hall Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell
• Thu 22 Mar Cheltenham, Everyman Theatre Rob Brydon, David Mitchell, Lee Mack
• Wed 21 Mar Cheltenham, Everyman Theatre Rob Brydon, David Mitchell, Lee Mack
• Tue 20 Mar Cheltenham, Everyman Theatre Rob Brydon, David Mitchell, Lee Mack
• Mon 19 Mar Cheltenham, Everyman Theatre Rob Brydon, David Mitchell, Lee Mack

January 2018

• Sat 27 Jan Bristol Beacon Lee Mack's Laurel & Hardy Classics

October 2017

• Mon 30 Oct Reading, Hexagon An Evening With Brydon, Mack And Mitchell Rob Brydon, Lee Mack, David Mitchell, Matthew Sweet
• Wed 1 Mar ➙ Sat 3 Jun London, Garrick Theatre Griff Rhys Jones, Lee Mack, Mathew Horne, Katy Wix, Andi Osho, Ellie White, Saikat Ahamed …

February 2017

• Tue 21 Feb ➙ Sat 25 Feb Richmond Theatre, Surrey Griff Rhys Jones, Lee Mack, Mathew Horne, Katy Wix, Andi Osho, Ellie White, Saikat Ahamed …
• Wed 8 Feb ➙ Sat 18 Feb Bath Theatre Royal Griff Rhys Jones, Lee Mack, Mathew Horne, Katy Wix, Andi Osho, Ellie White, Saikat Ahamed …
• Sun 17 Apr ➙ Tue 19 Apr London, Theatre 503 Lee Mack, Sally Bretton, Hugh Dennis

December 2014

• Mon 22 Dec Brighton Centre Lee Mack
• Sat 20 Dec O2 Apollo Manchester Lee Mack
• Fri 19 Dec Blackpool Winter Gardens Lee Mack
• Thu 18 Dec Newcastle upon Tyne, O2 City Hall Newcastle Lee Mack
• Wed 17 Dec Wolverhampton, The Civic at The Halls Lee Mack
• Tue 16 Dec Wolverhampton, The Civic at The Halls Lee Mack
• Mon 15 Dec Liverpool Empire Theatre Lee Mack
• Sun 14 Dec O2 Apollo Manchester Lee Mack
• Sat 13 Dec O2 Apollo Manchester Lee Mack
• Fri 12 Dec O2 Apollo Manchester Lee Mack
• Thu 11 Dec O2 Apollo Manchester Lee Mack
• Wed 10 Dec O2 Apollo Manchester Lee Mack
• Tue 9 Dec O2 Apollo Manchester Lee Mack
• Sat 6 Dec Southend-on-Sea, Cliffs Pavilion Lee Mack
• Fri 5 Dec Southend-on-Sea, Cliffs Pavilion Lee Mack
• Thu 4 Dec Southend-on-Sea, Cliffs Pavilion Lee Mack
• Tue 2 Dec Nottingham, Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall Lee Mack
• Mon 1 Dec Nottingham, Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall Lee Mack

November 2014

• Sun 30 Nov Nottingham, Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall Lee Mack
• Sat 29 Nov Liverpool Philharmonic Hall Lee Mack
• Fri 28 Nov Liverpool Philharmonic Hall Lee Mack
• Thu 27 Nov Birmingham, Resorts World Arena Lee Mack
• Wed 26 Nov Liverpool Philharmonic Hall Lee Mack
• Tue 25 Nov Liverpool Philharmonic Hall Lee Mack
• Sat 22 Nov Blackpool Winter Gardens Lee Mack
• Fri 21 Nov Blackpool Winter Gardens Lee Mack
• Thu 20 Nov Lee Mack
• Wed 19 Nov Northampton, Royal & Derngate Theatre Lee Mack
• Tue 18 Nov Northampton, Royal & Derngate Theatre Lee Mack
• Sat 15 Nov York Barbican Lee Mack
• Fri 14 Nov York Barbican Lee Mack
• Thu 13 Nov York Barbican Lee Mack
• Wed 12 Nov Edinburgh Playhouse Theatre Lee Mack
• Tue 11 Nov Edinburgh Playhouse Theatre Lee Mack
• Sat 8 Nov Newcastle upon Tyne, O2 City Hall Newcastle Lee Mack
• Fri 7 Nov Newcastle upon Tyne, O2 City Hall Newcastle Lee Mack
• Thu 6 Nov Newcastle upon Tyne, O2 City Hall Newcastle Lee Mack
• Wed 5 Nov Newcastle upon Tyne, O2 City Hall Newcastle Lee Mack
• Sat 1 Nov Glasgow, Kings Theatre Lee Mack

October 2014

• Fri 31 Oct Glasgow, Kings Theatre Lee Mack
• Thu 30 Oct Glasgow, Kings Theatre Lee Mack
• Wed 29 Oct Glasgow, Kings Theatre Lee Mack
• Sat 25 Oct London, Eventim Apollo Lee Mack
• Fri 24 Oct London, Eventim Apollo Lee Mack
• Thu 23 Oct London, Eventim Apollo Lee Mack
• Wed 22 Oct London, Eventim Apollo Lee Mack
• Tue 21 Oct London, Eventim Apollo Lee Mack
• Sun 19 Oct London, Eventim Apollo Lee Mack
• Sat 18 Oct London, Eventim Apollo Lee Mack
• Mon 13 Oct Portsmouth Guildhall Lee Mack
• Sun 12 Oct Portsmouth Guildhall Lee Mack
• Sat 11 Oct Portsmouth Guildhall Lee Mack

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Lee Mack interview: stand-up comedy, Not Going Out, Everybody Loves Raymond and more

His stand-up tour won acclaim far and wide earlier this year. And as it arrives on DVD, Lee Mack spares some time to talk about comedy, and the return of Not Going Out…

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This might be pulling back the curtain a little, but rarely have we conducted an interview with quite so many technical problems as this one. We only mention this, because throughout the assorted troubles we had with dodgy phones and recording equipment, Lee Mack was a gent. It’s thus, thanks primarily to his patience, that we were able to have the chat that we did. And here’s how it panned out…

It’s probably best to start with the obvious question: how did you go about shaping the show for the DVD release?

Well, we obviously had to do lots of editing. But we toured it, and when it came to the edit, we did have to cut it a bit.

I only ask, because you cut my favourite joke of the tour out! [a joke about R White’s lemonade, of all things] I figured that got the cut because, when I saw it on tour, only around half the audience seemed to get it!

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And that didn’t stay in the DVD? I didn’t even know that! If only half the audience got it, I definitely would have kept it in! Do you know what, I probably just forgot to say it on the night we recorded it!

When I came and saw your live gig in Birmingham, you managed to lock a claustrophobic in a box…

Oh, you were there? Fucking hell! The one where the woman kept the lid open?

I had two in the same week. She wouldn’t even let the lid close. It was fucking mental that…!

It struck me, especially when watching the DVD back, that you top and tailed the gig with unpredictable elements…

I have to say, that I don’t top it. Usually they get in the box! The tail, without doubt, is very much a Q&A, peppered with a bit of chat. It’s the bit that I like probably the most. I have to say that it doesn’t always work, but that’s the nature of the night.

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You say on the DVD, when you talk to some people behind the scenes on the tour that you’ve heard Simon Evans’ jokes 90, 91 times [Simon Evans is Lee’s support act]. The Q&A must be your release from doing the same material each night?

Yeah, but I’m always very conscious that you don’t want to outstay your welcome. I’m not a comedian who wants to spend far too long on stage. There are a lot of people going, this is all well and good, but I’ve got a babysitter. So, you can get a bit carried away.

You decided to embark on this tour when Not Going Out was originally cancelled, before that decision was reversed. I read in an interview once that you said every series of Not Going Out takes about a year to produce, and you have to clear the diary to do it…

Yeah, it’s probably nine or ten months. But yeah. I spend a massive proportion of the year doing it. It got better, and each series we’ve managed to get it down to less time.

In hindsight, would you say that the tour eventually came at the wrong time for you? Because looking at the behind the scenes documentary you put on your new DVD, you seem to be leading the opposite life to most stand-ups there. The old cliché of doing the gig, not getting up until after lunch the following day…

Oh yeah. I’ll be honest with you, there’s never a right time for it all. The tour takes a long time. Doing the sitcom – Not Going Out – takes a long time. So to do both at the same time is very hard.

There’s never going to be a good time to do both. I feel that I’m a stand-up comedian more than anything else, that’s my job. But I find the sitcom more of a challenge. That’s the thing I’ve spent most of the last five years doing. So I’m very protective over it.

It’s much harder to have a BBC One sitcom than to have a tour of stand-up. Not harder, but I can do a stand-up tour anytime I want over the next few years. But the sitcom is determined by the BBC and whether they want it.

So to have it on air still, I feel is a real pleasure. I’m very grateful, to do a studio-based sitcom particularly, which is a bit more unfashionable.  It doesn’t come around very often, so if you’ve got it, cling on to it!

It’s a team show, as well, so there’s more than me in it. I feel like I’m part of a group, and we genuinely have a great laugh doing it. So the fact that the tour was booked in, I had to carry on writing the sitcom, there’s no choice.

I’m a big fan of the show …

Thanks, I appreciate that. As I say, it’s very unfashionable. It’s easier to say you don’t like than you like it. If you say you don’t like a studio-based sitcom, it’s a much safer bet. Saying you like dark, edgy, shaky-camera stuff.

It was Victoria Wood who came out a few years ago and said that, after Dinnerladies , there would never be another successful sitcom, and The Royle Family and The Office also redefined television comedy…

Well, it’s funny you should say that. Not only do I remember her saying that, that was on – and it was called The Sitcom Is Dead – the night before we recorded the pilot of Not Going Out . And I remember watching it, thinking this is great news, thank you. David Liddlemount, the head of ITV, was the host.

The last line in the show was Armando Ianucci saying, “we’re saying all this, but who knows, tomorrow, somebody could write a sitcom about a clown, and it could be a big success”!

And we’d put a clown in the pilot!

You’ve spoken in the past about your admiration for something as long-running as Everybody Loves Raymond in the US…

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Again, that’s a sitcom that attracted snobbish criticism for some time.

Yeah, of course. Lots of it.

Is that the longevity you’re aiming for with Not Going Out?

I’m on my own when I say this. But I’m one of the few people that think that E verybody Loves Raymond is better than Seinfeld . For me, they’re both brilliant, but if I had to choose one, I would say that Seinfeld … Everybody Loves Raymond , it’s very hard to be extremely on-the-face-of-it broad and mainstream. But actually, getting some quite edgy stuff in. The relationship between Raymond and his dad, and his dad and everyone else in it, was very dark. He’s a very dark character is Frank in Everybody Loves Raymond . And to get that across to a big audience is quite hard.

For me, I’ll rephrase it. Not that it’s better, but if someone said to me that you had to write an episode of Seinfeld , or an episode of Raymond , I would find Seinfeld easier to write. It’s more of a challenge to write Everybody Loves Raymond.

I hear Miranda Hart has dropped out of the next series of Not Going Out?

That’s correct, yeah.

You’ve faced this problem before, of course. Have you sorted a replacement for her?

Of course! I get through quite a lot of women in my show! Catherine Tate was in the pilot!

We’re not bringing new characters in. It’s me, Tim Vine, Katy and Sally. We’ve had quite a lot of guest characters this year. And Bobby Ball crops up as my dad again.

I’m quite pleased. I’m happy we’ve got our team of four together, that will be in it now, fingers crossed, for years to come if we’re recommissioned.

I hope you are.

I hope so too. It’s the thing that I’m most passionate about.

The obvious question, then, is that you left quite a lot of space between the last tour that you did and this one…

A lot of comedians now work on the two year cycle, that you have a year off, trial the new show, then go on tour the year after and put the DVD out.

Yeah. That sounds about right to me.

Are you looking to do that?

I think the nature of sitcom is that the sitcom dictates everything. If the sitcom is recommissioned I will probably concentrate on that for a year, and if not, I will probably go back to the stand-up. I tend to not really make too many plans now.

My only plan right now, quite literally, is that I’m going to have January and February off. And I genuinely don’t think ahead of that. Obviously at some point I’ll do another tour, probably in the next two years maybe. That would be my guess.

Are you continuing with Would I Lie To You as well?

Yeah, we’re doing that in March.

Finally, going back to Not Going Out , you’ve got the fourth series in the can for January?

Have you had any hint of a fifth series?

It’s one of the hardest things about a sitcom, unfortunately, that they’re commissioned from series to series, and are very hard to plan. It gets difficult to do that if you have to do that every year, so I’m hoping that we might have some more concrete commitment. But we’ll have to wait and see.

Do you have any more shows outside of Not Going Out that you’re looking to develop?

I’m talking to Channel Four at the moment about some stuff, and hopefully we’ll get something going. But we’ll have to see what happens!

Lee Mack, thank you very much.

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Lee Mack stars in the acclaimed dark comedy of manners about a couple who spot trouble when a potential murderer comes to stay!

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It was great to see one of my favourite comedians, Lee Mack, in a leading role. All the characters were well played by the cast. The showstopper has to be the delightfully eccentric and ‘is she or isn’t she’ character of Elsa, played with absolute p Read more

Hilarious! I saw this on it's excellent first run and knew that Lee Mack would be a perfect fit for the role, ably supported by Sarah Alexander and the returning brilliance of Frances Barber. Grab a ticket while you can!

Good comedy plot. Lee Mack was very popular with the audience - I admire him as a comedian, but found all his over-acting a bit much. The rest of the cast were much more natural, and Frances Barber was excellent.

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Lee Mack to Star in The Return of The Unfriend

Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’ record breaking collaboration The Unfriend will be making its return to the West End this year. The show will open in previews at Wyndhams’ Theatre on 16 December and will run until 9 March 2024, with a press night on 9 January 2024.

New to the show, award-winning comedian and actor Lee Mack ( Would I Lie To You, Not Going Out , Inside No. 9) will play the role of Peter, whilst Sarah Alexander ( Jonathan Creek , Green Wing, Smack The Pony and Coupling ) will play Peter’s wife Debbie and Nick Sampson ( Witness for the Prosecution , Anthony and Cleopatra ) will play The Neighbour. Frances Barber ( Silk and Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool ) returns to play the role of everyone’s favourite serial killer Elsa Jean Krakowski.

Lee Mack said: “ I’m delighted to be joining The Unfriend with the brilliant Sarah Alexander and the wonderful Frances Barber, and of course all the other amazing cast. It’s such a fantastically written play by Steven Moffat that I might even go the whole hog and learn the words .”

While on holiday Peter and Debbie befriend Elsa: a lusty, Trump-loving widow from Denver, USA. She’s less than woke but kind of wonderful, so they agree to stay in touch – because no one ever really does, do they?

When Elsa invites herself to stay with the family a few months later, they decide to look her up online. But it’s too late: on learning the truth about Elsa Jean Krakowski, the deadly danger is already on a flight to London! What began as a casual holiday friendship is suddenly a threat to all their lives.

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Peter and Debbie now face the ultimate challenge of the modern world – how do you protect all that you love from mortal peril without seeming a bit impolite?

Because guess who’s coming… to MURDER.

Director, Mark Gatiss, said; “You can’t keep a good serial killer down! I’m absolutely delighted that Elsa Jean Krakowski has found a home at the beautiful Wyndham’s theatre and very much look forward to bringing Steven’s hilarious play back to the West End” .

Writer, Steven Moffat said: “ It’s a real thrill to welcome a couple of comedy legends on board The Unfriend, for our new run at the Wyndhams Theatre.  Lee Mack is one of the funniest men in the country and someone I’ve been wanting to work with for years. And Sarah Alexander is not just brilliant and hilarious, she’s an old friend from our days together on Coupling . Can’t wait to get started all over again. ”

Steven Moffat is a six-time BAFTA award-winning writer, whose hit television series include Doctor Who , Sherlock and Dracula – the latter two co-written with the actor and writer Mark Gatiss, who directs this production. Mark Gatiss is a member of the sketch comedy team The League of Gentlemen . Gatiss’ recent directing credits include The Mezzotint and The Amazing Mr Blunden for Sky Max, in which he also starred. He also recently adapted A Christmas Carol at Nottingham Playhouse and Alexandra Palace. Most recently he won huge acclaim for his role as John Gielgud in The Motive and the Cue at the National Theatre.

The Unfriend is designed by Robert Jones, with lighting by Mark Henderson, sound by Ella Wahlström, video design by Andrzej Goulding and casting by Charlotte Sutton CDG. The Unfriend by Steven Moffat was originally developed by Playful Productions.

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Running time: 1 hour 55 minutes (including interval)

Access performances: Captioned performance: 15 February at 7.30pm, Audio Described performance: 25 January at 7.30pm

The Unfriend tickets are on sale now for the show in London’s West End.

A new play from Steven Moffat (Doctor Who, Sherlock), The Unfriend will begin performances at Wyndhams’ Theatre on 15 December 2023 with tickets on sale now here .

While on holiday Peter and Debbie befriend Elsa: a lusty, Trump-loving widow from Denver, USA. She’s less than woke but kind of wonderful. They agree to stay in touch – because no one ever really does, do they? When Elsa invites herself to stay a few months later, they decide to look her up online. Too late, they learn the truth about Elsa Jean Krakowski. Deadly danger has just boarded a flight to London! What began as a casual holiday friendship is now a threat to the lives of their children.

Who’s on the cast?

Returning to the West End after a first run at the start of the year, The Unfriend will feature Lee Mack (Would I Lie To You, Not Going Out, Inside No. 9) as Peter, Sarah Alexander (Jonathan Creek, Green Wing, Smack The Pony and Coupling) as Peter’s wife Debbie and Nick Sampson (Witness for the Prosecution, Anthony and Cleopatra) as The Neighbour.

Frances Barber (Silk and Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool) returns to play the role of everyone’s favourite serial killer Elsa Jean Krakowski.

The Unfriend has a running time of 1 hour 55 minutes (including interval) and an age recommendation of 14+.

Lee Mack said: “I’m delighted to be joining The Unfriend with the brilliant Sarah Alexander and the wonderful Frances Barber, and of course all the other amazing cast. It’s such a fantastically written play by Steven Moffat that I might even go the whole hog and learn the words.”

The new play originally made its debut at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2022 before first transferring to the West End at the Criterion Theatre in 2023.

The Unfriend will play at London’s Wyndhams’ Theatre from 15 December 2023 currently booking through to 9 March 2024.

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What’s more important, being polite or being alive? Dark comedy of manners The Unfriend returns to the West End following a box office-busting season earlier this year, with Lee Mack starring as one half of a British couple hosting a potential murderer in their home! This “viciously funny” (The Guardian) play from Sherlock and Doctor Who showrunners Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss is the laugh-out-loud hit you can’t miss at Wyndham’s Theatre . 

While on holiday, married couple Peter and Debbie strike up a friendship with loud, brash and Trump-supporting Elsa, and agree to stay in touch. Holiday friends aren’t real friends after all. Sadly, Elsa thinks differently because she is soon inviting herself to stay! Awkwardness turns into horror when Peter and Debbie look her up online and make a horrifying discovery. How will they get rid of her and keep their family safe… without seeming too rude? 

Lee Mack stars as Peter alongside Sarah Alexander as Debbie and Frances Barber as Elsa in The Unfriend play. Mack is known for the BBC sitcom Not Going Out and the panel show Would I Lie To You, while Alexander ’s credits include Moffat ’s Coupling and Smack The Pony . Barber has played glamorous, murderous Elsa since the play’s first performances and has also appeared in Silk and Doctor Who . 

The Unfriend is Steven Moffat ’s first stage play, directed by Mark Gatiss ( The League of Gentlemen ). The duo are responsible for some of the best television of the 21st century including Sherlock and Doctor Who , and their eye for making the mundane both hilarious and outrageous is on full display here. 

Guess who’s coming to murder! The Unfriend play “hits the funny bone with a twang” and delivers the very best of British humour: self-deprecating, witty and a bit menacing too. Don’t miss its return to London in December 2023. 

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Sophie Duker

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Bill Bailey

09/02 – 19/01/2025

Various venues

Comedy legend Bill Bailey returns with his musical stylings in huge new arena tour Thoughtifier, with West End dates added to 2025.

03/04 – 25/05/2025

Comedian, presenter and actress Ellie Taylor is back and preparing to tour the UK in 2025 with her brand-new show Palavering!

26/02 – 21/09/2025

Join Harry Hill on his Diamond Jubilee lap of honour as he celebrates 60 Glorious Years of fun, laughter and low-level disruption.

Jason Manford

12/11/2024 – 15/02/2025

Jason Manford is back with his brand-new live show. A Manford All Seasons. Jason’s been busy since his last smash-hit stand up show but fans of his Absolute Radio show will know this nationally acclaimed comedian hasn’t changed a bit. A Manford All Seasons is Jason’s latest comic offering set to hit the road, and is sure to be ‘expert observational comedy’ (The Guardian) mixed with ‘comic gold’ (Mail on Sunday).

John Bishop

09/03/2024 – 03/05/2025

John Bishop returns to venues across the country with a brand new tour Back At It – don’t miss out!

Mo Gilligan

03/11 – 30/11/2024

Don’t miss out on Mo Gilligan’s In The Moment 2024 world tour, which extended in the UK due to popular demand.

Frank Skinner

05/06/2024 – 01/12/2024

Following a sell-out UK and Ireland Spring tour, and after announcing a third run in London’s West End at The Gielgud Theatre, comic legend Frank Skinner adds extra tour dates in Autumn 2024 for his critically acclaimed new stand-up show, ‘30 Years of Dirt’.

Paddy McGuinness

25/10/2024 – 29/03/2025

Paddy McGuinness returns to stages with Nearly There… his first stand-up tour in eight years.

02/02 – 16/11/2024

Britain’s funniest Pub Landlord is back to put the world to rights

03/11/2024 – 28/03/2025

In the biggest stand-up tour of his career, Andy will attempt to concoct vaguely plausible answers to perennial questions such as What?, Who?, Where?, and above all Why?

Anthony Jeselnik

26/09 – 28/09/2024

American comedian Anthony Jeselink brings his tour Bones and All on limited UK dates across London, Manchester and Glasgow.

15/10 – 17/10/2024

Australia’s most popular live stand-up comedian Carl Barron returns to the UK with his hit show Skating Rink For Flies.

Chloe Petts

06/02 – 09/03/2025

Rising star Chloe Petts brings a brand new tour to the stage following two sold-out runs with previous shows

Chris McCausland

19/01 – 13/12/2024

Sharp-edged stand-up Chris McCausland returns with a brand-new show for 2024!

Clinton Baptiste

29/03/2024 – 16/03/2025

Clinton Baptiste brings his brand new tour Roller Ghoster! to venues across the UK

Count Arthur Strong

Various Venues

See Count Arthur Strong in ‘And It’s Goodnight From Him!’, part one of his farewell tour of the world!

Daniel Foxx

Clapham Grand

Fresh from a sell-out extended run at the Edinburgh Fringe, award-winning gossip and TikTok starlet Daniel Foxx delivers a sensational show about childhood, Tilda Swinton and bullying (but in a chic way).

Dawn French

11/09 – 26/09/2024

Dawn French Is a Huge TW*T – playing in theatres across the UK.

01/09/2023 – 13/12/2024

Ed Byrne presents Tragedy Plus Time

04/02 – 29/06/2024

Ed Gamble has minced a load of meat (thoughts), piped it into a casing (show) and it’s coming to a bun (venue) near you. Don’t miss Hot Diggity Dog!

16/06 – 23/06/2024

The American boundary-pushing comedian brings The Eric Andre Show Live Tour to the UK this May.

Eshaan Akbar

07/02 – 06/04/2025

Eshaan Akbar is back doing jokes on tour! Catch him at a venue near you.

Felicity Ward

05/10 – 28/11/2024

Star of The Office (Australia) Felicity Ward brings her show ‘I’m Exhausting’ on her first national tour in six years.

Grace Campbell

16/10 – 24/11/2024

In her brand new show the unwaveringly honest comedian will ask big questions about the world, her vagina, and her obsession with making her dog her entire brand.

Greg Davies

29/01/2025 – 24/10/2025

Greg Davies is heading out on tour for the first time in 7 years with his brand-new 2025 stand-up show Full Fat Legend.

12/11/2024 – 01/11/2025

Jenny Eclair

05/10/2024 – 23/03/2025

Jenny Eclair comes to venues nationwide with a brand-new autobiographical show, ‘Jokes, Jokes, Jokes, Live’.

11/10/2023 – 03/11/2024

An hilarious evening of world-class stand-up from live comedy’s internationally acclaimed Irish master!

01/05/2024 – 19/12/2025

If you like fast-paced, edgy one-liners then get ready to be happy… one of the world’s best loved comedians, Jimmy Carr, is back on tour with a brand-new show for 2024 and 2025, Jimmy Carr: Laughs Funny.

18/07/2024 – 27/07/2024

Julian Clary

12/04 – 14/06/2024

Julian Clary embarks on a new 2024 UK tour – A Fistful of Clary

Kai Humphries

10/10 – 03/11/2024

Kai Humphries brings his new show Gallivanting to stages across the UK.

01/06 – 24/11/2024

Comedian, actor and presenter Kane Brown adds more dates to his ‘Don’t Listen To Me’ UK tour.

05/09/2024 – 10/05/2025

Katherine Ryan returns with brand new UK and European tour Battleaxe, starting September 2024.

Kevin Bloody Wilson

17/10 – 21/11/2024

2024 marks 40 years since Kev’s first album was released. INTERNATIONAL DILLIGAF DAY is every day! Celebrate with a brand new tour from Kevin Bloody Wilson.

08/09/2024 – 27/03/2025

Larry has been spending a lot of time with his grandmother lately, and he wants to tell you about it.

Join the thrice Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated, two-time star of Live At The Apollo for a hilarious new show about identity, heroes and the benefits of being a dafty.

Laura Smyth

04/04 – 27/06/2024

Star of Live at the Apollo, Laura Smyth, brings a dazzling new tour to the stage

Lloyd Griffith

01/03 – 22/11/2024

Lloyd returns with a brand new show Baroque and Roll

Lou Sanders

25/03/2025 – 26/03/2025

A show about being human – can you relate???

Just like Tom Cruise does all his own stunts, I’m going to do all my own jokes!

A deep, dumb show for the masses.

Maisie Adam

17/09 – 07/11/2024

Fresh from Live At The Apollo, A League Of Their Own and Have I Got News For You, Maisie Adam is heading back out on tour with a brand new show.

Mark Thomas

27/09/2024 – 20/02/2025

Comedian Mark Thomas takes new show Gaffa Tapes on a UK tour. Expect jokes, rants, politics, play and the occasional sing song.

26/09 – 26/10/2024

The stand-up comedian brings his new show Matt Bragg Has Nothing Wrong with Him to venues across the UK

03/09 – 20/09/2024

Wildly popular comedian and actor Matt Rife announced his ProbleMATTic World Tour hitting cities across North America, Australia, and Europe throughout 2023 and 2024

Michael McIntyre

06/09/2023 – 26/10/2024

Don’t miss Michael McIntyre return to the stage with his huge MACNIFICENT tour!

Michael Palin: There and Back

18/09 – 15/10/2024

Monty Python’s Sir Michael Palin returns with a 13-date UK tour: There And Back – The Diary Tour 2024

Michelle Brasier

14/05 – 06/06/2024

After a sold out run at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2023, Michelle Brasier (Aunty Donna, Double Denim) returns with her critically acclaimed show, Reform.

Milton Jones

03/09 – 15/12/2024

It’s not a musical. Join Milton Jones on a brand-new tour across the UK in Ha!milton. You know it makes sense.

Omid Djalili

06/02 – 26/06/2025

The Persian Comedy Powerhouse performs his critically acclaimed new show NAMASTE where Omid peacefully bows to his inner anger and unleashes a torrent of comedic vitriol upon the current state of this dangerously messed up planet.

21/06/2024 – 23/11/2024

Paul Smith is back and better than ever with his latest tour show, “Pablo”.

01/02 – 01/12/2025

Peter Kay is back. ‘One of Bolton’s funniest comedians’ is returning to stand-up comedy after twelve years.

Pierre Novellie

09/10 – 10/11/2024

Pierre Novellie is known for his award-winning comedy/observations as seen on The Frank Skinner Show on Absolute Radio, the hit podcast BudPod with Phil Wang and The Now Show on Radio 4.

He can’t stress enough that he thinks these thoughts are normal and reasonable – it’s you people that don’t make sense. He is the normal one, definitely, but that does raise an important question:

Why are you laughing?

Rhod Gilbert

13/01/2024 – 16/11/2025

Multi-award winning comedian Rhod Gilbert brings a brand-new live tour to the stage

Rhys Nicolson

On this, the year of our Lord 2024, it’s a brand-new, hour-long, stand-up comedy concert from your ol’ pal Rhys Nicholson. Only a coward wouldn’t attend.

12/05 – 10/11/2024

Fresh on the heels of his critically acclaimed memoir, Montana’s transatlantic messenger returns with new rants, knife-edge observations, thrilling musical interludes and an ever-formidable knack for laughs on the fly.

Richard Herring

08/05/2024 – 16/07/2024

In 2021 Richard Herring went to his GP to find out why his right ball seemed to be growing bigger. It turned out that he had testicular cancer and one month later he was lying in hospital waiting to have his murderous gonad removed.

In his return to stand-up after six years, Richard talks bollocks and answers the question on everyone’s lips: Is a severed gonad in a jar a fitting prize to bring in for Taskmaster?

Rob Beckett

19/11 – 21/02/2026

Yes! Bobby Beckles is back on tour. Smashing the life out of the M25, M1, M5 and any other road that’s in his way.

Sarah Millican

14/11/2023 – 14/11/2024

Funny, frank and unapologetically filthy, Sarah Millican will be touring the UK with Late Bloomer.

Schalk Bezuidenhout

02/10/2024 – 28/10/2024

As seen on Netflix and Comedy Central, and fresh from supporting Trevor Noah on his arena tour.

13/07/2024 – 09/05/2025

The Taskmaster champ is back on tour and dealing with her (sugar) daddy issues in a hilarious new stand-up show ‘But Daddy I Love Her’.

Tatty Macleod

01/11/2024 – 29/11/2024

Hot off the back of a sold-out Edinburgh Fringe run Tatty Macleod is bringing her certain je ne sais quoi to the stage with her debut hour of comedy: FUGUE

The Horne Section

14/03 – 21/11/2024

“Britain’s Funniest Band” (The Guardian) have made appearances on The Last Leg (Channel 4), Peter Crouch’s Year- Late Euros (BBC One), and are the only band to ever host Never Mind The Buzzcocks.

20/09/2024 – 21/03/2025

It’s a risky business navigating the tightrope of today’s times but Tom’s approaching it with his usual gusto. Without risk there is no reward.

“Stand up elite” – Chortle

20/09 – 24/11/2024

Tom Ward, as seen on Live at The Apollo, QI, Roast Battle and more, is bringing a brand new show to venues across the country.

Join bestselling author and global internet sensation Tova Leigh on a new UK tour

17/05 – 30/11

Everyone’s favourite 1930’s throwback greetings and compliments aficionado Troy Hawke returns to theatres nationwide with his brand new show.

Urzila Carlson

15/10 – 02/11/2024

The South African-born New Zealand comedian and actress Urzila Carlson comes to the UK

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Ticketmaster’s Comedy Guide is your complete guide to the best comedy shows and all kinds of funny stuff ranging from comedy festivals, stand up comedy, comedy concerts to theatrical productions. We’ve got loads of information – including announcements, exclusive interviews and reviews – to keep you up to date about all the comedians on tour in 2024 & 2025. From Edinburgh Festival Fringe to world-class favourites, our guide includes everyone from award-winning sell-out tours to up and coming performers. So whether you’re looking to find out what’s happening this week, this year or even next year, our guide will have you laughing in theatres and venues across the UK.

Whether you’re interested in top comedians or emerging stand up comedy, whether you’re looking in London, Manchester, Edinburgh or other cities across the UK… here’s where you’ll find comedy tickets for all the comedic entertainment you need so you can be there to laugh out loud.

The price of comedy tickets in the UK varies per live show. Ticketmaster offers a variety of affordable prices for top comedy tours, as well as Premium experiences for the biggest comedy fans. You can also find cheaper tickets in our Comedy Under £35 section, which highlights tickers under £35 for comedy tours, festivals and clubs across the country.

Some of the biggest comedians are taking their shows across the UK in 2024 to venues near you. Acts include:

• Ben Elton in his Authentic Stupidity tour until November 2024
• This year and next you can see Jason Manford : A Manford All Seasons
• John Bishop is Back At It in his new tour across 2024 and 2025
• Katherine Ryan’s new show Battleaxe kicks off in September 2024
• Entertainment favourite Michael McIntyre continues his MACNIFICENT tour to October 2024
• Milton Jones returns to stages this September with Ha!milton
• Paddy McGuinness returns to stand-up for the first time in seven years with Nearly There, kicking off in September 2024
• Al Murray is currently touring with The Pub Landlord until November 2024
• Comedy legend Bill Bailey brings Thoughtifier to the West End this December 2024
• You can see Ed Byrne in Tragedy Plus Time at venues near you until December 2024
• Jimmy Carr is currently touring with Laughs Funny
• Micky Flanagan rounds off his If Ever We Needed It tour this June 2024
• Peter Kay continues his arena tour, visiting the UK’s biggest venues
• You can see Rhod Gilbert across the UK in his Rhod Gilbert & The Giant Grapefruit tour
• Romesh Ranganathan finishes his huge tour Hustle this June 2024
• Sarah Millican tours with her Late Bloomer show until November 2024

You can also see fresh new comedy acts in 2024, including Laura Smyth , Grace Campbell , Henry Rowley , Kai Humphries , Maisie Adam , Matt Bragg , Rich Hall , Tatty Macleod , Tom Stade , Tova Leigh and Urzila Carlson .

Plus Comedy Clubs such as The Comedy Store , Big Belly Comedy Club , Big Deal Comedy and Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club are on all year.

You can already book tickets to plenty of comedy touring in 2025 and beyond, including some of comedy’s biggest names and newest faces. Select tickets near you from a host of UK dates, with artists on tour including:

• Harry Hill on his New Bits & Greatest Hits tour, kicking off in February 2025
• Greg Davies is returning to stages from January with his Full Fat Legend tour
• You can see Omid Djalili in Namaste from February 2025
• Rising star Chloe Petts tours the UK with How You See Me, How You Don’t from February 2025
• See Eshaan Akbar on tour in 2025, fresh from supporting Micky Flanagan and Jason Manford

Comedians touring in 2024 also have dates that go into 2025 and beyond, so there are plenty of opportunities to see your favourite act in a venue near you.

Looking for Comedy Clubs or comedy tours in venues near you? You can browse our Comedy Guide to find your favourite comedian at your local venue.

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The UK is home to several great comedy clubs, featuring new talent and up-and-coming comedians. Enjoy stand-up shows, improv, storytelling, sketches, open mics and much more at venues including The Comedy Store which has over 40 years in the business to its name, and comes to venues across the country.

You can purchase your local Comedy Club tickets directly from Ticketmaster, and can even browse more venues near you.

You can find tickets to Comedy Clubs via our dedicated Comedy Clubs section on this Comedy Guide.

There are plenty of venues in London , including Big Belly Comedy Club , Comedy In Your Eye , Covent Garden Comedy Club , and The Queer Comedy Club .

Just The Tonic hosts events in Birmingham, Nottingham, Leicester and Edinburgh, and Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club takes place in Hull, York, Bournemouth, Stoke-On-Trent and Portsmouth.

Big Deal Comedy Club has comedy nights in Cambridge, Kings Lynn, Peterborough and more across East Anglia.

You can visit the ever-popular The Comedy Store in venues across the UK, including Colchester, Scarborough, Norfolk, Bristol, Maidstone and more.

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You can see some of the biggest and best comedy talent across London, including Bill Bailey at the West End’s Theatre Royal Haymarket from December 2024, Harry Hill at Wilton’s Music Hall in and O2 Shepherds Bush Empire and Ben Elton at Richmond Theatre in September 2024 and the Lyceum Theatre in November 2024. Katherine Ryan has multiple dates at The London Palladium in March 2025, and Jason Manford will be gracing the same venue in February 2025.

John Bishop is coming to The London Palladium in April 2025, and Greg Davies is playing sold-out dates at the Royal Albert Hall.

Too find comedians coming to the capital, you can browse our London Guide .

Looking for comedy in Manchester? Find it on our Manchester Guide .

American actor and comedian Eric André is playing limited UK dates this May.

Canadian comedian Katherine Ryan brings her Battleaxe tour to stages across the UK in 2024 and 2025.

The UK is home to some of the world’s biggest comedy talent, with stand-up comedians including Bill Bailey, Jason Manford, John Bishop, Harry Hill, Ricky Gervais, Paddy McGuinness, Sarah Millican, Jenny Éclair, Michael McIntyre, Greg Davies and more famous names.

There is also plenty of rising talent in the country, including Emmanuel Sonubi, Babatunde Aleshe, Laura Smyth, Georgie Carroll and many more.

Edinburgh Festival Fringe takes place in August in Scotland every year, hosting a variety of comedy, theatre, dance and arts in venues across the city.

Many comedians play work in progress shows during the month before announcing UK-wide tours, and it’s a great chance for rising talent and new comedy to showcase their material.

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Unfriend noun. A person, often met on holiday, who doesn’t understand that “let’s keep in touch” means “goodbye.” Sometimes a murderer.

Fresh from breaking Box Office records earlier this year, prepare to welcome The Unfriend back to the West End for a strictly limited run at Wyndham’s Theatre from 16 December.

BAFTA Award winning comedian Lee Mack (Not Going Out , Would I Lie To You?) and Sarah Alexander (Coupling , Smack The Pony) join Frances Barber (Silk , Doctor Who) as she reprises her force of nature performance in this smash hit comedy from writer Steven Moffat and director Mark Gatiss , the celebrated team behind BBC’s Sherlock.

While on holiday Peter and Debbie befriend Elsa: a lusty, Trump-loving widow from Denver, USA. She’s less than woke but kind of wonderful, so they agree to stay in touch - because no one ever really does, do they?

When Elsa invites herself to stay with the family a few months later, they decide to look her up online. But it’s too late: on learning the truth about Elsa Jean Krakowski, the deadly danger is already on a flight to London! What began as a casual holiday friendship is suddenly a threat to all their lives.

Peter and Debbie now face the ultimate challenge of the modern world - how do you protect all that you love from mortal peril without seeming a bit impolite? Because guess who’s coming… to MURDER.

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124th U.S. Open

Pinehurst No. 2

U.S. Open 2024: Willie Mack III traveled hard road, including living in his car, to his major debut

Willie Mack III hits a shot during the first round of the U.S. Open.

Ross Kinnaird

PINEHURST, N.C. — In the year when Willie Mack III lived out of his Ford Mustang , his dad knew where he was every night. Most of the time, the accommodations were a hotel parking lot, squeezed between two other cars since it made it harder for staff to find him and kick him out. But as he chased his dream, he kept the truth of his night-to-night living situation away from his mom.

"You know moms," he says today. "They worry more than dads. But at least somebody knew."

Now, having come out qualifying, Mack is playing in his first U.S. Open, and on Thursday he nearly put up one of the best rounds in the entire field. Mack sat at two under, on the first page of the leaderboard, before Pinehurst No. 2 caught up with him. He slid back to shooting one-over-par 71 with bogeys on three of his last four holes. Still, for the 35-year-old from Flint, Mich.—with Tiger Woods, one of only two Black players in the field—it was a banner day on a punishing course and a decent testament to resilience.

There is a certain amount of romance to the concept of living out of your car while you pursue the dream of professional golf, but there couldn't have been much romance in 2018, when Mack pulled over to the side of the road after his car shut down, wondered what was going on, and then learned from a passing motorist that the car was on fire . He got out with time to save exactly one item beyond himself, and he chose his clubs—the rest burned, though he recouped some money in a GoFundMe started by his friend and fellow player Doug Smith.

"I must have loved golf more than I thought I did. To look back at that and go through that, I must have loved it," said Mack, who has more than 70 wins on various mini tours and is the standout graduate of the Advocates Pro Golf Association (APGA) Tour for minority golfers.

He's talking about the fire, but he could be talking about the grind itself—the years that have a way of feeling fruitless, of breaking you down until you want to quit. That happened to Mack more than once, and even when he stood on the verge of a potential breakthrough last year, with full KFT status, he couldn't make the most of it; he was too busy "watching everyone else," he thinks now, and he lost his card. Even then, he didn't quit, and his belief that he's playing well thus far in 2024 is backed up by the fact that he made it through local and sectional qualifying to land at Pinehurst.

His younger brother Alex is on his bag this week, and when he got the call for the qualifying events, it was a surprise reunion for the pair who live across the street from each other in Orlando.

"As of right now, I'm a full-time caddie," Alex said. "I caddied for him last year on the KFT, and halfway through, I was forcefully retired."

When asked for specifics, he said, "I wasn't doing well ... I wasn't doing my job," but today he seems very pleased to be on the bag and away from his job in finance. "It's a lot better than being in the office," he said.

Willie Mack III and his caddie and brother, Alex, talk during the first round.

Andrew Redington

Even though this is Mack's first major of any kind, he's not starstruck. He's played in PGA Tour events before—seven total, with two made cuts—and he's friends with Billy Horschel, who reached out to congratulate him when he qualified. In terms of any interactions this week, Mack didn't name a single pro, but singled out instead the kids that have been following him around.

Mack is soft-spoken, but he's a sharp dresser with bright white earrings (he says he keeps the real diamonds at home, since he's lost too many on the course), and wears the clothes of two of his sponsors, Wilson and Rhoback. His highlight Thursday came on the fourth hole, when his drive rolled into the bunker and he hit what he considers the best 4-iron of his life— 243 yards and almost to the green. From there he made his par, though it took a nine-foot putt.

"I said to my brother, after that second shot, I deserved a par," he laughed.

His immediate goal now is to make the cut—do so in a major and you're automatically exempt into the second stage of PGA Tour Q School. From there, he wants another shot at his card. He may be 35, but he's in good shape and looks younger, and if he hasn't quit yet, through the burning cars and the long nights sleeping in a car in hotel parking lots, you can bet it'll take a lot to put him off the scent.

"I'm the type of person to never give up," he said, "so I'm going to keep fighting."

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Willie Mack III will be playing in his first major championship this week at Pinehurst No. 2 in North Carolina. (MLive File Photo by Mike Mulholland) Mike Mulholland | MLive.com

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FLINT – As a youngster growing up in Flint, Willie Mack III dreamed of playing the Buick Open.

That was as good as it would get in Mack’s mind. He considered it a major tournament and why not given the likes of Tiger Woods, Vijay Singh and Jim Furyk were regulars at Warwick Hills Golf and Country Club who all won the event.

Mack never got to play in the Buick Open before General Motors pulled the plug on the PGA Tour event in 2010 but this week Mack is going to tee it up in one of the world’s biggest tournaments, an honest-to-goodness major championship.

Mack earned a spot in the 124th U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2 by winning a three-man playoff last week in a USGA qualifier in Florida.

“I just always wanted to play the Buick Open,” Mack said in a conference call with Michigan media. “I feel like that was a major for me at that time and to be able to come home to Michigan playing the Rocket Mortgage a couple years ago, having that be my first cut made on the PGA TOUR in my hometown, it will always hold a special place in my heart.

“Hopefully I can go out there next week and do the same.”

The Open will be Mack’s eighth PGA Tour event. He has made one cut, tying for 71st place in the 2021 Rocket Mortgage Classic at Detroit Golf Club. Mack received a sponsor’s exemption into the tournament.

Mack said he hasn’t head about the possibility of another exemption into the Rocket Mortgage Classic June 27-30 nor has he requested one. But he’s going to try and qualify for the tournament through the June 21-23 John Shippen National Invitational, which awards the winner an exemption into the $9.2 million Rocket Mortgage Classic.

Since becoming the first Black golfer to win the Michigan Amateur Championship in 2011, Mack has won more than 70 mini-tour events around the country. He also qualified for the Korn Ferry Tour in 2022. That’s the top minor-league circuit for potential PGA Tour players.

He’s also a former Advocates Professional Golf Association Tour Player of the Year.

Mack’s most recent victory was in the $100,000 Clovernook Open May 8-10 in Cincinnati. Mack won a six-man playoff to collect the $20,000 top prize.

“Being able to get through that, that playoff kind of just gave me that confidence, like I said, to get through this playoff” for the U.S. Open, Mack said. “But always said is if I didn’t get past it, it wasn’t life or (death). But you always want to get to the to the U.S. Open, and it being my first major is definitely going to be exciting not only for me but my family and my sponsors.

“They’ve supported me over the years when I’ve had some tough times so hopefully I can show everybody that it is a good thing to have me on board.”

Those tough times included living in his car for 18 months while he was trying to establish himself as a pro.

Mack had never been to Pinehurst until showing until Sunday to play some practice rounds before Thursday’s first round.

Past U.S. Open champions at Pinehurst include Payne Stewart, a Buick Open regular who beat Phil Mickelson in a memorable 1999 playoff before dying in a plane crash four months later.

“I keep hearing things from people that’s a great, great course,” Mack said of the Donald Ross design. “And the history there is amazing. I can’t wait to get there on Sunday and get the ball rolling. They say it fit’s my game well for sure. I’ve gotta hit in the fairway.

“I kind of like Donald Ross courses. Just kind of like a bowl, everything running off, so you have to be precise with your irons and your wedges. And short game has to be on point, so hopefully everything can come together next week all at one time and I can have a special weekend and go from there.”

Mack is hoping this might finally be the tournament that kicks his career into high gear after spending 13 years tying to qualify for the PGA Tour.

“It’s been a grind,” he admitted. “Not only this year, but just the last 11-12 years I’ve been a professional golfer. So I’m kind of now just kind of starting to get going.

“I guess in my career it’s the right step, but I feel like overnight successes don’t come. Just a lot of people think they just come in one night but this has been a while so I’m just glad it’s now and I gotta go out there and take this opportunity and do the best that I can with it.”

Last year’s U.S. Open champion, Wyndham Clark, won $3.6 million.

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156 players found a path to the U.S. Open. His was the least likely

Willie Mack III at the U.S. Open.

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PINEHURST, N.C. — Where do you start with this Willie Mack III , who (you could say) has more style and charisma than the top-10 FedEx Cup point leaders on the PGA Tour combined? Let’s start with his golf bag. It’s stamped Wilson , in that familiar, frozen-in-time, cursive-meets-script font. Who plays Wilson anymore? Padraig Harrington does, globetrotting touring pro. Arnold Palmer did, when he started his career as a touring pro in 1955. And so does Willie Mack III, a touring pro at large himself.

I asked Mack after his first-round 71 how he found his way to his Wilson clubs. “They looked nice,” he said. Now is that a great answer or what? You gotta like the way your clubs look.

There are 156 players in this tournament and 156 pathways here. Willie Mack’s has to be the most unlikely. My colleague Nick Piastowksi, in a story the other day, detailed how Willie 3, early in his pro career, lived in a Ford Mustang with tinted windows on the nights he couldn’t afford a hotel room at this tournament site or that one. This was in 2011, 2012, 2013. Excuse the imprecision. Details start to blend together, when you’ve spent a bunch of years trying to make it. This is the 124th U.S. Open, and Willie Mack’s first. Not for lack of trying.

You like an origin story? Try on this one. Willie Mack grew up in Flint, Mich. Flint produced Mateen Cleaves, Glen Rice and various other basketball legends but nobody ever confused the junior golf scene in Flint with the junior golf scene in Orlando or Scottsdale or the North Shore of Chicago. Mack played college golf at Bethune-Cookman, an HBCU school in Daytona Beach. The school’s emblem is under his name on his golf bag.

He’s won scores and scores of tournaments on the APGA Tour and on mini-tours in South Florida and across the South and the Midwest and, yes, there have been some years where he’s made more money than he has spent. He localed and sectionaled his way into this Open. He’s 35. He stays at it because golf is what he does. He’s the only player in the field here with fake diamond studs, about the size of a small ballmarker, in each earlobe.

There are two Black golfers in the field here, Mack and Tiger Woods. In 1896, as the second U.S. Open, held at Shinnecock Hills, there was one Black golfer in the field, John Shippen. In a week or so, Mack is scheduled to play in a tournament named for John Shippen, at the tony Detroit Golf Club, 60 miles from the Kearsley Lake Muni in Flint, where Mack won city amateur titles. Sixty miles or a million, depending on which map app you’re using.

His brother, Alex Knox, is caddying for him. Alex is a financial advisor in Orlando. He can shoot in the low 80s and they have logged hundreds of rounds together, as playing partners or as a caddie-player team.

“Who is the brains of this operation?” the older brother, the touring pro, was asked. Caddie-player brothers.

Seve Ballesteros of Spain did it with different brothers. Carlos Franco of Paraguay, the same. Davis Love of Sea Island, Ga., won the ’97 PGA Championship with his brother, Mark, on his bag. And now we have Willie and Alex from Flint.

“He would say he is but it’s probably me,” Mack said.

Mack is ranked 1,330 in the world, but a good weekend here could change that in a hurry. He’s built like a college slot receiver. He wears clothes – a Rhoback shirt, with the pooch emblem on its chest; tapered pants; red, white and blue FootJoys shoes, a gold braided necklace — like a model. All this guy needs is a Tour card. Last year, he played the Korn Ferry tour but could not keep his card.

Mack started on the back nine on Thursday and for a long while he was 2 under par. He bogeyed his final hole, the par-3 ninth, when his tee shot finished over the green and down a hill. The worst place to miss, with the pin back. “Everything happens for a reason,” he said minutes later.

He wasn’t talking about that shot. He was talking about the whole long journey, which includes that shot and a million others. Hard to imagine he’ll ever hit a tee shot over the ninth green again.

He once saved his clubs from a burning car. He’s hired and fired and rehired Alex, likely more times than either of them knows. He signed his card in a scoring tent off the 10th fairway, got in the passenger seat of a chilly Lexus SUV shuttle for the winding dirt-path trip back to the clubhouse and driving range. His brother was in a back seat. His Wilson clubs were in the back. It was midafternoon. He was pleased with his play with every club in the bag but one. His plan was to go to the range.

“I gotta figure out this driver,” he said. He didn’t sound overmatched or nervous or anything. He sounded calm and cool without even needing the SUV’s AC. He sounded like he belonged. Willie Mack III has it all, pretty much, including, like Arnold and Padraig before him, a natural likability. A good second-round score would be a good step for him. Just a step. As Tiger used to say, you take baby steps in this game. The ball doesn’t know how old you are, or how many nights you spent sleeping in your car.

Michael Bamberger welcomes your comments at [email protected]

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Flint golfer Willie Mack III hopes for 'special week' after qualifying for U.S. Open

Flint native Willie Mack III will live out another of his golf dreams this weekend as a member of the field for the 124th U.S. Open, at Pinehurst Resort & Country Club in North Carolina.

Mack grew up watching and dreaming of playing in Michigan's flagship USGA event, the Buick Open (in Grand Blanc), and eventually played in its replacement, the Rocket Mortgage Classic (in Detroit). Growing up, the PGA Tour coming to play in his backyard felt like an equivalent of the sport's four major tournaments. Now, he will be able to compare the feeling after he qualified for his first-ever major last week after winning a three-person playoff in a USGA qualifier.

"For me, it was always the Buick Open," Mack said last week. "I just always wanted to play the Buick Open. I feel like that was a major for me at that time and to be able to come home to Michigan and play in the Rocket Mortgage a few years ago and having that be the first cut made on the PGA Tour in my hometown, it will always hold a special place in my heart. Hopefully, I can go out there next week and do the same."

Mack was the fifth and final qualifier from the USGA event hosted at The Bear's Club in Jupiter, Florida, after he finished tied for fifth at 3-under in the 36-hole tournament. He shot a 71 and then a 70 and then beat out Brendan Valdes and Thomas Ponder to formally qualify for his first major.

He was prepared for the high-intensity situation despite already enduring the 36-hole qualifying, nicknamed " Golf's Longest Day ," because he played and won a playoff in a tournament last month at Clovernook Country Club in Cincinnati . This time around, Mack sank par putts on both the playoff holes while Ponder double-bogeyed the first and Valdes bogeyed the second.

"I had a six-man playoff three or four weeks ago so being able to get through that playoff kind of gave me the confidence to get through this playoff," Mack said. "If I didn't get past it, it wouldn't be life or death, but you always want to get to the U.S. Open. It being my first major is definitely going to be exciting."

Pinehurst will be a new challenge for Mack, 35, who has never played the No. 1 course before this week. It is the second time that the Donald Ross-designed course in North Carolina has hosted the U.S. Open in the past decade and the third time this century. Mack, who is competing in his eighth career PGA event, believes the layout can work in his favor after talking with people who've played the course.

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"They said it fits my game well for sure, gotta hit it in the fairway," Mack said. "I kind of like Donald Ross courses, (it's) kind of like a bowl (with) everything running off so you gotta be precise with your irons and your wedges. Short game has to be on point. So hopefully everything can come together next week all at one time and I can have a special week."

His confidence is high entering the tournament, thanks to a streak of good outings dating back to the 2023 season after he lost his card to play on the Korn Ferry Tour when he missed 10 cuts in 24 tour events.

Despite the setback, Mack said he remained confident in his game by recognizing that a linear path as a professional golfer can be difficult to attain. He plans to keep that same mindset at Pinehurst despite the hordes of crowds, TV cameras and attention. He even reached out to other players who have been in his shoes in the past for advice on how to handle the new scenery.

"You don't learn unless you fail," Mack said. "In golf, you fail a lot. So just learning from those mistakes in those failures that I've been through, I think it really helps you for moments like this when you really need it. And it can honestly be life-changing.

"We saw what Michael Block did at the PGA Championship. I've talked to him a couple times since I qualified on Monday. He gave me a little advice just to go out there and play my game. I belong out there and just keep that mindset of playing your game and do what you can do."

For now, Mack is not scheduled to play in the Rocket Mortgage Classic at Detroit Golf Club from June 27-30. He said he has not received an exemption for the tournament but he will be playing June 22-23 at Detroit Golf Club in the John Shippen tournament, a tournament for top Black golfers in the country, for a chance to qualify for the field.

But he'll worry about that in a little while; this week, he's competing for the U.S. Open trophy and a share of the $20 million purse available this weekend at Pinehurst.

"Hopefully, I can go out there next week and show everybody that I belong and it can turn into something great," Mack said.

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Happy Father's Day Seacoast, dads! Celebrate dad, or take yourself out this weekend to enjoy one of the many exciting events happening on the Seacoast. Experience the 47th St. Nicholas Greek Festival in Portsmouth, take kids of all ages to the 42nd Somersworth International Children’s Festival, head over to Prescott Park to see the "Barbie" movie or hear The Lone Bellow in concert, or take dad to the Press Room for a Father's Day jazz brunch. We also look ahead into next week at the Tuesdays on the Terrace summer concert series at Strawbery Banke Museum.

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St. Nicholas Greek Festival

What: Authentic Greek foods, delicious Greek pastries, a Greek imports market, church tours, Greek dancing, dance performances, kids corner and so much more

When: Friday, June 14 and Saturday, June 15 from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.

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Where: St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, 40 Andrew Jarvis Drive, Portsmouth

Cost: Free admission

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'Barbie' movie at Prescott Park

What: Join us for a whimsical journey into the world of "Barbie" as part of the Prescott Park Arts Festival's movie series. Bring your blankets and chairs.

When: Friday, June 14, at dusk

Where: Prescott Park, 105 Marcy St., Portsmouth

Cost: Recommended donation of $5 per person

More info: prescottpark.org

The Lone Bellow in concert

What: The Lone Bellow burst onto the scene with their self-titled debut in 2013. The Nashville-based trio (Zach Williams, Brian Elmquist, Kanene Pipkin) quickly became known for their transcendent harmonies, serious musicianship and raucous live performance. Harrison Goodell will open.

When: Friday, June 14, at 7 p.m.

Where: Wilcox Main Stage, Prescott Park, 105 Marcy St., Portsmouth

Cost: $15 suggested donation.

Somersworth International Children’s Festival

What: Saturday's festival will see Main Street in Somersworth transformed into a vibrant street filled with lots of fun for the kids, delicious food, craft and retail vendors, educational exhibits, and street performers. Entertainers include the Y’s Guys Ukulele Band at 10 a.m., Steve Blunt at 11 a.m., Rockin’ Ron the Friendly Pirate at noon, Tricky Dick’s Magic Show at 1 p.m., and Philip Alexander at 2 p.m. A free shuttle will provide transportation back and forth between the two locations.

When: Saturday, June 15 at 10 a.m. (A Friday night event with entertainment and fireworks has been postponed, according to organizers, due to expected inclement weather. No new date was set.)

Where: Friday night’s outdoor celebration at Somersworth High School. The Somersworth International Children’s Festival will take place on Main Street and at the Noble Pines Park.

More info: nhfestivals.org

The Rigometrics at MrSippy BBQ

What: The first rock ’n’ roll show on the restaurant's outdoor stage. Rigometrics provides an original, raw high-energy sound.

When: Friday, June 14, 7-9 p.m.

Where: MrSippy BBQ, 184 South Main St., Rochester

Cost: $10-$12

More info: mrsippybbq.com

2024 Kittery Block Party

What: The Kittery Block Party is a celebration of local art, culture and food in a fun neighborhood atmosphere, enjoyable to all ages.

When: Saturday, June 15 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Where: Wallingford Square, Government St., Kittery, Maine

More info: kitteryblockparty.org

Revolution: 1774 in Durham

What: The 250th Anniversary celebration of Day Two of the historic assault and raid on the British Fort William and Mary. Historically accurate flag-raising, a parade of military reenactors, followed by the Piscataqua Fife and Drum Corps and the First and Second New Hampshire regiments. Live music by Lee Biddle, awesome raffle prizes, and games for the kids. Nearby food trucks, too.

When: Saturday, June 15 from 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Where: On the banks of the Oyster River, at the site of Sullivan’s memorial in Durham.

More info: revolution-1774.org

Adrienne Mack-Davis Presents: Stay Juicy w/ DJ 32French

What: Host Adrienne Mack-Davis and her illustrious dj 32french provide a night of queer joy and reverie.

When: Saturday, June 15, 10 p.m.

Where: The Press Room, 77 Daniel St., Portsmouth

Cost: $15-$20

More info: pressroomnh.com

Father’s Day Jazz Brunch: MetaBeat

What: A group of local jazz greats reinterpreting beloved Beatles songs on Father’s Day.

When: Sunday, June 16, 11 a.m.

North River Music at Strawbery Banke Museum

What: North River Music is an Americana band with strong harmonies and expressive musicianship and will kick off the Tuesdays on the Terrace summer concert series. Guests are asked to bring lawn chairs or blankets. Beverages, including beer, wine and non-alcohol options will be available for purchase. Pizza from The Rosa Restaurant is available for advance order through Strawbery Banke’s website .

When: Tuesday, June 18, 5:30-7 p.m.

Where: Strawbery Bank Museum Kennebunk Savings Terrace, 14 Hancock St., Portsmouth

Cost: Admission is free for members; $5 for the general public; and is free for children under 3 years old.

More info: strawberybanke.org

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Patrick Cantlay, who has struggled in recent months, opened at Pinehurst No. 2 in North Carolina in 5-under 65 , his best score in more than four months. Rory McIlroy, the 2011 U.S. Open champ, birdied two of his final three holes to tie Cantlay at 5 under.

Masters runner-up Ludvig Aberg shot 4 under. Bryson DeChambeau shot 3 under and is again on the first page of the leaderboard at a major.

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As for Friday’s tee times, the top three players in the world tee off No. 10 at 7:29 a.m. ET on Friday with Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele and McIlroy. Cantlay goes in the afternoon at 1:25 p.m. ET off the first, and the group before him at 1:14 p.m. features Tiger Woods, who opened in 4-over 74.

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The highly anticipated 2024 U.S. Open Golf Championship is set to ignite the Pinehurst No. 2 Resort & Country Club with the prowess of 156 top golfers. The campaign for the coveted trophy will kick off on Thursday, June 13.

All eyes will be on the formidable World No. 1 golfer, Scottie Scheffler , who has had an impressive year. With a total of five victories, including a Masters win, Scheffler has proven his mettle in 13 events, securing a top-10 finish in 12 of them. His recent triumph at the Memorial Tournament has only solidified his status as a heavy favorite for the U.S. Open.

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