‘Kealy takes comedy a step further and creates something so technically clever that it’s almost beautiful…A career-defining show.’ 

★★★★★ Broadway Baby

After an acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Fringe, and fresh from supporting Jack Dee on tour, Alex Kealy (The Now Show, Gig Pigs with Ivo Graham) brings The Fear on a tour between February and July 2025. Last year, 2024, was the best year of Alex’s life. He got married and is, bluntly, happy. But if you’re an anxious overthinker and it’s going well, you just start thinking about when it’ll all end. You get “the fear”.

But what’s at the root of these personal anxieties? If Alex cannot win the war with the voices in his head, can’t he at least achieve a plausible UN-administered power-sharing agreement with them? Is it possible to achieve a positive transformation of your psychological make-up if you’re not cool enough to take Ayahuasca?

Don’t be too afraid of ’The Fear’, though – there’ll also be loads of great jokes fashioned out of his over-examination of coffee machines, the book of Ephesians, duty-free shopping, monarchy, how love is like totalitarianism, beach holidays, death, losing your voice, organised religion and Toblerone.

In his first year of performing, he reached the final of the prestigious So You Think You’re Funny competition. He has since taken six hours of stand-up to the Edinburgh Fringe, including 2022’s Winner Takes All, which made The Times’s Top Jokes of the Fringe and received a host of 4-star reviews before a sell-out run at the Soho Theatre and a subsequent national tour. 

Meanwhile, on the live circuit, he can be seen performing full weekends at the biggest comedy clubs in the country, including The Comedy Store, The Glee Clubs, Brighton Komedia and Monkey Barrel. He’s also supported Jack Dee, Ivo Graham, Shaparak Khorsandi, Tatty Macleod, Tom Rosenthal and Pierre Novellie on their national tours

Alex Kealy is a stand-up comedian who mixes smart political material with self-deprecation and relatable observations. But his talent is not only in the delivery, he is also an in-demand joke writer, Alex regularly writes for shows including Mock The Week (BBC Two), The News Quiz and The Now Show (both BBC Radio 4), as well as Turtle Canyon Comedy’s Grave New World (‘a fresh perspective, stylised writing and high gag rate’ – Beyond The Joke).

To find out when his tour is visiting a venue near you, please checkout his website