After an award-winning, multi-award-nominated, 5-star critically acclaimed, sellout smash hit run at the Edinburgh Fringe, Joz Norris’s You Wait. Time Passes. is embarking on a nationwide UK tour in 2026.
Comedians’ Choice Award-winner Joz Norris has finally completed his life’s work and he’s ready to unveil it to the world in all its glory for the first time EVER – no matter what the consequences may be. But what exactly is it? What has it cost him? And now that he’s done it, what will he do next?
A “demented, meticulous, oddly moving” (Disrupt) new show about ambition, closure and moving on, from the “absurd genius” (Entertainment Now) creator and star of the acclaimed and multiple- critics’-choice BBC Radio 4 shows The Dream Factory and A Small Talk On Small Talk.
During its Edinburgh Fringe run, You Wait. Time Passes. became one of the best-reviewed shows of the 2025 Fringe, won the WoW Award for Best Comedy Show, was the runner-up for the NextUp Biggest Award in Comedy and was nominated for the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality.
Norris’s previous shows include Joz Norris Is Dead. Long Live Mr Fruit Salad, which won the Comedians’ Choice Award for Best Show and was nominated for the Chortle Award for Best Musical & Variety Act. He has guest starred in radio shows including The Many Wrongs Of Lord Christian Brighty, The Now Show and The Train At Platform 4, and appeared in TV shows including Comedy Central’s Guessable, BBC Three’s Blindboy Undestroys The World, Channel 4’s Hodge Podge and ITV2’s Elevenish.
He’s performed tour support for John Kearns and co-wrote and starred in the TV pilot Ed & Joz’s Heist Movie with Ed Aczel for Tiger Aspect. He also wrote and starred in the short film Dog House, which won Best Comedy Short at the UK Film Awards, and his sitcom pilot The Happiness Chain was nominated for numerous awards including the David Nobbs Memorial Trust New Comedy Writing Award and the Shortcom Sitcom Writing Competition.
TOUR DATES (Not all dates are on sale yet, but all will be listed on this page as soon as they go on sale):
Hyde Park Book Club – January 14th
Oxford, Burton Taylor Studio – January 16th
Norwich, Theatre Royal (Stage Two) – January 31st
Bristol, Alma Theatre – March 13th
Cardiff, Sherman Theatre – March 14th
Glasgow, The Flying Duck – March 19th
Edinburgh, Monkey Barrel – March 21st London
Canterbury, Marlowe Theatre – June 20th
