FAILING UPWARDS TOUR INCLUDES 1000 FREE NHS TICKETS AND AMAZON PRIME VIDEO SPECIAL RECORDING
“As the voiceover of a generation he’s become a national sensation” Samuel Fishwick, Evening Standard
“a show with a dark edge but delivered with utmost skill and affability…a treat” ★★★★ Sharon Lougher, Metro
“unfailingly affable…a David Attenborough-type observer of the villa’s ecosystem” Jael Goldfine, GQ
Following appearing on our screens this summer with his debut sitcom, Buffering, Love Island and CelebAbility (ITV2), BAFTA-winning comedian Iain Stirling (Taskmaster) starts his rescheduled biggest tour to date on the 14th September. Two shows including a free performance for NHS workers will be recorded for Iain’s previously announced Amazon Prime Video Special at the Alexandra Palace Theatre on the 14th November 2021. The 71-date tour culminating on the 24th April 2022 at Dublin’s Vicar Street will see Iain explore topics including his inability to function in the most basic of public settings, social media’s constant pressure to “live your best life” and that one time a man stole his shoes. Tickets available at iaindoesjokes.com.
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Iain recently created, wrote and starred in Buffering (ITV2), a 6-part sitcom following Iain, a children’s TV presenter with an aversion to kids, and his friends who are all navigating that age where they’re too old for nightclubs but too poor for mortgages. Part of a generation who are told they must live the perfect life, these friends discover it’s not only ok but healthy to fail, over and over again.
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Iain is best known as the acclaimed voice of the hit BAFTA-winning reality show Love Island (ITV2) spanning seven series. Following the success of Love Island, he appeared in series eight of Taskmaster (Dave) and hosted four series of CelebAbility (ITV2). This adds to an extensive list of television credits including: The Russell Howard Hour and Comedians Watching Football with Friends (Sky One), The Jonathan Ross Show (ITV1), Celebrity Gogglebox (Ch4) and The Comedy Bus, Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central, The Chris Ramsey Show, Drunk History and The Comedy Store (Comedy Central). Iain co-wrote and hosted six series of the comedy panel show The Dog Ate My Homework (CBBC) which saw him win 2018’s RTS Scotland’s On-Screen Personality and 2017’s Children’s BAFTA Best Presenter Award (2017).
An Edinburgh Festival Fringe favourite, Iain has performed five sold-out and critically acclaimed shows, including U OK Hun? X (2017) which sold out the entire Edinburgh Fringe run in advance.
He released his first book about millennials, Not F*cking Ready To Adult, through HarperCollins in May 2018, along with a companion podcast of the same name.
Other Things The Press Has Said About Iain Stirling
“At his best the Edinburgh native is an unhinged free-form anecdotist” ★★★★
Mark Wareham, Mail On Sunday
“An extremely funny hour of observational and surreal comedy”
Rupert Hawksley, The Telegraph
“Love Island is really funny, thanks in no small part to Scottish comedian Iain Stirling’s voiceover”
Tim Jonze, The Guardian
“This summer Stirling is also establishing himself as the voice of the British millennial”
Hattie Crisell, The Times
What The Press Said About Buffering
“a level of expertise that clearly shows… tear-jerking and heart-warming.”
Alexi Duggins, The Times
“Buffering does have the pacey feel of an American sitcom with storylines and jokes jostling for your attention… the plot is more ambitious than you might expect for ITV2…Bugeja was big on structure, Stirling wanted to get as many jokes in as possible. Judging by the first episode they have reached a successful compromise”
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard
“a funny sitcom…a meditation on the myriad challenges of millennial life.…zippy, gag-dense”
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian
★★★★
Mark Wareham, The Mail on Sunday
“hilariously surreal experiences”
Caitlin Danaher, RTS
“hilarious… I watched it, I howled, I fell off the bed”
Claudia Winkleman, BBC Radio 2
“having seen the whole series in one go, I loved it”
Scott Bryan, BBC Radio 5 Live
“I absolutely loved it…within a few days I had binge-watched the whole series and found myself frantically googling to find out if there would be another…it even manages to balance funny moments with emotional ones, which isn’t easy.”
Ed Gleave, The Daily Star
“Prepare to LOL”
The Sun
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