Thousands of comedy fans gave Peter Kay a standing ovation as he made his live return after several years away, with two quickly sold-out charity shows at the Manchester Apollo on Saturday.
The Bolton comic was taking part in two Q&A sessions, called Doing it for Laura, at the 3,500 capacity venue.The live gigs, which sold out within 30 minutes on release last week, marked a rare public appearance for one of the nation's best-loved comedians. And Kay said that getting back on stage was like "getting in a hot bath".
Soon after her initial diagnosis, Laura's mum Nicola said the family received an unexpected call from Kay, who she had previously met nearly 20 years ago when working at Granada television.Lateral flow joke The first show, which ended as it started with a standing ovation, ran over by an hour, causing the evening crowd to queue in the rain for a later-than-advertised second instalment.Funds raised from the event will go mostly towards Ms Nuttall's treatment, but with some cash going to the Brain Tumour Charity.
Just finished reading his latest book, very funny, the area he writes about is where I lived for about 12 years. Hope he gets back soon doing what he does best, the wife can't stop laughing when she sees the re runs.
ah, master of the English toilet brush humour.
Apparently a very unpleasant man
The UK really needs peterkay_co_uk right now... Actually the world needs Peter Kay! My favorite British Comedian. He's so talented he never has to resort to being 'blue'.
Great news! Love the guy.
Legend 👏
NationalTreasure.
Remember that time he said GARLIC BREAD 😂
Hope he's well but bet he was still doing the same old jokes
Did he talk about shitty supermarket cola and how crap rich teas are at dunking into tea etc? Cracks me up that patter.
Here right now. Amazing atmosphere