One Night Stand (up): Callum Oakley & Rob Thomas

Callum Oakley and Rob Thomas are taking the stage at Social on Wednesday 3 February, 2027. It's a double bill of two very different styles of stand-up sharing one night, so you'll get two distinct approaches to comedy in a single sitting.

Oakley is the younger of the two, having started out in comedy at 14. He made his TV debut in 2012 when he reached the semi-finals of Britain's Got Talent, and since then he's worked the UK club circuit, playing rooms like Jongleurs and the Manchester Comedy Store. David Walliams once described him as "a stand-up comic so young and so brilliant."

Thomas works from a different angle entirely. He's a physical storytelling comic, and that physicality is what usually gets pointed out in the reviews. The London Evening Standard gave him a Critics' Choice, and Bruce Dessau of The Guardian named him the night's strongest performer, noting his "superior physical presence". The Yorkshire Times called one of his shows "a triumph" of "tremendous relentless physicality". He's also got a competitive streak with puns: he reached the final of the UK Pun Championships in 2018, took silver in the same competition in 2015, placed second in the Leicester Square Old Comedian of the Year in 2017, and was a finalist in the Reading Comedy Festival New Act of the Year in 2014.

Between the two of them, you've got Oakley's early start and club experience alongside Thomas's physical storytelling and punning record. The show starts at 8:00pm at Social, 63 Humber Street, Hull, HU1 1TU, and tickets are £13.75, which includes the booking fee.