The Malawian born stand up Daliso Chaponda has announced a UK tour with a brand new unseen show entitled ‘Apocalypse Not Now’.  The tour starts on  30^th July at Leeds Wardrobe and culminates next May!   Daliso has performed all over the world, including two previous UK tours and at the Edinburgh, Melbourne, Singapore and Cape Town comedy festivals. 

“Can’t wait to have an ACTUAL audience in front of me and make ACTUAL people laugh. I am overcapitalising because I’ve been entertaining people on a screen for a year. ACTUAL people. You’ll cry with laughter; I’ll cry with joy. It could get messy.”  

DALISO CHAPONDA

2020-21 has felt quite a lot like an apocalypse for Daliso, who by now should have done a full season at the Edinburgh Fringe, a national tour, and who knows how many more gigs!  As one of the UK’s hardest working comedians he didn’t stop and during lock-down built a whole new following online with his daily crowd-sourced comedy shows (he completed 200!) – one of the success stories of the pandemic! 

The last few months also inspired him to write ‘Apocalypse Not Now’ – a show about change not just in the world but in himself.  He spent the first two lockdowns totally alone trying not to go crazy.  He was Mr Independent and now, after his elongated period of solitude, he has changed his opinion on being alone, in fact he asked a friend (who was in an abusive relationship and has mental health issues) to move in with him.  Finally he was forced to COMPROMISE and this made him realize that freedom isn’t everything!

Daliso shot to fame and captured the hearts of the nation on Britain’s Got Talent  2017 where he reached the final and was Amanda Holden’s Golden Buzzer act. He has gone on to amass an outstanding 300 million plus YouTube & Facebook views!  

Check out the tour dates below and grad your tickets here.

Tour dates

JULY

• Fri 30^th              LEEDS – Wardrobe              

SEPTEMBER

• Fri 10^th             SALFORD – The Lowry 
• Sat 25^th             HELMSLEY – Arts Centre 

OCTOBER

• Fri 1^st                CRAWLEY – The Hawth 
• Wed 13^th           EDINBURGH – The Stand
• Thurs 14^th         GLASGOW – The Stand
• Sun 24^th            CARDIFF – Glee Club 
• Thurs 28^th         BORDON – Phoenix Arts

NOVEMBER

• Thurs 11^th         NEWCASTLE – The Stand
• Sat 13^th             BRISTOL – The Wardrobe Theatre
• Fri 26^th              COVENTRY – Warwick Arts Centre

DECEMBER

• Fri 3^rd               SELBY – Town Hall 

2022

JANUARY 

• Sat 22^nd            BARNARD CASTLE – The Witham
• Sat 29^th             SALE – Waterside

FEBRUARY

• Fri 4^th                MAIDENHEAD – Norden Farm
• Sat 5^th              OXFORD – North Wall Arts
• Sat 12^th             BURTON-ON-TRENT – The Brewhouse
• Sun 13^th            BATH – Komedia 
• Sat 26^th             CAMBRIDGE – Junction 

MARCH

• Sun 6^th              OTLEY – Courthouse
• Sat 19^th             STOCKTON – ARC Stockton
• Thurs 31^st         BRIGHTON – Komedia Studio

APRIL 

• Sat 23^rd             WARRINGTON – Pyramid Arts Centre

MAY

• Thurs 5^th           PETERBOROUGH – The Key Theatre

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