Neema Naz & Marc Anthony Sinagoga || CREATURES COMEDY

When viral juggernaut Neema Naz flies in from Tehran-by-way-of-Toronto and Toronto’s own pasta-powered punch-line machine Marc-Anthony Sinagoga rolls out of Nonna’s basement, Manchester becomes the comedy crossroads of 2025.

Neema Naz – the Iranian-Canadian who turned 2014 open-mic nights into a global empire – headlines. After launching his career in Toronto clubs, Neema’s 2022 “I’m Your Sugar Daddy” tour sold 15,000 tickets from L.A. to Melbourne, earned co-signs from Kevin Hart, Gary Vee and Gordon Ramsay, and stacked 1.5 billion digital views with his razor-sharp takes on immigrant family guilt, dating apps and Persian-parent psychology. 2025 sees him circling the planet with his new hour “My Estupid Life,” a confessional ride through therapy, thirty-something panic and why every aunt still thinks he’s a doctor. Catch him before Amazon’s “The Boys” and the indie rom-com “Please, After You” make him too famous to insult your city.

Joining him is Marc-Anthony Sinagoga, the self-described “overweight Italian who refuses to fit the family pizza-box.” Marc’s storytelling weaponises Nonna’s wooden spoon, his father’s construction-site wisdom and the Premier of Ontario’s accidental vowels. In three short years he has rocketed from Brantford Comedy Festival champion to Just For Laughs Originals taping, racking up 50 million views (@notmarcanthony) as the tracksuited Italian Grandpa who roasts TikTok trends and a pitch-perfect Doug Ford who blames the carbon tax for broken lasagna. Offstage he’s a trained actor and festival favourite (Dallas, Big Pine, Halifax); onstage he’s a human espresso – loud, warm, impossible to spill.

Together they are “The Sugar & Sauce Tour”: two immigrants, two passports, two completely different household smells. The show ping-pongs between Neema’s polished, world-travelled precision and Marc’s theatrical, family-impression chaos. One minute Neema dissects Persian guilt-trips; the next Marc’s Nonna FaceTimes from the woodshed. Expect audience interrogations, bilingual cursing, a live re-enactment of Lady-and-the-Tramp spaghetti (yes, with audience volunteers), and an encore rap battle in Farsi vs. Calabrese dialect. It’s culture-clash comedy that proves every family is crazy—only the accents change.

Manchester’s historic [venue] hosts the sole UK date before Neema heads to Dubai and Marc flies to Montreal. Limited seats, unlimited pasta references. Bring a date, bring Nonna, bring your citizenship papers—these two are stamping passports and punch-lines at the same time.