Comedian Zoe Lyons has announced an extensive UK tour for 2023. The ‘Bald Ambition Tour’ takes in 39 dates and starts on Thursday 2nd February at Edinburgh’s The Stand and culminates on Sunday 30th April at Plymouth’s Quad Theatre.
Zoe has kept herself busy in the last couple of years by having what can best be described as a monumental midlife crisis after turning 50. This involved buying a sports car, having a brief marital separation from her partner of 23 years and running a 100k ultra marathon which really didn’t end well. She even turned her back on her career and started delivering vegetables from a van. Along the way her hair decided the best thing to do was abandon ship. It ain’t easy being a middle aged woman: but try doing it with a combover! Thankfully Zoe has been able to explore the funny side of all these twists and turns. Now it's time to sell the silly car and try and put the wheels back on her life.
'I'm beyond excited to be touring again in 2023, what with going mad during lockdown and getting a job driving a van, running 100km races, and my alopecia recurring with a vengeance...I need to be back to my first love - the stage! So please come and see my most personal show yet and help me out of my (late) midlife crisis.' ZOE LYONS
Lyons is the host of BBC2’s Lightning and Live at the Apollo, and guest co-host of Sunday Morning Live (BBC1) and The Frank Skinner radio show (Absolute). She is a regular on Have I Got News for You (BBC1), QI (BBC2), and Mock the Week (BBC2). Other TV includes a special on Alopecia for Women’s Health (C5), a feature on The One Show (BBC1), Celebrity MasterChef (BBC1) Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (BBC2), Stand Up and Deliver (C4), House of Games (BBC2), Funny Festival Live (BBC2), Guessable (Comedy Central) and many more shows.
There have also been reports that Lyons is joining C4 series Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins.
Zoe can be heard on Radio 4 regularly on The News Quiz, Just a Minute, The Unbelievable Truth and The Now Show, and her own two part series Passport Paddy. Other radio includes Breaking the News, The Good the Bad and the Unexpected, Fred MacAulay at The Stand, and the Jason Manford Show. Podcasts include Walking the Dog, An Hour or So with Sue Perkins, James Acaster Stay Home Special Series and The Guilty Feminist. She also co-hosts her own podcast with Stephen Bailey ‘Don’t Talk About The Husband’ for Acast.
She performs regularly at the Edinburgh Festival. Her shows ‘Entry Level Human’ (which is available on Next Up and Amazon Prime), ‘Mustard Cutter’ and ‘Little Miss Misfit’, have all toured the UK and been praised by critics and audiences alike. She has also performed at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, Latitude, Kilkenny and Pride Festivals. She also hosts her own award-winning monthly comedy night in Brighton – Bent Double. She is the winner of Dave’s Joke of the Fringe, Comedian’s Comedian of the Year, and The Funny Women Award, and at the start of her career was nominated for the Edinburgh Best Newcomer Comedy Award.
Zoe is a trained actor, who performed the lead role in the play An Act of God at the Vaults in London in 2019. Theatre also includes Outings at the Gilded Balloon, Hedda Gabler at the Workhouse Theatre and Shut Up I’m Your Mother at the Gilded Balloon.
Her hobbies include diving, ultra-marathons, paddle-boarding and her chosen specialist subjects on Celebrity Mastermind were Quentin Crisp and Jacques Cousteau. On her socials she talks about a variety of topics including her alopecia, wild swimming and her trusted companion Groucho Barks the Jack Terrier.
