Just manage to get some of the best tickets you could ask for at the Liverpool Empire for Rhod Gilbert in a few weeks. I'd been checking resale websites for months without so much as a single spare as well, can't believe my luck. A quick search provides some mixed reviews of him on here but his early stand up was really, really good. It's been 7 years since his last tour so I'm hoping he has some good, relevant content.
If you've never seen him, the shows are on Amazon Prime.