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Bafflingly Optimistic
14th - 27th Aug (not 21st), 7:00 pm
Pleasance Courtyard, Cabaret Bar
Having done 17 full-run Edinburgh shows, Andy hasn't done one for 17 years. He thought it was time he went back. But he's only doing the last two weeks as he's now got parental responsibilities. And he might get homesick.
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
'Surprisingly ripped' - Rob Beckett
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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.