Olga Koch: Fat Tom Cruise (16+)The Glee Club Birmingham

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Part of Birmingham Comedy Festival, Friday 2 to Sunday 11 October 2026.
For more information, see: www.bhamcomfest.co.uk
Olga Koch has one good story. Only it’s not really her story. Do you wanna hear it?
In Fat Tom Cruise, see the Melbourne and Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated star comb through recent history in an immersive and genre-defying new show.
Directed by Jet Vevers.

Advance price

£17.50 Show Entry
£17.50 Wheelchair Show Entry
+ £2.75 booking fee per ticket

Times

Doors open 7:45 PM
Last entry 8:00 PM

More info

Seating type Unallocated
Food available No
Minimum age 16+

Olga Koch: Fat Tom Cruise – Tour Show 2026

Olga Koch has one good story. Only it’s not really her story. Do you wanna hear it?

In Fat Tom Cruise, see the Melbourne and Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated star comb through recent history in an immersive and genre-defying new show.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ – The Telegraph

★ ★ ★ ★ – The Guardian

★ ★ ★ ★ – The Observer

15 Best Comedy Shows To See at The Edinburgh Fringe in Time Out

Merv’s Pick of the Fringe

Directed by Jet Vevers.

“...another substantial set from one of the fringe’s most reliable purveyors of big-payload comedy”
- The Guardian ★ ★ ★ ★

“...one of the most densely packed informative and joke-heavy shows at the Fringe”
-one4review ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

“...gag-filled... fast-paced and whipsmart”
- Arts Desk ★ ★ ★ ★

“This is the kind of show fringe is for”
- Youngish Perspective ★ ★ ★ ★

“This is the big show Koch has always seemed capable of making... one of those important shows that doesn’t sacrifice the joke count”
- Have You List ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2

“Koch is enormously likeable, and this is a Fringe hour with real substance behind the laughs”
- Entertainment Now ★ ★ ★ ★

“With a typically high joke rate, playful use of the space and smart, dynamic text-heavy staging, Fat Tom Cruise is a forensically constructed hour”
- The Scotsman ★ ★ ★ ★

"This is an hour polished til it sparkles, then polished some more. The result is impressive and as funny as we’ve come to expect from Koch."
- Fest ★ ★ ★ ★

"Koch is at her funniest, most poignant and most polished”
- Comic's Comic ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2

"Koch is an unstoppable force of comedy
- Beyond the Joke ★ ★ ★ ★