This is the fourth series, so you've already covered a fair few topics. Simon Evans is an actor who wrote the latest BBC lockdown series called Staged, which features David Tennant and Michael Sheen. Libertarian? The pair were … BBC Radio 4 stand-up / factual show about economics. As always, my children are largely to blame, it turns out. Non-partisan? This is a tour of the show I played in Edinburgh last year, about my own thwarted ambitions to be seen as a man of genius, which I blame not on my own intellectual shortcomings but on society's failure to even appreciate and reward high intelligence nowadays. His first live DVD, 2014's Simon Evans: Live At The Theatre Royal, is out now. To actively punish it in fact. But creating a show about economics specifically was not so much a long term passion for me as creating one which enables you to laugh while thinking and probing and encouraging original insights. So it's swinging back and forth between Steptoe And Son's tragedy of self-delusion, and properly embittered rants about the collapse of standards of rigorous thought in public debate. 20 episodes (5 series), 2014 - 2019. It's a show that attempts to fuse comedy and economics, and consequently leave everyone in the dark, as fusing things does. Fear not! What's been the most interesting thing you've discovered whilst making the show to date? Here, you can buy tickets for Simon Evans' smash new tour and read more about the man himself. As I say, I don't know about right-wing, exactly, but seeing comics who are at least sceptical of some of the progressive, left-wing orthodoxy surely has to be good. Last year you wrote an article, during a heated debate about Brexit and comedy, about how you felt it was best to avoid discussing the topic on stage, in the risk that audiences would be alienated is that still your view? Touring is hard because of loneliness. On a recent episode of The News Quiz Peter Oborne commented about how left-wing the show is, and Miles Jupp implied you'd normally be the one on the show to represent the Right. Simon Evans 2020 Tour Welcome to the website of comedian Simon Evans. For Autumn 2020 dates click 'Buy Tickets' below. This is obviously tongue in cheek but there is grain of truth to it I think. Not one. Series 1, Episode 3 is repeated on Radio 4 Extra on Friday at 11:30pm. Tell us a little about your upcoming tour, Simon Evans: Genius? Writer and director Simon Evans has moved back in with his parents at the age of 36, where he’s spent his hours on Zoom with Michael Sheen and David Tennant.
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