Comic legend Frank Skinner is adding 14 more performances of his latest critically acclaimed stand-up show ‘30 Years of Dirt’, moving down Shaftesbury Avenue from London’s Lyric where he recently sold out seven shows, to The Gielgud Theatre. This follows a sold out run at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which included four extra dates added during the run due to overwhelming demand.
Frank Skinner’s live career began in 1987 when he spent £400 of his last £435 booking a room at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Four years later in 1991 he returned to the city and beat fellow nominees Jack Dee and Eddie Izzard to take home comedy’s most prestigious prize, The Perrier Award. He was appointed an MBE by the Princess Royal, Anne, for his services to entertainment in April 2023.
During a non-stop 10-hour radio show, which marked the 10-year anniversary of his career at Absolute Radio, Frank announced his last stand-up show, Showbiz, which was a sold-out national tour and subsequent sold-out residency at the West End’s Garrick Theatre. Frank’s award- winning show, The Frank Skinner Show, attracts over one million listeners per week, has achieved over 100 million podcast downloads since launch, making it one of the most successful radio podcasts in the UK, and saw him inducted into the Radio Academy’s Hall of Fame in 2016.
Away from the stage, the last few years have seen Frank host the Big Hay Weekend on Sky Arts in 2022, and present three mini-series for the channel with author Denise Mina, Boswell and Johnson’s Scottish Road Tripi n 2020,Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Romantic Road Trip in 2021 and most recently Skinner and Mina’s Literary Road Trip: Pope and Swift.
In April 2020, Frank Skinner’s Poetry Podcast was launched to critical acclaim with a sixth series released earlier this year. Off the back of this, the highly acclaimed book How to Enjoy Poetry was published in September 2020. His latest non-fiction, A Comedian’s Prayer Book, was published in April of 2021 and released in paperback in April 2023. In July 2022, the South Bank Show aired an episode in honour of his career.
The Gielgud Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W1D 6AR from Monday 5th February – Saturday 17th February 2024.
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