Winner of Dave’s Funniest Joke of the Fringe 2024, Mark Simmons, will tour to Mayflower Studios on Wednesday 28 January 2026.
His debut tour, Quip Off the Mark, lasted three years, with over 215 dates over across the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand and sold over 25,000 tickets. Along the way he picked up a Joke of the Fringe Award in 2024, alongside Danny Ward, won the Victoria Wood Panel Prize at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, and won the Comic’s Comic of the year in 2022.
The new show, Jest to Impress, is another hour of back to back finely crafted gags from the master of one liners. He is taking the show around the UK, including Mayflower Studios, Southampton.
Mark has previously appeared in ITV’s Out There, Mock The Week, BBC Radio 4Extra Stands Up, a Channel 4 pilot starring alongside Bridget Christie, as well as BBC3’s One For The Road. Mark also presents his popular podcast, Jokes With Mark Simmons, where he invites a fellow comic to discuss jokes that they’ve written but just haven’t worked, and see if there is a way to salvage them or should they simply be thrown on the rubbish heap. This has featured the likes of Rob Beckett, Milton Jones, and Seann Walsh.
Tickets for Mark Simmons (28 January 2026) are on sale at mayflower.org.uk or 02380 711811.
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