Emmanuel Sonubi - Life After Near Death

17 September 2025
Emmanuel Sonubi - Life After Near Death

ABOUT

Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee and Best Show nominee, Emmanuel Sonubi is back on tour after sold-out performances at the Edinburgh Fringe, his European Tour, and his hit New York Soho Theatre run. 

Emmanuel’s hilarious and heartfelt show explores his life after surviving heart failure, facing the cause of the trauma, and the strange and funny ways we all find to keep going when life gets hard. It’s about turning life’s toughest moments into comedy gold, finding the laughs in survival and the punchlines in perseverance.

One of the UK’s most in-demand comedians, Sonubi is a powerhouse on stage, delivering unstoppable energy, razor-sharp wit, and stories that hit hard as he can and still land even harder. Come and see for yourself… (and bring your glasses)

“Big laughs, engaging tales, you’re seduced by the easy authority of his storytelling” - The Guardian

“A natural, this stand-up is going to be big!” - The Times ★★★★

“This man has funny bones” - Evening Standard ★★★★

★★★★ Entertainment Now

★★★★ ½ One4Review

★★★★ The Comics Comic

As Seen On: 

Live at the Apollo (Host 2024 & Headliner 2022 - BBC), Qi (Guest and Xmas Special Guest - BBC), Celebrity Mastermind (BBC), Have I Got News For You (BBC), Comedy Central Live (Host 2025, Comedy Central) Rosie Jones’ Out Of Order (Comedy Central) Rhod Gilbert’s Growing Pains, (Comedy Central/Apple TV), Mel Giedroyc’s Unforgivable (Dave), Alan Davies’ As Yet Untitled (Dave), The Stand Up Sketch Show (ITV) and to be aired: The Hitlist (BBC), Silence is Golden (U&Dave) & Richard Osmond’s House of Games (BBC).

Awards: 

EDINBURGH COMEDY AWARD NOMINEE: BEST SHOW 2023 

CHORTLE AWARD NOMINEE: BEST CLUB COMEDIAN 2023 

EDINBURGH COMEDY AWARD NOMINEE: BEST NEWCOMER 2022 

NEXT UP COMEDY AWARD: BEST SHOW NOMINEE 2022

DETAILS

Emmanuel Sonubi: Life After Near Death 

17 September 2025, 7:30pm

TIckets: Standard £22.50, Concession £20.50 

 

Age Suitability
16+
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Opened in 1955, The Hazlitt Theatre offers one of the liveliest and community focused programmes of arts and performance in the south east. The Hazlitt Theatre plays host to a wide variety of comedians, musicians, tributes, dance schools, amature dramatics and local and national performers.

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