AS BRAND NEW UK TOUR IS ANNOUNCED INCLUDING SHEPHERD’S BUSH EMPIRE
“truly exceptional”
Rolling Stone
“Musical comedy hasn’t been in such safe hands for years”
The List
The multi-award-winning duo, Flo & Joan, aka Nicola and Rosie Dempsey, will make their Sky Comedy debut this month as their hit comedy-music special Sweet Release will air on the channel, following the runaway success of their previous comedy special Alive On Stage for Amazon Prime. Sweet Release is set to air on Sky Comedy, as well as on Now TV, on Monday 15th December.
Sweet Release is the musical pair’s latest hour of critically acclaimed songs and comedy. Their unique, sharp-tongued style has taken them around the world and the internet with multiple sell-out tours, millions of views online, and now they are gifting to you one final exhibition of the hit show. Sweet Release is their fifth full-length show, on stage it totalled 148 performances and was twice-extended to meet phenomenal demand for tickets, including runs at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Regular faces on television, they have performed on Live at the Apollo (BBC Two), The Royal Variety Performance (ITV 1), Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day Live 2023 (BBC One), and their own comedy special ‘Alive on Stage’ for Amazon Prime which is now streaming in over 200 countries across the world, while their songs regularly go viral online with over 100 million views across social media.
The news arrives as Flo & Joan recently announced a live tour for 2026 with the brand-new show With Feeling. The acclaimed double act are set to perform over 50 dates across the UK, including London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire on Wednesday 21st October 2026, with their latest merging of music and comedy.
A hugely acclaimed live act, they have enjoyed numerous festival appearances at Glastonbury, Latitude, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and JFL Montreal Comedy Festival. On stage, the pair stormed the Edinburgh Fringe, Melbourne Fringe, and the West End earlier this year with their debut musical One Man Musical; a one-act biographical comedy musical which they created and performed, starring George Fouracres (Hamlet in Hamlet at Shakespeare’s Globe, London) and directed by Georgie Staight (Operation Mincemeat). Originating at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe, the show transferred to London and Australia, and went on to pick up multiple accolades including #1 Comedy Show of 2024 in The Guardian, Best Show of 2024 at the Chortle Awards, was nominated for Most Outstanding Show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2025 and a Stage Debut Award 2025 for Best Composer, Lyricist or Book Writer.
As writers, the pair have previously written songs for the West End musical Death Drop, and written and performed songs for Evil (CBS/Paramount Plus), BBC Digital, Question Team (C4), Aardman, Horrible Histories (CBBC), Radio Times, Mark Watson Talks a Bit About Life, The Now Show and Fresh From the Fringe (all BBC Radio 4) and This Hour Has 22 Minutes (Canadian Broadcasting Company).
WHAT THE PRESS HAS SAID ABOUT FLO & JOAN
“extraordinary… #1 Comedy Show of 2024”
The Guardian
“these intricately crafted, flawlessly performed numbers will have you howling with laughter one minute, wiping away a tear the next”
The Telegraph ★★★★
“Flo & Joan coat every moment with jokes, jokes, jokes”
The Times ★★★★
“They’ve just crammed in jokes… brilliantly written, superbly performed”
The Stage ★★★★★
“[they] briefly appear to be a jolly musical double act, but tear that to pieces about two bars into the first, perfectly timed song”
Sunday Times ★★★★
“Their style is stiletto sharp, their diction perfect as they race through their complex rhymes”
Evening Standard
“an absolute blast”
Chortle ★★★★
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