Comedian Geoff Norcott is preparing to get back on the road with an all-new show, and Reading’s Concert Hall will be filled the sound of laughter this autumn.
The comic has appeared in a host of hit TV shows including Have I Got News For You, The Last Leg, and Would I Lie To You?
He has also hosting podcasts and hosted his own BBC Radio 4 show, Geoff Norcott’s Working Men’s Club. Episodes can be listened to until the end of July 2025, at the BBC Sounds app https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0020y3d/episodes/player
Now, he’s preparing for a new tour, with Reading’s Town Hall one of the stops along the way.
The show is coming in October, and tickets have just gone on sale.
What happens in Geoff Norcott’s Basic Bloke 2?
Basic Bloke 2 – There’s No Bloke Without Fire is the latest tour from comedian, author, podcaster and radio host Geoff Norcott and Geoff’s first under a Labour government … he says he has plenty to get off his chest.
Not least, he says, because there’s nothing quite so British as being promised a brave new dawn then realising it’s as crap as the last one.
In the show, Geoff will savour getting his teeth into the new ‘big beasts’ of British politics, offering his insights and suggestions.
And culturally, Geoff is conscious that – as the global headwinds shift right – he might end up at odds with people who used to be on ‘his side’.
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He says he is dismayed to find that some of the cultural right weren’t really against censorship and cancellation, they just wanted to be the ones doing it. What’s more, Geoff can’t get his head around people who shared his suspicion of the EU’s power openly salivating over the idea of Britain becoming Trump’s 51st State.
Unlike most sequels, Geoff Norcott says his Basic Bloke 2 will move beyond some of the themes of the original, while being fully aware that a comedian doing a ‘sequel’ at all is a bit ridiculous.
He’s been moving in male mental health circles for a while now, but while they’’’re all saying blokes should ‘check in’ on each other, he’s wondering what happens if you do ‘check in’ all the time but they mainly want to send you politically incorrect memes.
Geoff says he will also taking advantage of the rediscovered tolerance towards jokes being jokes to tell you what he really thinks.
How much he judges people. Bad parents, people who eat too much, anyone who wears a dressing gown beyond 9AM…it’s fair to say the gloves are off.
What people say about Geoff Norcott
In a four-star review in The Times, Dominic Maxwell wrote: “He has become one of our most refreshingly funny comedians of any stripe”.
The Daily Mail’s reviewer wrote: “Geoff Norcott is in his element on the stand-up stage”.
And Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard from the London Evening Standard said his show saw “the laughs roll in like waves”.
Where else can you catch Geoff Norcott?
After numerous appearances on Times Radio, Geoff Norcott now hosts a Friday night show.
Meanwhile, Geoff continues to host the podcast What Most People Think.
Geoff is also a published author.
His first book, Where Did I Go Right?: How The Left Lost Me, was published in May 2021. His second book, The British Bloke Decoded, was published in September 2023.
He’s also had several successful national stand-up tours, with Taking Liberties touring in 2019 and 2020, and I Blame The Parents touring 2021/2022. Geoff’s most recent tour show, Basic Bloke, can be seen on Next Up and ITVx.
Geoff Norcott has numerous TV credits to his name, including Live at the Apollo, Mock The Week (BBC Two), House of Games, Question Time, Pointless Celebrities, Would I Lie To You? Celebrity Mastermind (BBC One), Backstage With Katherine Ryan (Amazon), The Complaints Department (Comedy Central), A League of Their Own, Comedians Giving Lectures, and Late Night Mash (Dave).
Geoff has presented his own documentaries on BBC Two, How The Middle Classes Ruined Britain and Is University Really Worth It?
Among Geoff’s radio credits are The News Quiz (BBC Radio 4), on which he has guest hosted as well as making regular panel appearances, Breaking the News (BBC Radio Scotland) and three of his own Radio 4 specials Withdrawal Disagreement and Right Leaning But Well Meaning (which won the 2019 BBC Radio & Music Award for Best Comedy Production).
Being a rare stand-up who leans to the right, Geoff has also found himself in demand as a social commentator on shows like Politics Live (BBC 1), Peston (ITV), Victoria Derbyshire (BBC 2), Jeremy Vine (Channel 5) and across numerous shows on Sky, including All Out Politics, The Pledge and Offended: Irvine Welsh.
Geoff’s satirical commentary has found its way into national publications with articles appearing in The Times, The Sunday Telegraph, The Independent and The New Statesman, and Geoff remains in high demand as a writer for TV too, with an impressive list of credits, including: BAFTA TV Awards, Channel 4’s Alternative Election, 8 Out of Ten Cats (Channel 4), The Outlaws (BBC One), The Ranganation (BBC 2), Judge Romesh (Dave), The Sarah Millican Television Programme (BBC Two), A League of Their Own (Sky 1), Christmas Live at The Apollo (BBC Two), 8 Out of Ten Cats Does Countdown (C4), and Backstage With Katherine Ryan (Amazon).
When can I see Geoff Norcott’s Basic Bloke 2 in Reading?
Geoff Norcott: Basic Bloke 2 – There’s No Bloke Without Fire will be performed at Reading Concert Hall on Saturday, October 25, from 8pm.
Tickets for the 90-minute show are now on sale and cost £23. The show is suitable only for audiences aged 16 upwards.
For more details, or to book, call the box office on: 0118 960 6060, or log on to: https://whatsonreading.com/geoff-norcott-basic-bloke-2
Geoff’s full tour can be seen at: https://www.livenation.co.uk/artist-geoff-norcott-1252793
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