An Audience With Mick Miller

Mick Miller is a comedy legend who first came to fame on ITV’s “New Faces”. Having won his heat, he started getting more theatre work and that led to the TV producer, Johnnie Hamp selecting him to become a regular on the hit TV show, “The Comedians”.
After many years in showbiz, he gained a whole new following by performing in Comedy Clubs with new young comedy talent. He is still in demand for cruise ship work and has worked on some of the best cruise liners in the world as a guest entertainer.
His performance on the 2011 Royal Variety show was a highlight of his career. He was also doing a bit of acting as well, which he really enjoyed. But, if you ask him about his favourite performance, he would say, “Probably, Las Vegas!”
Mick has had a long and successful career and this show not only features a full comedy set from him, he is interviewed in the 2nd half of the show by our host, Ryan Gleeson.
Ryan is an accomplished stand-up comedian and comedy club owner who performs a short comedy set at the start of the show and interviews Mick in the 2nd half of the show.

Ryan Gleeson Info

Blackpool’s Ryan Gleeson first started stand-up comedy in 1997, at just 16 years old. In 2002, he became the resident compere of the Comedy Station Comedy Club, after which he rapidly became an in-demand comedian and compere, working in the biggest comedy clubs across the U.K.
Ryan is a multi-award-winning comedian in his own right, picking up no fewer than 5 awards over his career.
He was shortlisted for some very prestigious awards, such as City Life Comedian of the Year, three times. Previous winners of this award are Peter Kay, Steve Coogan, John Bishop and many, many more. In 2003, Ryan reached the semi-finals of Channel 4’s So, You Think You’re Funny, which led to him appearing on the show, recorded at the Edinburgh Festival.

He has performed stand-up comedy on T.V. shows such as This Morning, ITV’s Richard Hammond’s 5 O’clock Show, Channel 4’s So, You Think You’re Funny? And presented his very own chat show Talk Lancashire.

Ryan was also selected to become one of the first ever hosts of the brand-new Crystal Maze live experience, in Manchester, guiding contestants around the four zones of the Maze, from the original Channel 4 series, (including the cast of Coronation Street), to the Crystal Dome. In 2019, Ryan appeared in Mike Leigh’s film Peterloo, about the Petersfield Massacre, in Manchester.

As well as performing as a comedian, all over the world, Ryan has hosted some huge events, most recently, he was asked to host the British Beard & Moustache Championships, in Blackpool’s Winter Gardens, which attracted over 200 contestants, from over 20 countries and is actually the second largest such event in the world.

Quotes:
“The Bruce Lee of comedy…deadly, will kill in one quip…and rather thin” Grin Up North

“Bloody brilliant” John Bishop

“There’s pace all over the place with Ryan Gleeson. Effortlessly switching from heckle put downs to surreal routines, to plain, hard-hitting punchlines” MCF

Age Guidance: Suitable For Ages 16+