Films To Be Buried With with Brett Goldstein: Live Podcast, Matt Forde and Arabella Weir are set to join Jenny Eclair and Simon Munnery as part of the Southbank Centre’s February comedy line-up.
For the first time, Emmy Award-winning comedian, actor and writer Brett Goldstein (Ted Lasso) is bringing a live version of his award-winning podcast Films To Be Buried With to the Queen Elizabeth Hall (12 Feb). The multi-arts centre also welcomes the return of satirical stand-up and impressionist Matt Forde with his new show Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right (19 Feb, Purcell Room) and Arabella Weir: Does My Mum Loom Big in This? (12 Feb, Purcell Room).
The newly announced comedy shows join Jenny Eclair: Sixty! (FFS!) (11 Feb, QEH) and Simon Munnery: Alan Parker Urban Warrior Farewell Tour (16 Feb, Purcell Room).
Pax Lowey, Comedy Programmer, the Southbank Centre, said: “After an explosive comedy season in 2021 headlined by Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster live at the Royal Festival Hall, we're thrilled to announce that Films To Be Buried With with Brett Goldstein is set to make its Queen Elizabeth Hall debut, with a fantastic guest yet to be announced. Along with some of the UK's favourite stand ups, we're looking forward to shaking off the gloom and welcoming 2022 with laughter!”
Tickets go on sale to Members on Tuesday 14 December and on general sale Wednesday 15 December. Tickets for Jenny Eclair and Simon Munnery are already on sale and further information on all of the events is below.
Buy tickets for all South Bank Centre shows here.
Southbank Centre Comedy Listings: February 2022
Jenny Eclair: Sixty! (FFS!)
Friday 11 February 2022, 7.30pm
Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall
Tickets £22. For ages 14+
Having hit 60 (but still a year younger than Madonna), comedian Jenny Eclair aka ‘The Face of Vagisan’ confronts a new decade of decrepitude. Now that it takes 20 minutes of scrolling down to find her date of birth when she’s filling in forms online, should she celebrate or crawl into a hole? What will her 60s hold for this 1960s babe, and is it a legal requirement to buy Nordic walking poles?
Films To Be Buried With with Brett Goldstein: Live
Saturday 12 February 2022, 7.30pm
Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall
Tickets £20. For ages 16+. The event is captioned
The Ted Lasso star challenges a special guest to choose their ultimate film list in a live edition of the podcast. Join Emmy Award-winning comedian, actor, writer and swimmer Brett Goldstein and an extra special guest as they go all the way into life and death by way of movies, to pick their Films To Be Buried With. Previous guests include Sharon Stone, Jameela Jamil, Ricky Gervais, Barry Jenkins, James Acaster, Lolly Adefope and Aisling Bea. Brett Goldstein is the star, writer and co-producer on the hit series Ted Lasso. He also co-created and co-wrote the six-part anthology series Soulmates, co-wrote and starred in feature film SuperBob, and has performed multiple stand-up shows.
Arabella Weir: Does My Mum Loom Big in This?
Saturday 12 February 2022, 7.45pm
Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room
Tickets £18. For ages 16+. The event is captioned
For everyone who’s been or had a mother – join the author and comedian Arabella Weir on a helter-skelter tour of appalling – and appallingly funny – maternal behaviour. This is the mother of all confessional shows, featuring hair-raising hilarious true stories from Weir’s dysfunctional childhood, her perilous career and her life as a single working mother. Devastatingly funny, excruciatingly honest and definitely embarrassing for all of her relatives, not to mention herself, this is a hilarious journey through motherhood with the star of The Fast Show and Two Doors Down. Written by Arabella Weir and Jon Canter.
Simon Munnery: Alan Parker Urban Warrior Farewell Tour
Wednesday 16 February 2022, 7.30pm
Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room
Tickets £16. For ages 16+
The comedian reprises his notorious alter ego, bedsit anarchist Alan Parker Urban Warrior. Once the most radical, now the only radical, Alan returns with the old gold, the old truths, and some new truths (based on the old truths). For over 35 years, Munnery has performed around the world, experimenting with and innovating the stand-up form. In the 1990s, his Alan Parker Urban Warrior character took the comedy circuit by storm, garnering Munnery his own BBC Radio 1 series, which Time Out called ‘the funniest thing on Radio 1’, and a residency on ITV’s Saturday Live. In 1996, Munnery collaborated with Graham Linehan and Stewart Lee for the BBC2 show London Shouting, in his Alan Parker guise, and the character also became a regular contributor to NME. Munnery is a British Comedy Award nominee, Perrier Award nominee, Sony Radio Award winner and Chortle Award winner.
Matt Forde: Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right
Saturday 19 February 2022, 7.45pm
Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room
Tickets £17.50. For ages 14+
Matt Forde’s satirical stand-up lashes out right, left and centre – and chucks in some funny voices. To Forde, there are wallies everywhere and half of them are running the country. The other half are trying to. The comedian, who’s previously appeared on Spitting Image, Have I Got News For You and The Last Leg, presents a show to dissect the omnishambles.
Picture: Lisa Lyddon
