An Evening with The Fast Show

A live comedy show drawing on the sketches of The Fast Show, staged at Leeds First Direct Bank Arena, which brings the series' recurring characters and routines to the stage.

An Evening with The Fast Show is a comedy show built around the sketches of The Fast Show, the British sketch series first broadcast on television. The evening is a live performance of character-based comedy, with the recurring figures and routines of the original programme performed in person rather than on screen. It is aimed at audiences who enjoy sketch comedy, including those who followed the series when it was first broadcast and those who know it from later repeats and DVDs.

The show takes place at Leeds First Direct Bank Arena, a venue in Leeds that hosts concerts and shows. Its format is a single live comedy performance, with the material arranged as a sequence of sketches and monologues delivered to the audience by the performers on stage. Because the show is a live staging of established comic characters, the appeal lies in seeing familiar sketches performed in front of an audience, and in the pacing and timing that only a live delivery can bring to them.