Who wouldn’t want to spend a couple of hours in the company of the urbane and loquacious Rob Brydon? We’re convinced his reassuringly dry tones are behind nearly every advert voiceover on television, not to mention his terrestrial ubiquity on shows such as ‘Would I lie To You’ and the gloriously hilarious ‘The Trip’. ‘I Am Standing Up…’ is Brydon’s first tour since 2009 and has already sold out one night at The Symphony Hall so don’t hang about.

Sun 5 Nov 8pm at Symphony Hall, Broad St, Birmingham B1 2EA £30 www.thsh.co.uk

Read the rest of our November comedy picks here.