A major Muslim comedy tour is heading to Blackburn as part of UK tour.

The Super Muslim Comedy Tour will be performed at the Ivy Venue on Newton Street on Friday, October 28.

Acts include Fathiya Saleh – a Londoner with Yemeni-Somali roots – to Atheer Yacoub, a Palestinian-American comedienne hailing from Alabama who has a half-hour special on Comedy Central Arabia and has been featured on AXSTV's Gotham Comedy Live.

She has also written for the Emmy award-winning channel BRIC TV on The Breakdown and Passport Control.

Also flying in from the US is Azeem Muhammad, who uses comedy as a way of sharing his experience as a Muslim man in America and opening up about his conversion to Islam.

The tour’s co-founder Yousaf Razaq said: “It’s an environment where you can take a 5-year-old, you can take a 95-year-old, you can take your mum, your sister, your daughter, your auntie, go and have some fun as a family and literally just have a belly of laughs and in the process give money to charity.”

The tour will also be visiting East London, North London, Leicester, Derby, Glasgow, Bolton, Manchester, Bradford, and Birmingham.

The annual show is organised by Penny Appeal, an international humanitarian charity working in over 30 countries worldwide.

Proceeds of this year’s tour will benefit people affected who have lost their livelihoods due to the recent Pakistan floods. You can find out more at pennyappeal.org.