2020 British Podcast Award winning comedian Rob Auton announces the rescheduling of his biggest tour to date with his critically acclaimed Edinburgh comedy/theatre/spoken word show about time, The Time Show, for Autumn 2021, kicking off with a two-week run at Soho Theatre, Downstairs from 16th to 28th August at 7.00pm.
Alongside touring Rob is releasing I Strongly Believe in Incredible Things through HarperCollins’ Mudlark on the 16th September 2021. Written and illustrated by Rob, the book comprises of poetic prose, short stories and biro drawings detailing and celebrating a selection of some of our world’s everyday wonders, taking readers on a journey back to the incredible planet we live on.
Amassing a cult Fringe following for his shows exploring the colour yellow, the sky, faces, water, sleep, hair and talking, (which was the second best reviewed 2018 Edinburgh Fringe show), “the Fringe’s comedian laureate” (British Comedy Guide) first brought The Time Show to theatres nationwide last year, on his biggest tour yet to date, with the show also being due to perform at the Melbourne Comedy Festival in Australia that year. A clip of Rob performing on Stand-Up Central With Rob Delaney (Comedy Central) went viral with over 7 million views on Facebook, adding to broadcast credits including Miracle Workers (TBS), The End of the F***ing World (Netflix), The Russell Howard Hour (Sky One), Cold Feet (ITV), Random Acts (Channel 4), Stewart Lee: Unreliable Narrator (BBC Radio 4), Front Row (BBC Radio 4), The Sara Cox Show (BBC Radio 2), The Jonathan Ross Show (BBC Radio 2) and Afternoon Edition (BBC Radio 5 Live).
Last year also saw Rob’s one-year special daily podcast, The Rob Auton Daily Podcast, announced as the British Podcast Awards 2020 Winner for Best Daily Podcast (sharing the category with The Guardian's Today In Focus, BBC Radio 4's Beyond Today and ITV's Love Island: The Morning After.) With 1.4 million listens and counting, the bursts of funny and often poignant spoken word and music provide commentary on everyday life and injections of respite, and are being released as ‘Best Of’ monthly episodes throughout 2021. In 2013, Rob won the Dave Funniest Joke of The Fringe award.
Rob has published three collections of writing and drawing, Take Hair, Petrol Honey and In Heaven The Onions Make You Laugh, with Burning Eye Books and released a spoken word album At Home With Rob on Scroobius Pip’s record label Speech Development Records.
Rob’s ‘I Strongly Believe in Incredible Things’ is available for pre-sale now here.
The full list of dates and tickets are available at www.robauton.co.uk
