Local Life - St Helens - Jan/Feb 2022

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Win Tickets to
Ed Byrne!
A household name teetering
on the brink of national
treasure status, awardwinning
comedian Ed Byrne
enjoys worldwide acclaim for
his stand-up. With 25 years
under his belt, Ed is a regular
on Mock The Week and The
Graham Norton Show, and
has recently co-presented
Dara & Ed’s Big Adventure
and its follow-up Dara & Ed’s
Road To Mandalay.
Ed’s new stand-up show,
‘If I’m Honest’ arrives at the
Theatre Royal in St Helens on
Tuesday 22nd January and
we’ve got a pair of tickets
to give away in our latest
competition.
Photo credit: Idil Sukan
A quarter of a century at the
comedic coalface has equipped Ed with a highly evolved
story-telling ability and a silky mastery of his craft. Yet his
wit, charm and self-deprecatory observational humour is
often underpinned by a consistently hilarious vitriol and
sense of injustice at a world that seems to be spinning
ever more rapidly out of control.
Ed’s new show digs ever deeper into a father’s sense of
responsibility, what it means to be a man, and whether he
possesses any qualities whatsoever worth passing on to
his two sons. Whilst Ed is occasionally accused of whimsy,
If I’m Honest is a show with a seriously steely core.
As ever, Ed manages to provoke without being overly
polemical, a balancing act that only someone of his huge
experience can really pull off. ‘I did stuff about Trump
and the Pizzagate right wing conspiracy,’ he says, ‘and a
couple of the reviewers said, “Oh, I would have liked to
have watched a whole show of this”. And I think, ‘well you
might have, but the average
person who comes to see me
would not like to see that’.
‘People who come to see
me are not political activists
necessarily, they’re regular
folk. If you can make a
point to them, in between
talking about your struggles
with aging, or discussing
your hernia operation or
whatever it is, you can toss
in something that does give
people pause as regards to
how men should share the
household chores.’
Age, it seems, has not
withered him. Especially now
that he’s figured out how
to head off ailments before
they become a problem.
‘You see comics who are my age and older but are still
retaining a level of “cool” and drawing a young crowd. I
can’t deny that I’m quite envious of that. But there’s also
something very satisfying about your audience growing
old with you.’
To enter the competition to win a pair of tickets to Ed
Byrne’s show at Theatre Royal in St Helens, simply visit
our website, www.locallife247.co.uk, click on ‘free stuff’
and then on ‘competitions’ and then answer the following
question;
What’s the name of Ed’s new stand up show?
The expiry date for the competition is midnight on Wednesday 19th
January 2022 and the winners will be notified within 48 hours. Entrants
must be over 16 years of age. Only one entry per household. Local
Life 247 cannot accept responsibility for entries that do not reach us.
Employees of Local Life 247 Ltd and their families are not eligible to
enter this competition.
Ed Byrne is touring nationwide. For more information, please visit http://edbyrne.com