TV comedian and YouTube sensation, Alasdair Beckett-King – Leicester Square Theatre, Main House, 17th & 18th July
TICKETS: https://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com/alasdair-beckett-king-the-interdimensional-abk/
Praise for Alasdair in 2022
“Alasdair Becket King is clockwork comedy perfection”. Stewart Lee ★★★★★
“you’re never sure where the next laugh is coming from, but it’s always a delight when it arrives” Telegraph ★★★★
“Erudite, daft, punning, rammed with gags, rich in characters, autobiographical and visually lively.
You couldn’t possibly ask for more”. Chortle ★★★★★
“If that isn’t proof of a formidable comic talent combined with a warm, inviting personality I don’t know what is”
Beyond The Joke ★★★★
With several viral internet hits and appearances on Mock The Week under his (vegan leather) belt, Alasdair Beckett-King has returned to his first love – stand-up comedy and taken his hit stand-up show The Interdimensional ABK on the road. His hugely successful (almost every date a total sell-out) 27-date debut UK tour will wrap up at Leicester Square Theatre on 17th and 18th June.
After several sold out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe, Alasdair predicts that 2023 will be the year of hard-hitting, uncompromising whimsy. His YouTube spoofs now have millions of views, sure. But he learned to do stand-up first, so The Interdimensional ABK is a real show with jokes and everything.
Schopenhauer said ours was the worst of all possible worlds, cementing the German philosopher’s status as “a right laugh”. But He had a point. How are you supposed to perform whimsical comedy when the real world is so terrible?
Astute, intelligent, and jammed with niche nerdery, whilst easy on thinly shredded nerves, The Interdimensional ABK is giving it a good go… Because as it turns out – here we all are, rudderless-ly moping about in the bafflingly miserable B Timeline, totally clueless to there being a marginally superior version.
In the A Timeline Wetherspoons is called Definitelyspoons to start with. And, well, all and sundry is just generally better, happier, and more optimistic. But don’t despair – Alasdair Beckett-King is here, on a heroic mission, sent from the A Timeline to save us all from ourselves.
He has however, hit a snag. The madness of B Timeline – war, injustice, growing anti-Ginger sentiment – is overwhelmingly distracting. And that’s before you get him started on Agatha Christie Poirot plots. Also – it turns out the B Timeline has heaps of awful things that he kind of loves. Instead of Alasdair making the B Timeline better, is the B Timeline is making him worse?
Innovative observational comedy, idiosyncratic animated illustrations and what one critic called “majestic” ginger locks, team up to deliver charmingly subtle commentary on the unavoidably addressed political climate in which we Timeline B inhabitants find ourselves.
