Six more dates this autumn

Ardal O’Hanlon has announced an extra half-dozen dates of his  stand-up show The Showing Off Must Go On.

The tour began in 2019, with the short extension coming on the back of his appearance on Taskmaster.  His other credits include Father Ted, Death in Paradise and Would I Lie to You?

The blurb for the show says: ‘Ardal is conflicted. Where he comes from there is nothing worse than showing off. It’s right up there with arson or murder. Yet he shows off as a way of life. Three questions. Why? Why? Why?

‘But just when he thought he’d made sense of the world, when he’d finally found wisdom and peace, the world went mad again, fell off its axis. And you can’t just stand idly by.

‘In an age of raging populism, angry identity politics, the end of truth, the collapsing middle ground, and peak avocado, Ardal, an otherwise gentle voice of reason is forced to rejoin the fray. Terrified of being on the wrong side of history and keen to prove his age, race, gender and class don’t necessarily define him as a person, he turns to comedy, comedy as ever being the best, most therapeutic emergency response to extreme events there is.’

Three of the new dates, all in November, are in Scotland, plus Guernsey, the Isle of Wight and Chester.

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Published: 29 Apr 2022