A new 70-date national tour has been announced, starting later this year, for Geoff Norcott, star of Have I Got News for You, A League of Their Own, The Last Leg, Would I Lie to You?, Live at the Apollo, 8 out of Ten Cats, Backstage with Katherine Ryan and many more.
For his sixth UK tour, Norcott will be trying to make sense of the current cultural and political scene with his playfully provocative brand of humour. Whether it’s the dire blandness of the two main parties or the shamelessly shoehorned right-on messages in adverts and films, he will continue to delve into areas much of comedy leaves well alone. But this time around he also has a mission: as well as casting his everyman eye over what’s happening in wider society, Norcott is trying to unpick what’s happening with your average bloke.
It’s been a rough couple of years for blokes. Toxic masculinity has rightly grabbed all the headlines and the standard model has been tarred with the same brush, under the microscope like never before. At first glance, there’s not much to examine – there’s no Bloke 2.0 – and a reexamining of what it means to be a man and an ally is of course needed, but there’s a subtler dialogue to be had under the surface.
Taking his own “bloke’s-eye-view”, Geoff can see that, despite the social media vortex, your man in the street, average Joe, man on the Clapham Omnibus and your John Smiths just keep plodding on, fuelled by a diet of football, sheds, super-hero films, sporting autobiographies, wearing socks at all times and strategically burying feelings when necessary (for better or for worse).
However, under the paraphernalia of manhood and the sometimes basic, even primal, behaviour of dads and lads, Geoff can see that there is something mysterious and definitely non-toxic going on.
A kindly and funny stock-take of both himself his fellow man, Basic Bloke unlocks some of the more complicated behaviour of your husbands, dads and brothers.
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