Peter Kay, the Lancashire comedian behind Phoenix Nights, played his first London night of 2025 at The O2 arena on his tour Better Late Than Never.
Peter Kay, the Lancashire comedian who created Phoenix Nights, played The O2 arena in North Greenwich on Saturday 25 January 2025. It was his first London night of the year on his tour Better Late Than Never.
Kay was born in Farnworth, Lancashire, in 1973. Before comedy he worked in a toilet roll factory, a Netto supermarket and a bingo hall, and was sacked from each within a few months.
He studied media performance at the University of Salford and began doing stand-up at the Frog & Bucket in Manchester in 1996. In 1997 he won Channel 4’s So You Think You’re Funny.
Better Late Than Never was his first stand-up tour in 12 years. He announced it in November 2022, five years after he cancelled his previous tour for family reasons.
The O2 calls him the first artist to hold a monthly residency at the arena. By early 2025 he had played 45 shows there, more than any other act in its history.