A COMEDIAN known for his topical gags is bringing the laughs to Bridport this spring.

Andy Parsons will call in at the Electric Palace on Friday, April 22 as part of his Healing the Nation tour.

The tour has been postponed by the pandemic with Andy in the middle of a UK tour when theatres had to close due to lockdown.

He said: "It will turn out to be the longest tour ever, taking three years to complete, and as the tour has gone on there’s been less and less healing and more and more of the opposite.

"Admittedly, I could have changed the title but it still seems strangely appropriate – and some of the gigs have been rescheduled so it would prove confusing to existing ticketholders if the ticket said ‘Healing the Nation’ but the show was now called ‘My Life in Ballet’.

Andy is confident that playing to a whole host of theatres across the UK will undoubtedly mend the myriad divisions this country faces.

He said: "If current media tropes are to be believed, everybody exists in their own social media bubble and are up in arms about everything – be it Brexit/climate change/transgenders/ badgers. So come and celebrate what it means to be British in 2021 – freedom of speech, tolerance, tolerance of freedom of speech, freedom of intolerant speech, less freedom with more intolerant speech, but still some tolerance."

Andy has appeared on Mock the Week, Live at the Apollo, Q.I. etc. – and been repeated on Dave.

Since being a writer on the legendary Spitting Image, Andy won the Time Out Comedy Award in 2002 and has performed stand-up all over the world. To date he has done five sell-out national tours.

Go to electricpalace.org.uk for tickets.