Simon Brodkin Embarks On First Ever Tour As Himself
100% SIMON BRODKIN SEES HIM PERFORMING OUT OF CHARACTER FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME
After three hugely successful BBC series as the irrepressible Lee Nelson and gaining international notoriety as a serial prankster, Simon unveils his funniest creation yet… himself!
LONDON DATE: www.leicestersquaretheatre.com
After a critically-acclaimed, sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Simon Brodkin is embarking on a 47-date nationwide tour. Kicking off at the Leicester Square Theatre on Friday 15th November 2019, 100% Simon Brodkin will visit a further 46 venues across the UK between February and May 2020.
After three hugely successful BBC series as the irrepressible Lee Nelson and gaining international notoriety as a serial prankster, Simon unveils his funniest creation yet… himself! 100% Simon Brodkin sees him performing out of character for the very first time. In this honest, heartfelt show, Simon takes us from his childhood growing up on the “mean streets” of Hampstead Garden Suburb, via an adulthood as an out-of-his-depth doctor and inept parent, to someone who was ill-prepared for the torrent of antisemitic hatred he received from the Ku Klux Klan after pranking Donald Trump.
Surrounding President Donald Trump with a hundred swastika-emblazoned golf balls as he opened his Turnberry golf resort was just one of Simon’s many world-famous stunts. Others include handing Prime Minister Theresa May a P45 during her Conservative Party Conference speech, showering disgraced FIFA President Sepp Blatter with bank notes, re-christening Sir Philip Green’s hundred-million pound yacht “BHS Destroyer”, joining Kanye West on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury, and fooling Simon Cowell and the other judges to win four ‘yeses’ on Britain’s Got Talent, as an ultra-orthodox ‘Rapping Rabbi’! Some of these audacious stunts were documented in Channel 4’s Britain’s Greatest Hoaxer and have been watched on YouTube by over 15 million people.
As well as writing and starring in Lee Nelson’s Well Good Show and Lee Nelson’s Well Funny People (both BBC Three), Simon has performed and hosted as Lee on Live at the Apollo (BBC One), Sunday Night at the Palladium (ITV), The John Bishop Christmas Show (BBC One), Children In Need (BBC One) and Channel 4’s Comedy Gala.
LISTINGS
15 November 2019 Leicester Square Theatre
2 February 2020 Salford, The Lowry
3 February 2020 Cambridge Junction
5 February 2020 Leeds City Varieties
6 February 2020 Darlington, Hullabaloo
7 February 2020 Hexham, Queens Hall
8 February 2020 Huddersfield, Lawrence Batley
13 February 2020 Camberley Theatre
14 February 2020 Spalding, South Holland Centre
20 February 2020 Milton Keynes, Stables
22 February 2020 Maidstone, Hazlitt Arts Centre
25 February 2020 Wellingborough, Castle Theatre
26 February 2020 Redditch Palace Theatre
28 February 2020 Braintree Arts Theatre
06 March 2020 Fleet, The Harlington
08 March 2020 Leicester, Y Theatre
12 March 2020 Andover, The Lights
14 March 2020 Barnsley Civic
15 March 2020 Northallerton Forum
20 March 2020 Glasgow Stand
21 March 2020 Aberdeen, Lemon Tree Theatre
22 March 2020 Edinburgh Stand
27 March 2020 Corby, The Cube
28 March 2020 Chorley, Little Theatre
29 March 2020 Newcastle Stand
03 April 2020 Bedford, The Quarry
05 April 2020 Birmingham Old Rep
06 April 2020 Nottingham Glee
07 April 2020 York, The Crescent
09 April 2020 Barnard Castle, The Witham
10 April 2020 Workington, Carnegie Theatre
11 April 2020 Cumbria, Beggars Theatre
12 April 2020 Sheffield Leadmill
14 April 2020 Stafford MET
18 April 2020 Maidenhead, Norden Farm
19 April 2020 Radlett Centre
21 April 2020 Cardiff Glee
23 April 2020 Bristol, Tobacco Factory
24 April 2020 Somerset, McMillan Hall
25 April 2020 Northampton, Derngate
