Live Comedy
David Baddiel: Trolls: Not The Dolls
Trolls - the terrible people who spend all day insulting and abusing strangers for no other reason than to fill the huge gaps in their souls. There is a common wisdom about how to deal with trolls: don't, for goodness sake, encourage these people by replying to them.
It's a good law. And it's one that David Baddiel has consistently broken. Because David has always seen trolls as hecklers, and if a comedian gets heckled, it is their duty not to ignore the heckler, but to wittily put them down. Over the years, David has spent a lot of time doing this, which has led him to think that there might be a show in it: a show that would say something about how we live now.
David has stories to tell, of the dark, terrible and hysterically absurd cyber-paths that interacting with trolls has led him down. Come with him on this comedy journey into our culture's most dank virtual underground. You will come back safe, more able to deflect your own trolls, and only a little bit soiled.
This show is the third in a series of shows from David Baddiel following the both critically acclaimed My Family: Not The Sitcom (2016) and Fame: Not The Musical (2013), which saw David return to live comedy after 15 years.
2020 Dates
24 JAN: SWANSEA Grand Theatre
25 Jan: CARDIFF St David's Hall
26 JAN: SALFORD The Lowry
31 JAN: DORKING Dorking Halls
02 FEB: BUXTON Opera House
05 FEB: CAMBRIDGE Corn Exchange
06 FEB: WORCESTER Huntingdon Hall
07 FEB: WORTHING Assembly Hall
08 FEB: FOLKESTONE Leas Cliff Hall
09 FEB: STRATFORD UPON AVON RSC
12 FEB: DONCASTER Cast
13 FEB: BLACKBURN Windsor Hall
14 FEB: HULL City Hall
15 FEB: HARROGATE Harrogate Theatre
16 FEB: NEWCASTLE Theatre Royal
20 FEB: SOUTHEND Cliffs Pavilion
21 FEB: BASINGSTOKE The Anvil
22 FEB: PORTSMOUTH Guildhall
23 FEB: WOKING New Victoria Theatre
27 FEB: CREWE Lyceum
28 FEB: SHEFFIELD City Hall
29 FEB: DUDLEY Town Hall
01 MAR: NOTTINGHAM Playhouse
05 MAR: ABERDEEN Music Hall
06 MAR: EDINBURGH Rose Theatre
07 MAR: MOTHERWELL Concert Hall
08 MAR: GLASGOW King's Theatre
12 MAR: HAYES Beck Theatre
13 MAR: AYLESBURY Waterside Theatre
14 MAR: LEAMINGTON SPA Royal Spa Centre
15 MAR: CHELTENHAM Everyman
19 MAR: BIRMINGHAM Symphony Hall
20 MAR: GUILDFORD G Live
21 MAR: READING Hexagon
22 MAR: BRIGHTON Theatre Royal
26 MAR: NORTHAMPTON Royal & Derngate
29 MAR: HIGH WYCOMBE Swan
03 APR: ALDERSHOT Princes Hall
04 APR: SWINDON Wyvern
05 APR: YORK Grand Opera House
09 APR: ST ALBANS Alban Arena
16 APR: ISLE OF WIGHT Shanklin Theatre
17 APR: TORQUAY Babbacombe Theatre
18 APR: EXETER Northcott Theatre
22 APR: DARTFORD Orchard Theatre
24 APR: LEICESTER De Montfort Hall
26 APR: STAFFORD Gatehouse
30 APR: PETERBOROUGH Cresset
01 MAY: JERSEY Opera House
02 MAY: WATFORD Colosseum
03 MAY: KINGSTON Rose Theatre
Thursday 16th to Sunday 19th July 2020: Bloomsbury Theatre