Dom Joly prepares The Conspiracy Tour
- Dom Joly: The Conspiracy Tour will run in February and March 2024
- Joly will provide an "anarchic guide to the wacky world of conspiracies", and appear as conspiracy theorist character Dr Northcote
- "Is the earth flat? Does Finland exist? Are Q Anon mentally ill? Is Bill Gates using vaccines to take control of your mind?"
Dom Joly: The Conspiracy Tour is set to appear at theatres in February and March 2024.
The show's promoters say: "Dom Joly, the legendary comedian, travel writer and columnist, best known for his multi-award winning, global-smash-hit prankster television series, Trigger Happy TV, announces a return to the live arena in Spring 2024 with a new stage show Dom Joly: The Conspiracy Tour. The tour, based on Dom's latest book The Conspiracy Tourist, set for publication on 2 November 2023, will kick off in February 2024 and will run through Thursday 28 March.
"Conspiracy theories used to be fun but now they've gone mainstream and Dom Joly: The Conspiracy Tour will provide a hilarious, fascinating, and slightly anarchic guide to the wacky world of conspiracies. Having travelled the globe looking into some of the strangest and weirdest conspiracy theories in existence for his new book, Dom is now ready to reveal his findings. However, in the spirit of fairness, Dom will also be inviting a well-known and highly respected conspiracy theorist, Dr Julian Northcote, to take the stage and defend the alternate view.
"During the shows Joly and Dr Northcote be addressing some of the questions that have been troubling many of us for years - Is the earth flat? Does Finland exist? Are Q Anon mentally ill? Is Bill Gates using vaccines to take control of your mind? Is Denver Airport a massive panic room for the Illuminati? Are UFO's piloted by lizards?
"Whatever your views - cynic, conspiracy theorist, or a person just wanting Dom to shout HELLO into his big mobile phone. Dom Joly: The Conspiracy Tour is for you!"
A list of tour dates is below. Joly will also be playing the role of Dr Julian Northcote. A biography for Northcote has been released as part of the tour announcement:
Dr Julian Northcote
Born in 1960 in Wooten Basset, he was schooled at Charterhouse and attended the prestigious Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester before briefly working as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East. Due to certain events beyond his control and still sub-judice, he returned to Gloucestershire and worked for a long time as a journalist for the Gloucester Echo where he specialised in local politics. He is also an amateur historian who has written extensively on the history of the bench.
Northcote first came to public attention as the author of the book Cows, Britain's Secret Killers in which he exposed the hitherto unknown number of civilians killed by cows every year. "Informative and surprising" - Malmesbury Gazette.
In the book Northcote discovered that three hundred and twelve people had been killed by cows in Britain in the last fifteen years. Dogs had only killed twenty-two in the same time period. Why was there no outcry over this? Julian suspected Big Farmer.
Northcote became increasingly interested in what else the government was hiding from the population. He had a particular mistrust of the vegan lobby and felt that there were dark forces at play. In 2012 he staged a one-man protest outside Cirencester Waitrose for three weeks, claiming that avocados were the "devil's eggs."
He is also famous for breaking the story, now promoted by Bird Truthers everywhere, about pigeons having batteries and secretly recording everything on behalf of a shadowy global organisation.
For years he has been an outlier, ridiculed for his beliefs that Real Ale had an ingredient that made people liberal and that soap operas contained subliminal messages from lizards.
For a long time, Julian began to believe that social media was controlling his thoughts and that many of his followers were government plants, so he deleted his social media presence.
Now, however, with conspiracy theories becoming more and more popular, Northcote's pioneering work is gaining massive traction in the United States and he is being more and more hailed as the "godfather" of the "Alternative Facts" movement.
He is back online.
Julian lives in Gloucester with his wife Wendy and is currently writing a new book on how Ringo Starr might have been a Soviet spy.
2024 dates
Saturday 24 February: Maidenhead, Norden Farm
Sunday 25 February: Wimborne, Tivoli Theatre
Tuesday 27 February: Bristol, Redgrave Theatre
Wednesday 28 February: Brighton, Komedia
Thursday 29 February: Farnham Maltings
Friday 1 March: Portsmouth, New Theatre Royal
Saturday 2 March: London, Leicester Square Theatre
Monday 4 March: Cheltenham, The Everyman
Tuesday 5 March: Norwich Playhouse
Wednesday 6 March: Winchester, Theatre Royal
Thursday 7 March: Stevenage, Gordon Craig Theatre
Friday 8 March: Exeter, Northcott Theatre
Saturday 9 March: Taunton, Brewhouse
Sunday 10 March: Eastbourne, Devonshire Park
Tuesday 12 March: Chester, Storyhouse
Wednesday 13 March: Shrewsbury, Theatre Severn
Thursday 14 March: South Shields, Custom House
Friday 15 March: New Brighton, Blue Lounge
Saturday 16 March: Worcester, Swan Theatre
Sunday 17 March: Swindon Arts Centre
Monday 18 March: Oxford Playhouse
Tuesday 19 March: Westcliff, Palace Theatre
Wednesday 20 March: Hayes, The Beck Theatre
Thursday 21 March: Billingham, Forum Theatre
Friday 22 March: Halifax, Square Chapel Arts Centre
Saturday 23 March: London, Arts Depot
Monday 25 March: Leeds, City Varieties Music Hall
Tuesday 26 March: Lichfield, Garrick
Wednesday 27 March: Harrogate Theatre
Thursday 28 March: Basingstoke, Haymarket Theatre
Tickets via domjoly.tv