mitch benn
It's been a morbid time for "the country's leading musical satirist" (The Times); he's turned 47 - over the hill by anyone's standards - his personal life is in turmoil, and his childhood heroes are dropping like flies. At times like these, a man feels the Reaper creeping up on him... But is death anything to fear? And is it really the end?
Jon Holmes has been dropped from BBC satire show The Now Show. Mitch Benn, who is best known for his musical numbers, is also leaving.
Holmes commented on the news on Twitter, writing: "Sad to announce I've been axed from as 'we want to recast with more women and diversity' Tsk. And I didn't even punch a producer."
Mitch Benn is a busy man. Very busy. When not on the radio doing his own shows or topical songs on The Now Show, the Liverpool-born comedian is often on tour. When he's not on the radio or on tour he is writing books. He has not one but two successful novels under his belt, Terra and Terra's World. And when he is not doing any of this things he is quite possibly watching Dr Who. In his latest show, Don't Believe A Word, he explores the nature of belief: "I'm a skeptic. But don't take my word for it. Or indeed anybody's.
Everyone must surely know Mitch Benn by now. It feels as if he has doing topical songs on The Now Show since we last had a genuinely left wing government. The Liverpool-born Beatles obsessive, sorry, enthusiast, is also a regular visitor to the Edinburgh Fringe and returns this year with That Was The Future, his look at “where we are going, where we thought we were going, and what happens when we get there”. So you can probably expect some politics, some music and possibly some talk about three-course Sunday lunches in pill form.
Comedian Mitch Benn is recording two special radio shows paying tribute to two musical icons, David Bowie and Bob Dylan.
At 7.15pm on Wednesday 13 May at RADA Studios in Central London he will be recording Mitch Benn is The Fat Pink Duke.
As fans of musical satire on Radio 4 may well have heard, Mitch Benn is only half the man he was. After being overweight for most of his life the Liverpool-born all-rounder decided he did not want to die without seeing his children grow up and lost eleven of his 25 stone a couple of years ago. Reduced Circumstances, which is an extended version of last summer's Edinburgh show, addresses the issue but not, ahem, too heavily.
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