Lucy Beaumont is heading out on tour with a brand-new show, Bad At Quiz Shows, Good with Weirdos - an evening packed with her unique brand of chaotic brilliance that has made her one of the UK’s most beloved comedians.

Expect tales of everyday disasters, Celebrity Traitors, creating cow-udder clothing on The Great British Sewing Bee and navigating life in her own distinctively wayward style.

Lucy has previously also appeared on shows including Would I Lie to You? The Great British Bake-Off, Meet the Richardsons and Taskmaster and this year made her professional stage acting debut in Road at the Royal Exchange in Manchester

She can currently be seen on Channel 4 in The Great Celebrity Pottery Throw Down 2026.

Her tour starts in Scunthorpe on September 23. Full tour dates and tickets here: www.lucybeaumont.co.uk

Your new show is called Bad At Quiz Shows, Good with Weirdos. So why are you bad at quiz shows?

On Michael McIntyre's The Wheel the first time I was on I lost someone £98,000. And then the second time I think it was £79,000. The question was 'what do you call a group of foxes?' It's not something you can just stab at, is it? He'd survived cancer, this poor lad, and then couldn't survive a question about foxes with me.

Celebrity Mastermind didn't go too well either. 

They said 'do it about someone that you want to know about'. I wouldn't be doing stand-up if I hadn't watched Les Dawson years ago so I chose him. They gave me a book about him and they said 'read this, we'll only ask you questions from this book.' So I thought, well, it's best to do it the night before, and then it'll all be in my head. But I fell asleep on page three. And everything they asked me was after page three.

Are you glad you did Celebrity Traitors?

It was surreal. I coped with it differently to others. Everyone else got a social media team, I went into hiding when it was on. I went up a tree to get something down and someone saw me and I thought I had to pretend I was still in the castle. It was just a mad, mad time. There's always some sort of escapade I get myself into. People want to know about Traitors so I'll be talking about that.

This is your second tour and much bigger than your debut. How will it differ?

I think mostly I'm just more confident. I would never have said this even a year ago, but I want to be the best comic. I think I've found out what sort of comic I am and what people want to hear. When I started people wondered if I was playing a character. I just went onstage with a handbag and hoped for the best. But now I feel like I'm me, there's no act.

What's your writing process, is it all done on stage, or on a computer?

Previously I would never have dared do anything in front of an audience unless I'd worked on it over and over again, but now when i'm preparing for a new show I'm able to go with a seed of an idea, and actually find the punchline onstage. I thought I'd have to almost have a script and just cross off bits they didn't find funny, but it now feels like a collaboration with the audience.

Has the show got a theme?

it's really about myself. I think you probably get a big snapshot of how my mind works. I honestly didn't know I was odd. People are like, 'how can she be so ditzy and yet also bright?' But that's how ADHD works. You can be both. It's not deep or serious though, I just want people to have a laugh. I'm 42 and I think these be the years where I should be making my best stuff.

Some of your stories are so crazy people think you are making them up. Like the one about kids sticking a Wagon Wheel on your forehead while you were asleep on a train...

I don't need to make anything up. I can just use my real life. The comedy finds me. I send voice messages to friends that are routines. At the moment I like sending them to Denise Van Outen, because she messages back and just laughs.

Were you always funny?

When I was working in pubs, if something funny happened to me I'd tell the regulars behind the bar. And then I'd think, if I change that word, or edit that...and then I'll I'll tell people on a table. If I wasn't doing this I'd be the funny person in the office, or the funny person in the school staff room. Luckily, I can make a living out of it.

Is there a typical Lucy Beaumont fan?

They're such good people, but so random. I've got a core middle class Radio 4 audience from when I did To Hull and Back and quite salt of the earth women, you can hear their cackles and they all remind me of my family. And then there are quirky, younger fans who saw me on Taskmaster. The younger generation coming up now don't see age or gender, it's really refreshing. Because of YouTube they know all your references whether it's old TV ads or Dad's Army.

What's your relationship like with your mother Gill?

She was a single mum so growing up in Hull we were so tight it almost felt like you're the same person. Sometimes I felt like we were married, sometimes I felt like we were siblings. We now know she is autistic but growing up I felt like I had to protect her a lot.

Your mother was on your podcast with Sam Campbell, Perfect Brain, and in Meet the Richardsons, Will you work with her again?

We've been trying to get a travelogue away, but I think channels are fed up with travelogues because everyone ends up watching sumo wrestlers in nappies at some point. It would be a great way of exploring our relationship. It's just so rare that you see two middle-aged neurodiverse northern women on TV.

Do you come from a funny family?

All my family is funny. We've all been brought up that you don't open your mouth unless you've got something funny to say. When my great-grandmother was on her deathbed, everyone gathered round and said 'Do you want to be buried or cremated?' And she said 'I don't know, surprise me.'

You've said you want to go into politics...

I wouldn't be able to get into my fifties without having a go at it. I just want to improve standards for children. The area I would like to look after is Blackpool North. I've seen child poverty that I can't shake off. Parks with just a metal swing, a slide and a spring that goes up and down. I would vote Green if there was an election tomorrow, unless Andy Burnham takes over Labour.

Do you suffer from nerves?

I used to be the most nervous person. A promoter once said: 'I wanted to book you, and I just emailed a few people and said, do you have a number for that girl that shakes onstage?' It was me. My knees would be literally knocking together. But I don't feel like that now.

Picture by Debbie Ellis.