Comedian and Taskmaster star brings stand up tour to Ipswich
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Bridget Christie, creator and star of Channel 4’s ‘The Change’, ‘Taskmaster’ legend and Annie in BBC’s ‘Ghosts’, is bringing her new show ‘Jacket Potato Pizza’ to Ipswich this May as part of a UK tour.
Jacket Potato Pizza is Bridget’s fourteenth live show and features tales of a kidney stone, a stray cat and an eye-themed fetish!
The audience can expect a chaotic, sharply funny hour about middle age, menopause, divorce, politics, bodily decline, and the strange liberation of no longer caring what anyone thinks.
Talking ahead of the tour, she said: “I am very much looking forward to eating Motorway services food again and picking my favourite roundabouts. Last year Plymouth won.”
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.
On screen, Bridget’s star-studded, critically acclaimed comedy drama series ‘The Change’ (Channel 4) recently aired its second series. 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.
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) – which 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 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".
Bridget’s book, A Book for Her, also received universal critical acclaim.
As a performer, Bridget Christie has a reputation for being intellectually sharp, deeply weird and emotionally honest. That combination of rage, vulnerability and surreal comedy is her signature style, and ‘Jacket Potato Pizza’ promises to be a brilliantly eccentric midlife meltdown delivered by someone smart enough to turn ranting into an art form.
Bridget Christie is at New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich on 24 May 2026.
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