KIELL SMITH-BYNOE
BRINGS
SMASH-HIT IMPROVISED COMEDY SHOW
KOOL STORY BRO
TO SOUTHEND'S PALACE THEATRE, WESTCLIFF
SUNDAY 17TH MAY 2026
“This magnetic performer’s great improv shows always prove a hit”
Evening Standard
BRINGS
SMASH-HIT IMPROVISED COMEDY SHOW
KOOL STORY BRO
TO SOUTHEND'S PALACE THEATRE, WESTCLIFF
SUNDAY 17TH MAY 2026
“This magnetic performer’s great improv shows always prove a hit”
Evening Standard
Kiell Smith-Bynoe, star of Ghosts, Taskmaster, and Stath Lets Flats, brings his smash-hit, sell-out improvised comedy show Kool Story Bro to Southend. Featuring some of the best improvisers in the country and a slew of celebrity guests, the show will play at the Palace Theatre Westcliff on Sunday 17 May 2026.
Since its inception in 2023, Kiell Smith-Bynoe’s brilliantly interactive show has quickly become one of the most exciting nights out for comedy fans in the UK. Using stories from the audience, Kiell and his castmates create wildly unpredictable, relentlessly funny and intricately interconnected longform scenes. Now, following multiple sold-out runs in Edinburgh and London and a tour in early 2025, even bigger audiences across the country will have a chance to share their ridiculous and embarrassing anecdotes and inspire completely unscripted shenanigans from a cast featuring some of the most in-demand comedians and actors working today, including Emma Sidi, Lola-Rose Maxwell, Graham Dickson, and many more.
The kicker? At each show, Kiell and his cast will be joined by a top-secret celebrity guest to help grill the crowd and even participate in a bit of story-sharing themselves. Previous special guests have included the likes of Lily Allen, Amelia Dimoldenburg, Adam Buxton, Guz Khan, Mo Gilligan, Charlotte Ritchie, Frankie Boyle, Mathew Baynton, Joe Wilkinson, Rose Matafeo, Katy Wix, and Jessica Knappett. An equally starry set of favourites from the world of film, TV and music will join the gang in 2026, for a run of shows that promise to be as brilliantly bizarre and unexpected as ever.
Kiell says: “At every show I say "make some noise if you've never seen improv before" and it's usually about 40% of the audience, which means the concept is still new to so many people. On our biggest tour yet I'm hoping to change that”
Since its inception in 2023, Kiell Smith-Bynoe’s brilliantly interactive show has quickly become one of the most exciting nights out for comedy fans in the UK. Using stories from the audience, Kiell and his castmates create wildly unpredictable, relentlessly funny and intricately interconnected longform scenes. Now, following multiple sold-out runs in Edinburgh and London and a tour in early 2025, even bigger audiences across the country will have a chance to share their ridiculous and embarrassing anecdotes and inspire completely unscripted shenanigans from a cast featuring some of the most in-demand comedians and actors working today, including Emma Sidi, Lola-Rose Maxwell, Graham Dickson, and many more.
The kicker? At each show, Kiell and his cast will be joined by a top-secret celebrity guest to help grill the crowd and even participate in a bit of story-sharing themselves. Previous special guests have included the likes of Lily Allen, Amelia Dimoldenburg, Adam Buxton, Guz Khan, Mo Gilligan, Charlotte Ritchie, Frankie Boyle, Mathew Baynton, Joe Wilkinson, Rose Matafeo, Katy Wix, and Jessica Knappett. An equally starry set of favourites from the world of film, TV and music will join the gang in 2026, for a run of shows that promise to be as brilliantly bizarre and unexpected as ever.
Kiell says: “At every show I say "make some noise if you've never seen improv before" and it's usually about 40% of the audience, which means the concept is still new to so many people. On our biggest tour yet I'm hoping to change that”