Suits you, Sir! The Fast Show tour coming to Cambridge in 2025

Following the huge success of the 30th anniversary live shows earlier this year, The Fast Show - “The defining comedy sketch show of the 90s” (The Independent) - is going back on tour in 2025, playing 15 shows across the country including one at the Cambridge Corn Exchange.

An Evening with The Fast Show will see co-creators Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse reunite with Simon Day, John Thomson, Arabella Weir and Mark Williams.

Tickets go on sale at 10am on Thursday, 21 November, from TheFastShow.live.

This celebratory tour will be a huge treat for fans of the multi-award-winning quick-fire TV sketch show and provide a real behind-the-scenes insight into some of their favourite characters and catchphrases as they come alive on stage once again.

The cast will chat about how it all began, how they made the TV show and created the characters and the fun they had doing it.

This will be interspersed with performances of some of their best-loved sketches, monologues and songs, with on-screen inserts and a moment to remember their former collaborator, the late, great Caroline Aherne.

Fans will see the return of many of their favourite characters, including Ted & Ralph, Jesse, Swiss Toni, Does My Bum Look Big in This?, Dave Angel, Jazz Club, the Suit You Tailors, Ron Manager, The Mad Painter, Rowley Birkin, Bob Fleming, Competitive Dad, Professor Denzil Dexter, and The Girl Who Boys Can’t Hear.

Charlie Higson said: “The Fast Show was all about repetition, catchphrases and familiar characters. So we’re going to repeat our last tour with the same catchphrases and characters.

“Hopefully audiences will believe it’s all new material.”

Paul Whitehouse added: “The Fast Show back on tour again, sir? Oooooh - suit you, madam!”

The Fast Show was first shown on BBC2 on 27 September 1994 and became one of the nation’s best-loved comedy programmes, having a huge influence on subsequent TV sketch shows.