Overview

• Recent TikTok posts from ticketholders describe parts of the Better Late Than Never shows as recycled, stale, or more like light entertainment than stand-up.
• Critics cite extended singalongs and 1980s TV advert jingles, with a few saying they left during the interval at venues including Belfast.
• One video questioned whether the comedian was worth the two-year wait for tickets, referencing travel from Plymouth to a Manchester date.
• Other fans pushed back, calling the negativity a social media trend and arguing Peter Kay remains an iconic observer of everyday life.
• The long-running tour, which began in December 2022 and continues to sell out, has also seen isolated heckling incidents, and the Mirror says it has asked Kay’s representatives for comment.