After a sellout tour this year, Ivo Graham’s Orange Crush tour has been extended into 2026.
What is the best orange thing in the world? Aperol spritz? Sunsets? Claudia Winkleman? You probably never stopped to think about what your favourite orange thing was, but you’re damn sure thinking about it now. Maybe it’s marmalade, or maybe it’s Garfield, or maybe it’s the album ‘Channel Orange’ by Frank Ocean. There’s just so many to consider. And no one on earth has considered more of them than Ivo Graham.
Ivo Graham has always been a fan of orange things. Baked beans. Sriracha mayo. The Tiger Who Came To Tea. But in 2025, a series of emotional days in his favourite colour prompted Ivo to commit harder than ever to the bit: colour-co-ordinating his life for his daughter, for his mother, for his football team, and, he desperately hopes, for your entertainment. Come and help this orange lunatic make his orange list, in a show about hats, haters, hometown heroes, and whether Hare Krishnas are better than Hobnobs.
Despite aiming for more serious careers at Eton and Oxford, Ivo has spent his entire adult life on the stand-up circuit, winning So You Think You’re Funny? aged 18 in 2009 and since establishing himself as, if not the UK’s poshest, then certainly its most apologetically posh comedian. His 2019 show The Game of Life, received nominations for Best Show and Best Joke at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Ivo has appeared on TV comedies including Have I Got News for You, QI, The Last Leg, Mock the Week, and Live at the Apollo, quizzed with varying degrees of success on Pointless, House of Games, Mastermind, and University Challenge, and toured the country with Fern Brady and Darren Harriott for Dave’s six-part travelogue British as Folk in 2021.
He’s earned his parents’ respect with appearances on Radio 4’s The Now Show, The News Quiz, Just a Minute, and the drama Unite, and his panel show Ivo Graham’s Obsessions, and shoehorned Swindon Town references into many an episode of 5 Live’s Fighting Talk and BT Sport’s The Football’s On.
And after swelling the coffers of more pragmatic podcasters with his adventures in Leddersford and Yeo Valley on Quickly Kevin and Off Menu respectively,Ivo eventually got round to starting his own, far less profitable venture, the delightful if administratively onerous musical nostalgia odyssey Gig Pigs, alongside his equally neurotic best friend Alex Kealy.
In 2023 Ivo competed, energetically if not successfully, on the fifteenth series of Channel 4’s Taskmaster. In 2024 he returned to the Fringe with Grand Designs, Carousel, and Comedians’ DJ Battles.
Ivo recently finished his tour of his highly acclaimed theatre show Carousel and released his first book, Yardsticks For Failure, an exquisitely written and at times genuinely stressful romp through the last few years of his chaos, published by Headline. He’s put more effort into this book than anything he’s ever done, so if you are reading this and haven’t ordered the book yet, please do resolve that immediately.
Tour schedule:
Tuesday 17 February Hertford, BEAM
Wednesday 25 February Brighton, Corn Exchange
Thursday 26 February Stamford, Corn Exchange
Friday 27 February Cardiff, Sherman Theatre
Tuesday 17 March Chelmsford, Theatre
Wednesday 18 March Newbury, Corn Exchange
Thursday 19 March Taunton, Brewhouse
Tuesday 24 March Southampton, MAST Mayflower
Thursday 26 March Norwich, Playhouse
Friday 27 March Norwich, Playhouse
Sunday 29 March Bury St Edmunds, The Apex
Friday 10 April Nottingham, Playhouse
Wednesday 29 April . Oxford, Playhouse
Thursday 30 April Milton Keynes, The Stables
Saturday 9 May Coventry, Warwick Arts Centre
Tuesday 19 May Dublin, Whelan’s
Thursday 21 May Farnham, Maltings
Friday 22 May Kingston Upon Thames, Rose Theatre
Friday 29 May Aberdeen, Lemon Tree (Lounge)
Saturday 30 May Inverness, Eden Court (One Touch)
Wednesday 17 June Leeds, City Varieties
Tickets & more information: www.ivograham.com
