Featuring killer one-liners delivered at break neck speed from a rake-thin ginger haired misfit in a myriad of voices, Andrew Lawrence, fresh from BBC1′s Live At The Apollo, and his own BBC Radio 4 series How Did We End Up Like This?, brings a whole new show to the Comedy Hall in Tiverton for the start of his ‘There’s No Escape’ tour.

The suited and booted Lawrence, who plays on his ‘creepy’ looks (he’s not really creepy looking, just charmingly self-deprecating with an instantly recognisable face) seems not even to pause for breath as he works himself into a rage about life’s injustices. Past targets have included poverty, famine and of course, rail replacement services…

Although not a surrealist, some of his funniest moments are the weirdest ones. And the ending of his last show was inventive and clever, offering the audience the choice of two endings and only a few seconds to make a choice. As ever, laughter betrayed their real one.

Lawrence started his comedy career at the Edinburgh Fringe, and was placed as runner-up in its ‘So you think you’re funny’ competition in 2003. Since then he’s won the BBC’s ‘New Act of the Year’ in 2004 and and been nominated twice for if.comedy awards in 2006 and 2007. The Independent has dubbed him ‘near perfection’ and the Telegraph is wondering why it’s taking him so long to become a national institution.

This ‘breathtakingly literate, dazzling performer’ (Mail on Sunday) has been described as as ‘spikily inventive’ (The Guardian) and ‘like the evil and more confident twin of Frank Spencer’ (The Independent). Sometimes dark, sometimes sending up life’s stupidities – misanthropy and nihilism have never sounded so good.

Tickets £15

Tickets available here or visit Jolly Vintner or Twyford Photography in Tiverton.

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