Harley Young is left in stitches after catching this set from the comedy festival’s opening act
Who: Paddy Young, a British comedian who featured on the first series of Saturday Night Live UK.
What: A Lovely Weekend Comedy Festival
Where: Fairfield Social Club
When: Friday 29 May 2026
A Lovely Weekend says: Star of SNL UK Paddy Young kicks us off with some new ideas that might seem scary to some but hilarious to all.
It’s never easy to kick off a comedy show - let alone kick off a full weekend of comedy shows - but Scarborough-born comedian Paddy Young made it look easy as he had the entirety of Fairfield Social Club in hysterics on Friday night (29 May).
The star of Saturday Night Live UK took the audience on a journey of awkward confessions and comically relatable rambles with his new work-in-progress show ‘Will Sir Be Laughing Alone?’.
Throwing in some back-and-forth crowd-work here and there, Paddy was quick to summon off-the-cuff jokes that had the room erupting into laughter. He’d even brushed up on his Mancunian knowledge, dishing out witty digs at those that looked like they’d travelled in from typically ‘posher’ areas of the city like Didsbury and Chorlton.
Adding in a couple of uncomfortable pauses that just got funnier and more awkward the longer they were left and concluding his performance by recruiting a member of the front row to reenact the most bizarre ‘screen play’ we’d ever heard, Paddy had concocted the perfect recipe for a side-splitting set, receiving a thunderous and well-deserved applause.
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