Mock The Week star Rhys James has a Nottingham date on UK tour

Chop Logic will be a fast, forensic show of big ideas and gag-dense overthinking from one of the nation’s sharpest stand-ups.

And it will be coming to Nottingham next year.

Rhys has made a discovery that could fix everything.

It’s been staring him in the face the whole time, in a mirror held behind his head.

If he can ignore his own problems for long enough, he might just be able to solve yours.

He said: “It’s been three years since I last did a tour and frankly I didn’t know if I would ever again.

"But then I accidentally left a stool sample on a train and came up with a way to fix the whole country and those aren’t the sorts of things you can just keep to yourself.”

Rhys’s sardonic wit and sharp writing, paired with his playful comedic style, have established him as a firm favourite on the British comedy scene, selling out two national tours and six Edinburgh Fringe runs.

At the beginning of 2026, he was announced as the sole weekly series regular on TLC’s rebooted Mock The Week.

The revival of the beloved topical panel show has been a massive hit for the channel and the revival has already been commissioned for a second series to air later this year.

Rhys’s previous stand-up show, Spilt Milk, toured across over 70 dates, before being released as a special and as a debut DVD.

Since then, Rhys has released another series of his ARIA-nominated BBC Radio 4 series Rhysearch and published his debut memoir ,You’ll Like It When You Get There: A Life Lived Reluctantly.

An introvert’s manifesto, an overthinker’s dossier, the diary of a wimpy kid – Rhys’s ‘dread memoir’ is a guide to life from someone who doesn’t want to do anything, and an exploration of why you possibly shouldn’t either.

He will be bringing all this and more to Nottingham Playhouse on April 3 next year.

Tickets are on sale now at rhysjames.co.uk