BAFTA-winning comedian Iain Stirling (Taskmaster, Love Island, Comedy Central Live, CelebAbility, Comedy Bus) will embark on his biggest nationwide tour to date with brand-new show, Failing Upwards from 21st February to 22nd May 2020.
The news arrives as BARB reports nearly 6 million consolidated viewers watched the launch episode of the fifth series of Love Island earlier this month, with the first week averaging at 5.65 million viewers.
Over forty dates, including performances at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall and hometown Edinburgh King’s Theatre, Iain is set to explore topics including his inability to function in the most basic of public settings, social media’s constant pressure to “live your best life” and that one time a man stole his shoes. Ahead of the tour, Iain will test new material at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe from 5th-17th August at the Gilded Balloon.
Iain is widely acclaimed for writing and voicing witty one-liners on ITV2’s Love Island – the BAFTA-winning show is the most watched in the history of the channel and has pulled in the highest 16-to-34-year-old audience of any digital channel programme ever. Alongside Love Island, Iain is currently on our screens hosting a third series of physical comedy entertainment ITV2 show CelebAbility. 2019 has seen Iain appear in series 8 of BAFTA and Emmy-nominated Taskmaster (DAVE), host his own special on Comedy Central Live (Comedy Central) and appear on Comedy Bus (Comedy Central), The Russell Howard Hour and Comedians Watching Football with Friends (both Sky One).
Other television credits including The Jonathan Ross Show (ITV1), Saturday Kitchen (BBC One), Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central, The Chris Ramsey Show, Drunk History and The Comedy Store (Comedy Central), The Big Narstie Show (Channel 4), plus an array of panel shows, such as Celebrity Juice, Fake Reaction, Safe Word (ITV2) and Virtually Famous (E4).
Iain’s latest critically-acclaimed stand-up show U Ok Hun?x sold out the entire Edinburgh Festival Fringe in advance of it opening and the subsequent national tour was twice extended. He released his first book about millennials, Not F*cking Ready To Adult, through HarperCollins in May 2018.
