DAVE Spikey will return to the district in September when he performs his latest live show at King’s Hall in Ilkley.

A Funny Thing Happened is the title of the stand-up comedy show, which is recommended for an audience aged 16-plus.

A spokesman said the new show was based on the fact that funny things happened all the time.

She said: “Normal events don’t catch the eye but Dave’s special radar instinctively draws him to the small out-of-the-ordinary events and conversations that wash over most of us and pass us by.

“Once identified, he applies his unique style of exaggerating and elaborating them whilst reminding us that we too have not only witnessed them, it’s probably happened to us!

“It’s this added dimension, this comedy of association that elevates the event to laugh-out-loud funny.”

Time Out magazine said Dave was “not only a very funny comedian but one of the finest raconteurs around.”

Visit bradford-theatres.co.uk or call 01274 432000 to book tickets.

Dave Spikey spent over 30 years working for the health service, before ending up writing sitcoms, appearing in TV programmes and touring with his own show.

He was co-writer and co-star of Channel 4’s That Peter Kay Thing and Phoenix Nights, writer and co-star of ITV’s Dead Man Weds.