A household TV comedian is bringing his latest stand-up show with five-star reviews to Durham in February 2025.

Ed Byrne, a favourite on the British comedy scene, will perform his show, 'Tragedy Plus Time', at the Gala Theatre on February 7.

The show, which was named British Comedy Guide's Best Comedy Show 2023, is Byrne's most personal to date.

The comedian, known for his appearances on 'QI', 'Mock The Week', and 'Have I Got News For You', explores the theme of grief and loss inspired by the death of his younger brother, Paul, in February 2022.

Byrne said: "I was in two minds about whether to do a show of this nature.

"Then I decided this was the subject I was going to tackle but I wasn’t quite sure how to go about it.

"But once I started down that road, that was it… Then my main worry was, how funny is it going to be and is it going to work?"

The show has been met with rave reviews, with Rolling Stone UK calling it "hilarious, extremely dark, profoundly touching and resolutely unsentimental".

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The London Evening Standard described it as a "fantastically funny and moving monologue where there is no doubt that we are seeing the authentic Ed".

Byrne's exploration of grief and loss is a departure from his usual observational comedy, but he has managed to balance the serious subject matter with humour.

He said: "I’ve spoken to people who worked with Paul, who was a comedy director, and they’ve said that his thing was, ‘you can be as emotional as you like and as serious as you like, but there has to be a joke’.

"So the idea of saying something purely for the emotional gut punch was off the table."

The show has been praised for its delicate handling of the subject matter, with the Mail on Sunday describing it as "a delicate, sensitive high-wire act of a show, yet Byrne never once stumbles".