NEW LONDON CONTENT PROVIDER DATES

Because all the London Leicester Sq Content Provider dates sold out here is another three month block of the SAME SHOW at the SAME VENUE, Leicester Sq Theatre, with the SAME JOKES at the SAME TIME, 7pm, from November this year until Jan 2018. Leave voters planning to walk out in disgust will need to book early.

Weds 1st Nov – Sat 9th Dec 2017
Tuesday to Saturday except there is a performance on Monday 4th December

Tues 2nd Jan to Wed 31st Jan 2018
Monday to Saturday

Not Fri 24, Sat 25, Thur 30 Nov 2017 (DAYS OFF)
Not Tue 9, Sat 13 Jan 2018 (DAYS OFF)

CLICK HERE FOR THE LEICESTER SQUARE THEATRE BOX OFFICE

All dates listed in full at the gigs page.

Other extra dates by other comedians are available.

CONTENT PROVIDER TOUR

Autumn 2017 dates are currently being booked.

More dates will be added as they are confirmed.

All updates will be made at the gigs page.

April 2017

Saturday 29th – Content Provider – MACHYNLLETH COMEDY FESTIVAL – The Mach Arena – 7pm – SOLD OUT
Sunday 30th – Content Provider – MACHYNLLETH COMEDY FESTIVAL – The Mach Arena – 7pm – SOLD OUT

May 2017

Wednesday 3rd – Content Provider – SOUTHAMPTON – Mayflower Theatre – 7.30pm – 02380 711811 TICKETS
Thursday 4th – Content Provider – COVENTRY – Warwick Arts Centre – 8pm – 024 7652 4524 TICKETS
Friday 5th – Content Provider – KINGSTON – Rose Theatre – 8pm – 020 8174 0090 TICKETS
Saturday 6th – Content Provider – KINGSTON – Rose Theatre – 8pm – 020 8174 0090 TICKETS
Monday 8th – Content Provider – BROMLEY – Churchill Theatre – 8pm – 020 3285 6000 TICKETS
Thursday 11th – Content Provider – COVENTRY – Warwick Arts Centre – 8pm – 024 7652 4524 TICKETS
Friday 12th – Content Provider – DERBY – Derby Theatre – 8pm – 01332 593939 SOLD OUT
Saturday 13th – Content Provider – CAMBRIDGE – Corn Exchange – 8pm – 01223 357851 TICKETS
Sunday 14th – Content Provider – CANTERBURY – Marlowe Theatre – 7.30pm – 01227 787787 TICKETS
Wednesday 17th – Content Provider – YORK – Barbican – 7.30pm – 0844 854 2757 TICKETS
Thursday 18th – Content Provider – NEWCASTLE – City Hall – 7.30pm – 08448 11 21 21 TICKETS
Friday 19th – Content Provider – NEWCASTLE – City Hall – 7.30pm – 08448 11 21 21 TICKETS
Monday 22nd – Content Provider – SALFORD QUAYS – The Lowry – 8pm – 0843 208 6000 TICKETS
Tuesday 23rd – Content Provider – SALFORD QUAYS – The Lowry – 8pm – 0843 208 6000 TICKETS
Wednesday 24th – Content Provider – SALFORD QUAYS – The Lowry – 8pm – 0843 208 6000 TICKETS
Thursday 25th – Content Provider – SALFORD QUAYS – The Lowry – 8pm – 0843 208 6000 SOLD OUT
Saturday 27th – Content Provider – Wells – Cedars Hall (Comedy Festival) – 7.30pm – 0333 666 3366 SOLD OUT
Sunday 28th – Content Provider – Wells – Cedars Hall (Comedy Festival) – MATINEE 1.30pm – 0333 666 3366 TICKETS
Sunday 28th – Content Provider – Wells – Cedars Hall (Comedy Festival) – EVENING 7.30pm – 0333 666 3366 SOLD OUT

June 2017

Monday 5th – Content Provider – BURY ST EDMUNDS – The Apex – 8pm – 01284 758000 TICKETS
Tuesday 6th – Content Provider – COLCHESTER – Mercury Theatre – 01206 573948 TICKETS
Wednesday 7th – Content Provider – COLCHESTER – Mercury Theatre – 01206 573948 TICKETS
Thursday 8th – Content Provider – TUNBRIDGE WELLS – Assembly Hall Theatre – 8pm – 01892 530613 TICKETS
Friday 9th – Content Provider – BASINGSTOKE – The Anvil – 8pm – 01256 844244 TICKETS
Wednesday 14th – Content Provider – BUXTON – Opera House – 8pm – 01298 72190 TICKETS
Thursday 15th – Content Provider – BUXTON – Opera House – 8pm – 01298 72190 TICKETS
Friday 16th – Content Provider – DONCASTER – Cast – 8pm – 01302 303959 TICKETS
Saturday 17th – Content Provider – BRADFORD – Alhambra Theatre- 8pm – 01274 432000 TICKETS
Sunday 18th – Content Provider – LEEDS – West Yorkshire Playhouse – 7.30pm – 0113 213 7700 TICKETS
Monday 19th – Content Provider – LEEDS – West Yorkshire Playhouse – 7.30pm – 0113 213 7700 TICKETS
Tuesday 20th – Content Provider – LEEDS – West Yorkshire Playhouse – 7.30pm – 0113 213 7700 TICKETS
Wednesday 21st – Content Provider – WOLVERHAMPTON – Grand Theatre – 7.30pm – 01902 429212 TICKETS

September 2017

Monday 11th – Content Provider – OXFORD – Playhouse – 7.30pm – 01865 305305 TICKETS
Tuesday 12th – Content Provider – OXFORD – Playhouse – 7.30pm – 01865 305305 TICKETS
Wednesday 13th – Content Provider – PRESTON – Charter Theatre – 7.30pm – 01772 80 44 44 TICKETS
Thursday 14th – Content Provider – LIVERPOOL – Philharmonic Hall – 0151 709 3789 – 8pm – TICKETS
Friday 15th – Content Provider – LIVERPOOL – Philharmonic Hall – 0151 709 3789 – 8pm – TICKETS
Saturday 16th – Content Provider – DURHAM – Gala Theatre – 8pm – 03000 266600 – TICKETS
Wednesday 20th – Content Provider – SHEFFIELD – City Hall – 8pm – 01142 789 789 – TICKETS
Thursday 21st – Content Provider – SHEFFIELD – City Hall – 8pm – 01142 789 789 – TICKETS
Friday 22nd – Content Provider – STAFFORD – Gatehouse Theatre – 8pm – 01785 619080 – TICKETS
Saturday 23rd – Content Provider – PORTSMOUTH – King’s Theatre – 7.30pm – 023 9282 8282 – TICKETS
Wednesday 27th – Content Provider – DERRY / LONDONDERRY – Millennium Forum – 8pm – 028 7126 4455 TICKETS
Thursday 28th – Content Provider – BELFAST – Waterfront – 8pm – 028 9033 4455 TICKETS

October 2017

Tuesday 3rd – Content Provider – CHESTER – Storyhouse – 0845 647 7868 – 8pm – ON SALE SOON
Wednesday 4th – Content Provider – SCARBOROUGH – The Spa Theatre – 01723 821888 – 8pm – TICKETS
Thursday 5th – Content Provider – HARROGATE – Royal Hall – 01423 502116 – 8pm – TICKETS
Friday 6th – Content Provider – NOTTINGHAM – Royal Concert Hall – 0115 989 5555 – 8pm – TICKETS
Sunday 8th – Content Provider – BRISTOL – Colston Hall – 0844 887 1500 – 7.30pm – TICKETS
Monday 9th – Content Provider – BRISTOL – Colston Hall – 0844 887 1500 – 7.30pm – TICKETS
Thursday 12th – Content Provider – NORTHAMPTON – Royal & Derngate – 01604 624811 – 8pm – TICKETS
Friday 13th – Content Provider – CRAWLEY – The Hawth – 01293 553636 – 8pm – TICKETS
Saturday 14th – Content Provider – St. ALBANS – Alban Arena – 01727 844488 – 8pm – TICKETS
Tuesday 17th – Content Provider – LINCOLN – New Theatre Royal – 01522 519999 – 8pm – TICKETS
Wednesday 18th – Content Provider – CHELMSFORD – Civic Theatre – 01245 606505 – 7.45pm – ON SALE SOON
Thursday 19th – Content Provider – READING – Hexagon – 0118 960 6060 – 8pm – TICKETS
Friday 20th – Content Provider – BEXHILL ON SEA – De La Warr Pavilion – 01424 229111 – 8pm – TICKETS
Saturday 21st – Content Provider – WINCHESTER – Theatre Royal – 01962 840440 – 8pm – TICKETS

November 2017

Wednesday November 1st – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Thursday November 2nd – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Friday November 3rd – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Saturday November 4th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Tuesday November 7th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Wednesday November 8th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Thursday November 9th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Friday November 10th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Saturday November 11th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Tuesday November 14th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Wednesday November 15th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Thursday November 16th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Friday November 17th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Saturday November 18th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Tuesday November 21st – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Wednesday November 22nd – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Thursday November 23rd – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Tuesday November 28th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Wednesday November 29th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS

December 2017

Friday December 1st – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Saturday December 2nd – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Monday December 4th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Tuesday December 5th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Wednesday December 6th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Thursday December 7th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Friday December 8th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Saturday December 9th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS

January 2018

Tuesday January 2nd – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Wednesday January 3rd – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Thursday January 4th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Friday January 5th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Saturday January 6th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Monday January 8th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Wednesday January 10th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Monday January 15th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Tuesday January 16th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Wednesday January 17th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Thursday January 18th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Friday January 19th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Saturday January 20th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Monday January 22nd – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Tuesday January 23rd – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Wednesday January 24th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Thursday January 25th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Friday January 26th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Saturday January 27th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Monday January 29th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Tuesday January 30th – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS
Wednesday January 31st – Content Provider, Leicester Square Theatre, London – 7pm TICKETS

More dates TBC June, Sept, Oct, Nov.

Check the LIVE PAGE ON WEBSITE.

Tours by other comedians are available.

Global Globules with Baconface

On Wednesdays at 11pm on Resonance 104.4 fm and on the station website, the barely present cult Canadian stand-up comedian Baconface continues to play lengthy and mainly uninterrupted selections from his late brother’s extensive record collection of ’60s and ’70s psychedelia, progressive rock, free jazz, folk, acid folk, folk rock, acid rock, electronic music, and ethnoforgeries.

In association with the Chilliwack Office of Leisure. [Repeated Saturday 4am.] The shows can also be heard here.. http://www.baconfacecanada.com/listen

And also here, with pictures…
http://www.baconfacecanada.com/global-globules/
Resonance is a groundbreaking 24/7 radio station which broadcasts on 104.4 FM to central London, DAB to Greater London, nationally on Radioplayer and live streamed to the rest of the world.

Other fictional men with masks made of bacon playing vintage psychedelia are not available.

More DAILY TELEGRAPH BULLSHIT

As usual, The shit Daily Telegraph is full of utter shit and naked political bias where its comedy coverage is concerned.
In a desperate and contrived article from April 4th, by Rozina Sabur, the paper suggests that comedians’ careers are being harmed if they perform anti-Brexit material, and it achieves this mainly by cut and pasting comments made by Marcus Brigstocke somewhere else, and twisting them to appear to say something they probably didn’t. It may be the case that the premise of the article is true, but there is no hard evidence in Sabur’s piece to back this up.

According to Sabur, “a number of comedians have described scripting their take on Britain leaving the European Union for left-wing audiences in London, only to face unamused audiences when they take their acts out to the rest of the country”, but it is only able to find Marcus Brigstocke as an example of this ‘number’. The only other comedian Sabur mentions is me, in a vague non-committal sentence which says, “Comedian Stewart Lee has also spoken of some audience members’ reactions to his material poking fun at leave voters during his shows.“, but does not clarify what the reaction I am talking about is, or where I said this, which would make a massive difference.

I have spoken about this idea on stage as a joke, and in print about how it might affect circuit comedians whose audiences expect their Friday night fun demands to be met, as has Stephen Grant prophetically on Chortle. In reality the reaction to my Brexit material on the road has been only positive, though I suggest on stage that it may not be, for dramatic and comic effect. I am playing to the biggest and most enthusiastic audiences of my career at present all over the UK, hopefully comprised exclusively of Guardian reading liberal Remain voters, and the bit where I call Leave voters racists and cunts provokes a delighted reaction during and after the show, from grateful punters, many weeping hot tears of snowflake thanks, especially in heavily Leave voting areas, where they are clearly desperate for the comforting release of pent-up emotion that sometimes only laughter can provide.

A simple five second Google would have found Sabur more examples of touring stand-ups, (Nish Kumar, Josie Long, Bridget Christie, Al Murray), doing well, nationally, out of anti-Brexit-themed shows than it would of comics suffering from covering the subject, although again this does not necessarily prove anything, as the experiences of the unknown foot-soldiers of club comedy won’t show up in searches, so the impression would be skewed. But Sabur didn’t bother to check anyway.

Nonetheless, when I wrote unpaid for photocopied fanzines in the ’80s and ’90s they told us we needed three examples of something before we were allowed to identify a trend. The Daily Telegraph thinks barely two will do, presumably having downgraded the numbers required in order to justify their twat comedy critic Dominic Cavendish’s ongoing quest to prove there’s a new vanguard of popular right wing comedians on the Edinburgh Fringe, of which he also can only ever seem to find the same two every year. If only there were a third!

Here is a link to Sabur’s stupid article, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/04/comedians-tell-anti-brexit-jokes-damaging-careersas-audiences/, but it will drive revenue-generating traffic through the shit Daily Telegraph’s website, which is even more shit than the paper itself, so here is the piece itself. That said, you should click the link if you believe that content, however shit, should be paid for.

“Comedians tell how anti-Brexit jokes are damaging their careers as audiences outside of London walk out in offence.

Rozina Sabur.

Comedians have told how anti-Brexit jokes are killing their careers as audiences outside of London walk out in offence. A number of comedians have described scripting their take on Britain leaving the European Union for left-wing audiences in London, only to face unamused audiences when they take their acts out to the rest of the country.

Marcus Brigstocke has been touring the country with a set that includes 20 minutes of material on Brexit, it is his first tour that has seen members of the audience walking out “every night” in anger. He revealed that a number of his fans were unlikely to return to his shows in future, following the jokes. “People have been angry; people have walked out of shows and people have booed. A lot of the people that I think of as my audience will not be back – they won’t come again – they’re that angry,” he told BBC Radio 4.

Brigstocke said he did not want to turn his audience off, but said, “for the first time ever on tour I have people walking out every night – not hoards, but some. That’s unsettling. I have never before dealt with a subject as divisive and upsetting (including passionate criticisms of religion etc.). It’s a challenge I would usually enjoy but (perhaps because I’m not doing it well enough) it is proving to be a nightmare. It seems that for the most part Brexit is not just the hideous social and political turn we have taken as a country but is also comedic poison.”

Comedian Stewart Lee has also spoken of some audience members’ reactions to his material poking fun at leave voters during his shows.

Aaron Brown, editor of the British Comedy Guide, said: “I consume a lot of comedy – mostly TV, also some live – and would say the comedy world’s reaction has been almost exclusively negative. Many jokes essentially paraphrase as ‘shooting ourselves in the foot’, and the rest rely on lazily branding 52 per cent of the voters as racist.” “

Sabur writes, “Comedians have told how anti-Brexit jokes are killing their careers as audiences outside of London walk out in offence.”
But all Sabur actually has to go on is that Marcus Brigstocke has said some people walked out and may not come back. To extrapolate from this that his career is being ‘killed’, whether you like him or not, is nonsense. It maybe that the people that didn’t walk out will all come back and bring two Remain-voting friends next time. And to make the singular comedian Brigstocke into the plural ‘comedians’, without naming a single other example of the trend you are trying to imagine, is fundamentally dishonest and an example of bad journalism that should have been rejected by any decent editor, and sent back to substantiate its claims.

From a nakedly commercial point of view, it would make sense for a comedian to be pro-remain. It’s sad but true that the elderly Leave voting audience will die off sooner than they younger Remain voting audience, and the Remain voting audience have higher disposable incomes to spend on comedy.

In the 172 comments below Sabur’s thick piece, no-one mentions me, which is superb as it means I am off the radar of these moronic Daily Telegraph reading cunts, as I am with Daily Mail reading cunts too, although Telegraph reader Paul Mynn is annoyed with the imagined material of a fictional comedian; “Lee Herring is a twerp. Let’s build a wall round London to keep the toerags in. And they can pay for it!” Where I am concerned, the inaccurate paper has the readers and writers it deserves.

Nonetheless, the shit Daily Telegraph has still managed to put me in a bad mood on my birthday. And it makes me worry, if the right wing press can be this shoddy and biased covering comedy about Brexit how can we trust what they tell us about Brexit itself? And if you are a journalist reading this, no I am not prepared to comment on this in your crappy clickbait paper, or appear on bent Radio 4 news either.

POST-SCRIPT – I have just checked my email and found this Sabur tried to contact me yesterday, at 3.59 pm on April 4th, via my agent, for comment for this piece before it ran at 6.49 pm the same day, an doubtless labour-intensive intensive 2hrs and 50 minutes later. I am camping in a wood and don’t have a smartphone, so didn’t get the email, a narrow escape. Nonetheless, the piece is still rubbish. And so is Brexit.