Ivo Graham’s Orange Crush tour has been extended into Autumn 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.
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 sellout tour of his highly acclaimed theatre show Carousel and released his first book, Yardsticks For Failure, an exquisitely writ-
ten 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 Dates:
Thursday 3 September Belfast, The MAC
Tuesday 8 September Winchester, Theatre Royal
Wednesday 9 September Bristol, Old Vic
Thursday 17 September Hull, Truck Theatre
Wednesday 30 September Worcester, Swan Theatre
Sunday 4 October Chesham, The Elgiva Theatre
Tuesday 6 October Durham, Gala Theatre
Monday 12 October London, Soho Theatre, Main House
Tuesday 13 October London, Soho Theatre, Main House
Wednesday 14 October London, Soho Theatre, Main House
Thursday 15 October London, Soho Theatre, Main House
Friday 16 October London, Soho Theatre, Main House
Saturday 17 October London, Soho Theatre, Main House
Friday 23 October Lichfield, Garrick Theatre
Wednesday 28 October Plymouth, The Quad Theatre
Thursday 29 October Launceston, Town Hall
Wednesday 11 November Liverpool, Playhouse Theatre
Tuesday 17 November Northampton, Royal
Wednesday 25 November Leicester, Y Theatre
Thursday 26 November Glasgow, Oran Mor
Sunday 29 November Salford, The Lowry (Quays Theatre)
Wednesday 2 December Cambridge, Junction
Thursday 10 December Guildford, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
Tickets & more information: www.ivograham.com
