Mark Steel

Following a sold out performance here last year, another chance to see the latest show from the star of BBC’s Have I Got News For You, QI and BBCR4’s News Quiz. Mark Steel is a comedian, newspaper columnist, author, and creator of the critically acclaimed Mark Steel’s in Town.

There is so much to yell about. There’s the modern world in which you spend so long trying to work out iTunes, that it’s easier to form a band and learn the songs. But there’s also so much to be delighted with. Like the fact that everyone in Northampton knows the sign that says ‘Family Planning Advice – Use Rear Entrance’.

Mark has come to terms with the fact that he’s a heap of contradictions, trying to stay young while being unable to log into any website. Mark is still trying to be respectable and mainstream, but might still break into a steaming rant that would get him locked away somewhere secure if it wasn’t on a stage.

And this is stand-up, so whatever has happened in the room, in the town or in the world that day will almost certainly be in the show. he’ll try to keep it to a decent length, but it could so easily end up as an evening and part of the next day.