Lucy Porter is set to embark on a national tour from this September, with her ew show - all about regrets. 

Frank Sinatra had too few regrets to mention, but Lucy’s got hundreds, and she’s prepared to go into graphic detail about all of them. Disastrous dates, professional calamities, ruined friendships and parenting fails. ‘No Regrets’ sees Lucy reveal all the mistakes she’s made, works out why they happened, and ponders how her life would have turned out if she’d acted differently. 

Lucy will also look at the thoughts and actions we might all collectively regret - not sticking to the work-life balance we strove for during lockdown, not realising that clapping for the NHS wouldn’t be enough to save it, allowing people we thought were quite fun on TV to become politicians. 

How does regret tie in with guilt and shame? As a middle-aged, middle-class, left-leaning ex-Catholic, guilt is one of Lucy’s top five hobbies (along with going to the garden centre, doing jigsaws, making bread and watching subtitled foreign dramas on Netflix. She’s also ashamed of all these hobbies.)

It’s not all negative though. If you regret something, you can use it to change your ways: see the thing you regret as your rock bottom, and let it spur you on to become a better person. Lucy looks at how she can use shameful or annoying elements from her past to change her future.

Lucy regrets volunteering at the school fete when her kids were younger, because now she’s committed to being the Hook a Duck Lady twice a year for the rest of her life. So maybe this is a life lesson – and maybe she could learn to say “no” a bit more? And maybe 2024 could be the year where she finally, genuinely has No Regrets.

Lucy is a regular face on our television screens, both with her acting work and her many appearances on some of the UK’s most beloved panel shows. She’s appeared on QI with both Sandi and Stephen hosting, she’s been on Mock The Week, Have I Got News for You, and Would I Lie to You.

Her acting work includes a stint in BBC1’s Eastenders as well as the phenomenally successful stage version of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest in Edinburgh and London. 

Lucy’s big passion is quizzing - she hosts the successful Podcast ‘Fingers on Buzzers’ alongside Jenny Ryan AKA The Chase’s Vixen, they have also recently released their debut quiz book. Lucy has achieved some personal quizzing goals by bringing home a Pointless trophy and becoming the Celebrity Mastermind ‘Champion of Champions’. 

She can regularly be heard on BBC Radio 4. She’s starred in her own series “In the Family Way” and is a regular voice on The News Quiz, The Now Show, The Unbelievable Truth and Just a Minute. Lucy is a keen student of comedy history and is on the board of Bristol’s annual Slapstick Festival. 

Tour Dates: For tickets visit www.boundandgaggedcomedy.com

21-Sep-24     MAIDENHEAD            NORDEN FARM

26-Sep-24     TUNBRIDGE WELLS. TRINITY THEATRE

27-Sep-24     HEMEL                      OLD TOWN HALL

28-Sep-24     HEMEL                      OLD TOWN HALL               

03-Oct-24      FINCHLEY                ARTS DEPOT

04-Oct-24      SELBY                       TOWN HALL

05-Oct-24      OTLEY                       COURTHOUSE

11-Oct-24       HAVANT                    THE SPRING

12-Oct-24      HAVANT                    THE SPRING

18-Oct-24      SWINDON                 ARTS CENTRE

19-Oct-24      ALDERSHOT            WEST END CENTRE         

01-Nov-24     BORDON                  PHOENIX ARTS CENTRE

02-Nov-24     TAUNTON                 BREWHOUSE

09-Nov-24     COLCHESTER         ARTS CENTRE

15-Nov-24     BRISTOL                   HEN AND CHICKENS

16-Nov-24     DIDCOT                     CORNERSTONE

22-Nov-24     BASINGSTOKE       THE HAYMARKET

23-Nov-24     COVENTRY              WARWICK ARTS CENTRE

29-Nov-24     NEW MILTON           FOREST ARTS CENTRE

30-Nov-24     MAIDSTONE            HAZLITT

06-Dec-24     GUILDFORD             G LIVE

14-Dec-24     GUILDFORD             G LIVE

17-Jan-25      CAMBRIDGE            JUNCTION

18-Jan-25      EPSOM                      PLAYHOUSE

24-Jan-25      LUTON                       HAT FACTORY

25-Jan-25      LONDON                   BLACKHEATH HALLS

31-Jan-25      FARNHAM                MALTINGS

01-Feb-25      BECCLES                 PUBLIC HALL

07-Feb-25      SHREWSBURY       THEATRE SEVERN

08-Feb-25      LEICESTER              THE Y

09-Feb-25      LINCOLNSHIRE      THE ROPEWALK

14-Feb-25      FOLKESTONE         QUARTERHOUSE

15-Feb-25      ISLE OF WIGHT      QUAY ARTS

22-Feb-25      SOUTHEND              PALACE THEATRE

28-Feb-25      NORWICH                 PLAYHOUSE

01-Mar-25      CRAWLEY                THE HAWTH

07-Mar-25      YORK                        CRESCENT

08-Mar-25      MILTON KEYNES    THE STABLES

14-Mar-25      SOUTHAMPTON     THE ATTIC

15-Mar-25      CHELMSFORD        THEATRE

22-Mar-25      SALISBURY              ARTS CENTRE

23-Mar-25      DORKING                 HALLS

02-Apr-25      BANBURY                 THE MILL

03-Apr-25      LEEDS                       THE WARDROBE

04-Apr-25      BIRMINGHAM           MAC 

05-Apr-25      READING                  SOUTH STREET ARTS CENTRE