Peter Kay, whose previous tour set a Guinness world record for stand-up, played a March night of his monthly residency at The O2 arena in North Greenwich.
Peter Kay, whose previous stand-up tour set a Guinness world record, played The O2 arena in North Greenwich on Thursday 20 March 2025. The show was part of his tour Better Late Than Never.
Born in Farnworth in 1973, Kay won Channel 4’s So You Think You’re Funny in 1997. A year later his show at the Edinburgh Fringe was nominated for the Perrier Award.
His first solo tour, Mum Wants a Bungalow, ran 89 dates in 2002 and 2003. In 2009 he announced four nights at Manchester Arena for the following spring, and demand turned them into 20 and then a national tour.
That tour, The Tour That Doesn’t Tour Tour, played to 1.2 million people. In 2012 it entered Guinness World Records as the most successful stand-up tour of all time.
Better Late Than Never was his first tour since. The March night belonged to his monthly residency at The O2, where he had played 45 shows by early 2025.