Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow


Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow is a British stand-up comedy television series hosted by comedian Michael McIntyre from different venues around the United Kingdom and Ireland. The first series was broadcast with six episodes in 2009. Each episode features a routine from McIntyre, followed by three other comedians before the headline act. A second six episode series in the same format followed in 2010.
A special one-hour Christmas episode transmitted on 25 December 2011.

Production

The series was commissioned in February 2009 following the success of Live at the Apollo. Hosted by stand-up comedian Michael McIntyre, the series aimed to bring acts "new to a BBC One Saturday night audience". The series is often repeated on Comedy Central and is broadcast in high definition on BBC HD and Comedy Central HD.

Episodes

Series 1 (2009)

EpisodeLocationHeadlinerComediansAirdate
1x01Edinburgh PlayhouseRhod GilbertKevin Bridges
Stewart Francis
Mark Watson		6 June 2009
1x02Manchester ApolloJason ManfordJohn Bishop
Mick Ferry
Sarah Millican		13 June 2009
1x03Birmingham HippodromeShappi KhorsandiSteve Hughes
Tom Stade
Paul Tonkinson		20 June 2009
1x04Swansea Grand TheatreSean LockAlun Cochrane
Ava Vidal
Steve Williams		27 June 2009
1x05Belfast Waterfront HallPatrick KieltyNeil Delamere
Kerry Godliman
Jeff Green		4 July 2009
1x06Brighton DomeAl Murray
Jo Caulfield
Micky Flanagan
Jon Richardson		11 July 2009

Series 2 (2010)

EpisodeLocationHeadlinerComediansAirdate
2x01Glasgow Theatre RoyalKevin BridgesCraig Campbell
Milton Jones
Daniel Sloss		18 September 2010
2x02Sunderland EmpireSarah MillicanSimon Evans
Imran Yusuf
Jimeoin		25 September 2010
2x03Blackpool Grand TheatreJohn BishopTerry Alderton
Miles Jupp
Justin Moorhouse		2 October 2010
2x04Olympia Theatre DublinTommy TiernanKeith Farnan
Andrew Lawrence
Zoe Lyons		9 October 2010
2x05Bristol HippodromeNoel FieldingHal Cruttenden
Mike Gunn
Seann Walsh		16 October 2010
2x06Leeds GrandArdal O'HanlonSean Collins
Andi Osho
Jack Whitehall		23 October 2010

Christmas special (2011)

Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow returned for an hour long Christmas special on 25 December 2011 at 10.30pm.
EpisodeLocationComediansMusical actsAirdate
SpecialTheatre Royal, Drury LaneRob Brydon
James Corden and Miranda Hart
Jack Dee
Rhod Gilbert
Sean Lock
David Mitchell		Pixie Lott
Kylie Minogue		25 December 2011

Broadcast

In Australia, season one and two aired back-to-back on ABC1 each Saturday at 9:20pm from 18 September 2010. Episodes also made available from the ABC iview catch-up service.

Reception

The series peaked with 5.5 million viewers for the first episode, which also gained 1.17 million views on BBC iPlayer, the third highest for the year to 13 December 2009 behind Top Gear. In The Times, David Chater said that "If this roadshow is anything to go by, the quality of stand-up in Britain is at an all-time high." The series was nominated in the Best Comedy Entertainment Programme category for the 2009 British Comedy Awards.
In 2011 the programme was nominated in the National Television Awards but lost out to ITV Comedy, Benidorm. It's also nominated for the Entertainment Award in 2012 as well as Michael being nominated as best Entertainment Performance. The programme won the Entertainment Award, but Michael lost out as presenter to Ant and Dec.

DVD

'Michael Mcintyre's Comedy Roadshow' has not been commercially released onto DVD on its own, however both series are available to watch on demand on services such as Lovefilm and Netflix. Michael's Stand up Segments from Series 1 were collected into a compilation and were included on his 'Hello Wembley DVD' as a special feature. Michael's segments from Series 2 were also placed into a compilation which was included on its own DVD as a content exclusive to the 'Michael Mcintyre Stand Up Collection Boxset' which was released in 2010.