robert newman
Philosophy seems to be a suitable subject for comedy at the moment. Ethical issues have been one of the strands of the brilliant Netflix series The Good Place and now here comes Robert Newman with his latest excellently titled show, Total Eclipse of Descartes.
Notebooks and pens out, Robert Newman has a new show. The one-time rock and roll stand-up has always been a bit of a clever clogs and in recent years he has taken his comedy in a distinctly professorial direction. His last show, in which he bashed Richard Dawkins and proposed his own theory of evolution made Robin Ince look like Roy Chubby Brown.
Comedian and film director Richard Ayoade will be one of the highlights of the forthcoming Art & Humanities Festival at King’s College London, which runs for 15 – 24 October. The theme of the festival this year is "Underground"
Following sell-out shows across the UK in 2013 and earlier this year, Robert Newman’s New Theory of Evolution is back for more dates this autumn. The latest leg starts on the September 13 in Halifax and ends on December 4 in Maidenhead.
Robert Newman is to return to BBC Radio with a new R4 series in 2015. In Robert Newman's Entirely Accurate Encyclopaedia of Evolution the acclaimed comedian will guide us through a unique A-Z of evolution that takes in everything from altruistic amoebae to the origin of flight. He'll also correct some major distortions of Darwinism in the light of what we now know about epigenetics, mirror neurons and The Flintstones.
The 2014 Balham Comedy Festival, running from July 11 - 19, has announced its line-up. Among the names confirmed are Susan Calman, Paul Daniels, Robert Newman, Phill Jupitus, Reginald D Hunter, Tim Vine, Stephen K Amos, Marcus Brigstocke, Milton Jones, Shappi Khorsandi, Mark Steel, Richard Herring, Jeremy Hardy, Susan Calman, Kevin Day, Gary Delaney, Kerry Godliman, Tony Law, and Fred MacAulay with more performers to be announced.
What's in a name? When Debbie Harry decided she wanted to be taken seriously as a musician she started calling herself Deborah Harry. When Rob Newman decided he wanted to be seen as a more mature comedian he started being billed as Robert Newman. But it is probably Newman's material more than his monicker that has cast him in a new light.
Suddenly after the summer slumber in London the next seven days feel like a properly exciting week for going out to comedy.
Normally at a comedy gig I feel self-conscious whipping out my notebook. But Robert Newman's modestly-titled New Theory of Evolution is not a normal comedy show. At times it feels so much like a lecture that taking notes feels perfectly natural.
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