Ardal O’Hanlon: The Showing Off Must Go On

Ardal O’Hanlon, whose CV includes such notable hits as Father Ted and Death in Paradise as well as more recent stints on Taskmaster and Would I Lie to You, has been touring this widely acclaimed (and very silly) show around the world. It’s all about making sense of the world when his background dictates that there is nothing worse than showing off – and yet he shows off as a way of life.

In an age of raging populism, angry identity politics, the end of truth, the collapsing middle ground, and peak avocado, Ardal, an otherwise gentle voice of reason, is forced to re-join the fray. Terrified of being on the wrong side of history and keen to prove his age, race, gender, and class don’t necessarily define him as a person, he turns to comedy, the best, most therapeutic emergency response to extreme events …