--- title: "Dave Spikey: Comedian, Specials & TV Roles | D.O.C." description: "Dave Spikey: 2 stand-up specials and 6 screen credits. A stand-up comedian who won the City Life North West Comedian of the Year title in 1991." url: https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-dave-spikey.html updated: 2026-11-13 --- Stand-up comedian # Dave Spikey ## Who Dave Spikey is Dave Spikey is a stand-up comedian who won the City Life North West Comedian of the Year title in 1991. He performed as half of the double act Spikey and Sykey and hosted the game show Chain Letters from 1997. He co-wrote That [Peter Kay](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-peter-kay.html) Thing and Phoenix Nights with Peter Kay and starred in the latter as compere Jerry St Clair, a show that won Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards in 2002. He has toured with Overnight Success, which sold 75,000 DVD copies, and Living The Dream, and later with Best Medicine, and he has been a regular team captain on 8 Out of 10 Cats since 2005. ## Follow Dave Spikey Put Dave Spikey in your D.O.C., your twelve, and the free D.O.C. letter brings their new dates, episodes and videos each week. Saw Dave Spikey live? [Make a card →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/share-my-doc.html#live) ## At a glance **Stand-up specials** Overnight Success and Best Medicine Tour Live **On screen** Phoenix Nights, That Peter Kay Thing, Chain Letters and 3 more ## Is Dave Spikey on tour? **No upcoming dates on record** No upcoming dates are on record right now. That doesn't mean Dave Spikey has stopped touring; follow Dave Spikey to hear when the next ones are booked. Last checked 13 November 2026. ### Is Dave Spikey coming to my town? No dates are on record right now (checked 13 November 2026), so no town is confirmed yet. Follow Dave Spikey and your town to hear when one is booked. ### Want Dave Spikey in your town? Name your town and how many of you would come: the towns fans ask for show here, with how many asked. Lineups belong to the rooms and the comedians, and can change; each listing has the last word. [Their nights on the Comedy Calendar →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedy-calendar.html) [Build a night out with Dave Spikey →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/build-my-comedy-night.html) ## Specials, shows and podcasts ### Stand-up specials - **Overnight Success** - **Best Medicine Tour Live** ### On screen - **Phoenix Nights** - **That Peter Kay Thing** - **Chain Letters** - **Dead Man Weds** - **Bullseye** - **8 Out of 10 Cats** ## Comedians like Dave Spikey Each linked to them by something on the record — a stage they both came through, a bill, a show, a style or a home town. - [Duncan Norvelle](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-duncan-norvelle.html) also in Bullseye - [Godfrey](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-godfrey.html) also in Bullseye - [Jo Enright](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-jo-enright.html) also in Phoenix Nights - [Justin Moorhouse](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-justin-moorhouse.html) also in Phoenix Nights - [Peter Kay](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-peter-kay.html) also in That Peter Kay Thing - [Steve Royle](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-steve-royle.html) also in Phoenix Nights [Six Degrees of Komic Bacon: how they connect to anyone →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/six-degrees-of-komic-bacon.html) [Every stand-up comedian with a page, A to Z →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/stand-up-comedians.html) ## Questions and answers ### Where is Dave Spikey performing next? No date is on D.O.C.'s Comedy Calendar right now. ### What stand-up specials have they released? Overnight Success and Best Medicine Tour Live. ### What TV shows and films are they in? Phoenix Nights, That Peter Kay Thing, Chain Letters, Dead Man Weds, Bullseye and 8 Out of 10 Cats. ### Who are some comedians like them? [Duncan Norvelle](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-duncan-norvelle.html) (also in Bullseye), [Godfrey](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-godfrey.html) (also in Bullseye), [Jo Enright](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-jo-enright.html) (also in Phoenix Nights), [Justin Moorhouse](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-justin-moorhouse.html) (also in Phoenix Nights) and [Peter Kay](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-peter-kay.html) (also in That Peter Kay Thing). ## Are you Dave Spikey? This page can be your website, free. Send your bio in your own words, your links, your clips, who books you, a line said about you and your weekly show, and they go on this page beside the dates D.O.C. already keeps. Fans follow you here and get your news in the D.O.C. letter. Your short address, for your bio: **disciplesofcomedy.com/dave-spikey** [Make this page yours →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-profile.html) [Your dates on your own site](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/tour-dates-widget.html) [Your show on a poster](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedy-show-flyer-maker.html) ## The full SUCDb record The full record — the career in order, the specials and credits, and the sources for each — is on SUCDb, with a button to add them to your D.O.C., your twelve. [Their SUCDb record →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-dave-spikey.html) ### Sources - [Chortle · chortle.co.uk ↗](https://www.chortle.co.uk/comics/d/3133/dave_spikey) City Life North West Comedian of the Year 1991; Spikey and Sykey; Chain Letters; writing with Peter Kay on That Peter Kay Thing and Phoenix Nights; Overnight Success and Best Medicine Tour DVDs; Dead Man Weds; Bullseye; 8 Out of 10 Cats Updated 13 November 2026 · the record checked 12 November 2026