A kidney stone. A stray cat. An eye-themed fetish. Creator and star of Channel 4’s The Change, Taskmaster legend and Annie in BBC’s Ghosts, Bridget Christie hits the road again with her new show Jacket Potato Pizza. Tour schedule below.
Bridget said: “I am very much looking forward to eating Motorway services food again and picking my favourite roundabouts. Last year Plymouth won.”
Jacket Potato Pizza is Bridget’s fourteenth live show. Previous shows include Who Am I? A Bic For Her – which won the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival, a South Bank Sky Arts Award, and became the best-selling show at the Soho Theatre ever. Her Brexit-themed show, Because You Demanded It, was The Guardian’s top comedy of 2016 and won her second Chortle Award for Best Show.
The second series of Bridget’s critically acclaimed C4 comedy drama The Change recently aired. For the first series, Bridget won Best TV Writer at The New Voice Awards and Best Actor at The Edinburgh TV Awards. The series was also nominated in 2024 for both an RTS Comedy Writing Award and a BAFTA Award for her Performance in Comedy. Guardian proclaimed that “[this] super-cool menopause comedy is like nothing else on TV”. Series Two received similarly glowing reviews:
Bridget’s other nominations and awards include a British Comedy Award for Best Female Comic, a Rose d’Or, BBC Audio Drama Award, and five Chortle Awards.
In 2016, Bridget recorded her debut stand-up special – Stand Up For Her (Live from Hoxton Hall) – released direct to Netflix in 2017, making her the first British female stand-up on the streaming service.
Her BBC Radio 4 series Bridget Christie Minds the Gap won Best Radio Series at the 2014 Chortle Awards, Best Radio Comedy at the 2014 Rose d’Or awards, and another Chortle Award – for best radio programme – in 2015. Her third series, Utopia, was a finalist in the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2018, with Radio Times calling it “the funniest show on the radio in years”. Her fourth series Mortal won the BBC Audio Drama Award 2022 and was hugely critically acclaimed. Harry Hill declared it to be the "funniest, most original thing I've heard on the radio for a long time", and Jon Ronson says: "Bridget Christie is just so exceptionally funny and inventive. Mortal beautifully reflects these strange days of people spending too much time at home talking to them-selves. Bridget is just so constantly unique!"
As well as starring in Taskmaster Series 13 in 2021 and playing Annie in the BBC hit Ghosts, Bridget has also appeared in various TV and radio shows: including Have I Got News For You, Room 101, QI, Cardinal Burns, Anna and Katy, Harry Hill’s Alien Fun Capsule and The News Quiz.
Bridget will also be starring in season two of the BBC hit, Things You Should Have Done.
Tickets on sale now: www.bridgetchristie.co.uk
Photo credit: Natasha Pszenicki
TOUR SCHEDULE 2026:
January:
Wednesday 14 Stamford Corn Exchange
Thursday 15 Hull, Truck Theatre
Friday 16 Cambridge, Corn Exchange
Saturday 17 Brighton, Dome
Thursday 22 Exeter, Corn Exchange
Friday 23 Launceston, Town Hall
Saturday 24 Plymouth, Quad Theatre
Sunday 25 Portsmouth, New Theatre Royal
Friday 30 Leeds, Playhouse
February:
Sunday 1 Bristol, Beacon
Wednesday 4 Bangor, Patio
Thursday 5 Mold, Theatr Clwyd
Friday 6 Salford Quays, The Lowry
Saturday 7 Lancaster, Town Hall
Sunday 8 Nottingham, Theatre Royal
Sunday 15 Canterbury, Marlowe
Wednesday 18 Swindon, Wyvern
Sunday 22 Basingstoke, The Anvil
Thursday 26 Harrogate, Theatre
Friday 27 Sheffield, City Hall
Saturday 28 Guildford, Yvonne Arnaud
March:
Friday 6 Milton Keynes, Theatre
Wednesday 11 Lincoln, Theatre Royal
Thursday 12 York, Grand Opera House
Friday 13 Scarborough, Spa Centre
Saturday 14 Newcastle, Tyne Theatre & Opera House
Sunday 15 Glasgow, Theatre Royal
Friday 20 London, Hackney Empire
Saturday 21 Belfast, Mandela Hall
Sunday 22 Worthing, Pavilion
Sunday 29 Southend, Palace Theatre
