“You’d better be funny,” yelled a heckler at the start of Jason Manford’s Palladium set. It might have sounded like a threat but it was really a playful request from someone who just wanted to forget their troubles for an evening. I'm sure the fan went home satisfied. When if comes to delivering the funnies, few do it better than Manford.
He is versatile too. He plays a headmaster in TV drama Waterloo Road, he presents daytime quiz The Answer Run and if he seems relaxed onstage that might partly be due to the fact that he starred here as the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz in 2023.
