New Tour and Special
WINNER of Dave’s Funniest Joke of the Fringe 2024 Mark Simmons has announced his next tour
starting in 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 to bigger rooms than ever including the Hackney Empire, Brighton Corn Exchange, Nottingham Playhouse,
Yvonne Arnaud Guildford, as well as returning to old favourites, The Salford Lowry, Leeds City Varieties, and
many more. Mark’s comedy special – the recorded version of Quip Off the Mark – has just been released as
an online special which can be watched HERE.
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.
