The laconic, dead pan comedy brilliance of US comedian Reginal D Hunter is about to descend on the UK in a big way this year with with 45 tour dates planned for his The Man Who Attempted To Do As Much As Such show. The majority of us will know him most from his appearances on Have I Got News For You and QI, but the impending tour will be your best opportunity to see him leading the show as he tackles everything from science to philosophy in an attempt to do some stuff that feels like it might have a positive impact on the world.
Details on what the show will actually be about are a little thin on the ground, but Reg has laid out just enough clues to give us a fighting chance of guessing the point behind the cryptic title for the UK tour. Building off the go-getting, ambitious title you can also see the comedian in the promo shot above (full image below) in front of the Houses Of Parliament running away from a seemingly terrifying 4×4 car with the license plate KGB IA5 and a stormy sky in the background, so we can assume that political turmoil and shady intelligence will be high up on the agenda for unrelenting comic crossfire in the live shows.
He’s also holding a couple of dossiers with the first referring to his newfound interest into the madcap world of modern science, something that’s confirmed by his Twitter account profile, which describes him as a comedian swashbuckler scientist (it also refers to his libertine approach to life, for which we can only say, good work sir). The second set of papers refer to trouble in the Middle East, which adds to the political satire count, but also indicates that religion might be on the hit too.
For anyone not that familiar with RDH’s particular style of comedy you should expect to get pushed up to the line before being nudged over with deep-toned controversy. If you don’t leave the show with at least a little flicker of moral doubt then you’ve either not been paying attention, fallen asleep, slipped into a strawberry ice-cream and Murry Mints induced sugar coma or you’re so hepped up on poppers and Lucazade you’ve been too busy thinking about the Spongebob Squarepants Movie to pay attention.
The Man Who Attempted To Do As Much As Such UK tour dates are scheduled to begin on the 29th April 2015 at The Anvil in Basingstoke, following on from pretty successful live stand-up shows in Australia, New Zealand and Scandinavia. Full details on all of the dates and venues are below as Reginald D Hunter saunters around the country calling at such gritty and edgy locations as Cambridge, Salisbury, St Albans and Oxford.
Ticket prices vary between venues, but range between £25 and £30.
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Reginald D Hunter, The Man Who Attempted To Do As Much As Such UK tour dates:
29/04/2015 – Basingstoke – The Anvil
30/04/2015 – Tunbridge Wells – Assembly Hall Theatre
01/05/2015 – Ipswich – Regent Theatre
02/05/2015 – Cambridge – Corn Exchange
03/05/2015 – Milton Keynes – Milton Keynes Theatre
06/05/2015 – Salford Quays – The Lowry
07/05/2015 – Wrexham – William Aston Hall
08/05/2015 – Halifax – Victoria Theatre
09/05/2015 – York – York Barbican
10/05/2015 – Liverpool – Philharmonic
13/05/2015 – Southend – Cliffs Pavillion
14/05/2015 – Swindon – Wyvern Theatre
16/05/2015 – Yeovil – Octagon Theatre
17/05/2015 – Richmond – Richmond Theatre
20/05/2015 – Reading – The Hexagon
21/05/2015 – Northampton – Royal and Derngate (Derngate)
23/05/2015 – Dorking – Dorking Halls
26/05/2015 – High Wycombe – Wycombe Swan
27/05/2015 – Guildford – G Live
28/05/2015 – Guildford – G Live
29/05/2015 – Salisbury – City Hall
30/05/2015 – Port Talbot – Princess Royal Theatre
31/05/2015 – Cardiff – St Davids Hall
03/06/2015 – Woking – New Victoria Theatre
04/06/2015 – Bristol – Colston Hall
05/06/2015 – Aylesbury – Aylesbury Waterside Theatre
06/06/2015 – St Albans – The Alban Arena
07/06/2015 – Chatham – Central Theatre
10/06/2015 – Peterborough – The Cresset
11/06/2015 – Croydon – Fairfield Halls
12/06/2015 – Glasgow – Clyde Auditorium (Armadillo)
13/06/2015 – Aberdeen – Music Hall
14/06/2015 – Inverness – Eden Court
17/06/2015 – Leicester – De Montfort Hall
18/06/2015 – Lincoln – The Engine Shed
19/06/2015 – Nottingham – Royal Concert Hall
20/06/2015 – Hull – City Hall
21/06/2015 – Oxford – New Theatre
24/06/2015 – Cheltenham – Town Hall
25/06/2015 – Coventry – Warwick Arts Centre
26/06/2015 – London – Eventim Apollo
27/06/2015 – London – Eventim Apollo
28/06/2015 – Brighton – Brighton Dome
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