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Bafflingly Optimistic
After a completely sold out and critically acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Festival, Andy is back with his brand new tour, Bafflingly Optimistic.
'For those who worry that we are going to hell in a handcart, Parsons will at least make you enjoy the ride' - The i
As seen on Netflix, Amazon Prime, BBC iPlayer, Live at the Apollo, and Mock the Week.
'Hysterical' The Mirror
'Very funny' - The Times
'Punchline king' - The Guardian
'Laugh-out-loud funny' - The Sunday Telegraph
***** The List
***** The Scotsman
***** The Herald
'Surprisingly ripped' - Rob Beckett
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Somebody at Avanti West Coast needs to tell somebody else at Avanti West Coast that this train was CANCELLED. How likely am I after my most recent journey to recommend Avanti West Coast to friends, family and colleagues? Well, not to friends or family but there are a few colleagues I might recommend it to.
So Elon Musk is now frothing about British policing. Perhaps he'd prefer them to follow X's example and sack 80% of the workforce and then do very little policing at all.
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Winner Silver Dolphin Cannes Media Awards 2019 / Winner Best Film EVCOM Awards 2019 / Time Out Award Winner / New Zealand International Comedy Award Winner / Montreal Just For Laughs Comedy Festival Award Winner
Andy is a multi-award winning comedian who started his career writing for Weekending and Smith and Jones, and went on to become one of the main writers on the ground-breaking Spitting Image satirical puppet show. As well as being a regular on Mock The Week for ten years, Andy has performed on numerous radio and TV shows including Live at the Apollo, QI, Saturday Live, The Stand Up Show, The Comedy Store, The PMQ Show, Scrooby Trevithick, and Parsons and Naylor’s Pull-Out Sections.
To date he has done six sell-out national tours and released four DVDs – Britain’s Got Idiots, Gruntled, Slacktivist and Live And Unleashed – But Naturally Cautious, as well as releasing a podcast Slacktivist Action Group, recorded monthly at the Soho Theatre. He has also appeared on Question Time, The Daily Politics, This Week and Newsnight, and writes columns for The Independent.
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