Ardal
O’Hanlon, star of Death in Paradise, Father Ted and My Hero continues
to tour his acclaimed stand-up shows worldwide. Because he loves it. And
it’s a compulsion. And the world is a funny place.
In an age of
raging populism, MeToo, identity politics, the end of truth, the
collapsing middle ground, peak avocado and £15 Gin and Tonics, and
terrified of being on the wrong side of history, and desperate to prove
that his gender, race, age and class don’t necessarily define him, Ardal
is forced to saddle his high horse again and ride fearlessly into the
culture wars (with a white hankie in his pocket just in case), comedy as
ever being the best emergency response mechanism to extreme events
there is.