MATT FORDE ADDS NEIL KINNOCK AND ANGELA RAYNER TO WEST END POLITICAL PARTY LINE-UP

“our foremost satirical stand-up…Whatever your politics, you’ll find excellence here”

★★★★ Stephen Armstrong, The Sunday Times

“Possibly the best political comedy show on the Fringe” 

★★★★★ Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph

“Forde is as gratifyingly sane as comedians come… smart, funny ideas”

★★★★ Dominic Maxwell, The Times

 

It was announced today, 13th December, that Matt Forde has added two huge Labour names to his Political Party fortnightly residency at The Duchess Theatre. Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock joins Matt on the 10th January and deputy leader of the Labour Party Angela Rayner on the 24th January. Both promise to be electric nights of candid political analysis.

Guests on upcoming shows include the Leader of the House of Commons dubbed ‘the honourable member for the 18th century’ Jacob Rees-Mogg plus the Shadow Secretary of State for Mental Health, and potential future Labour leader, Rosena Allin-Khan who will both appear on the Political Party Christmas Special on the 20th December. Cross-party rock band MP4 complete the festive line-up, providing their usual brand of Christmas hits and political banter.

After 70 sold out Political Party shows at Westminster’s The Other Palace, Matt Forde moved to the West End’s Duchess Theatre for a fortnightly residency in September 2021. Since 2013, Forde has interviewed political figures including Keir Starmer, Nicola Sturgeon, Sadiq Khan, Julia Gillard, Tony Blair, Nigel Farage, Tessa Jowell, Alan Johnson, Michael Heseltine, William Hague and George Osborne.

The UK’s leading political podcast has over 6.6 million downloads and is regularly included in iTunes’ Top 10 comedy podcasts. The British Podcast Award nominated show was recently listed by Mace Magazine as the Number 1 Political Podcast and by The i newspaper as one of the 50 Greatest Podcasts, adding to top podcast picks in the press from titles including The Observer, The Telegraph, The Guardian, Radio Times and ShortList.

Political Party tickets are available to buy now at mattforde.com

Following record BritBox subscribers, four-year record viewing figures on ITV, and 200 million global views online, Matt has returned to voice puppets and write for the second series of Spitting Image streaming now. The Christmas Special has its second outing on ITV, airing on Friday 24th December at 10.00pm

Matt is currently co-hosting British Scandal with Alice Levine, a new audio series exploring the gripping stories, fascinating characters and critical questions arising on a journey through some of the biggest UK scandals and available on all major UK podcast platforms. The debut episode shot straight to the No 1 slot in the Apple podcast chart.

Matt’s first book Politically Homeless was listed by The Sunday Times as one the Best Political Books of 2020. The paperback was released in paperback by Quercus in May.

Matt has hosted four series of Unspun with Matt Forde on Dave, receiving several nominations at the Broadcast Digital Awards, and has numerous other broadcast credits including: Have I Got News For You (BBC One), The Royal Variety Performance (ITV), The Last Leg (Channel 4), Mock The Week (BBC Two), 8 out of 10 Cats (Channel 4), Hypothetical (Dave) Rory Bremner’s Coalition Report and Rory Bremner’s Election Report (BBC Two), Question Time (BBC One), This Week (BBC One), Newsnight (BBC Two) and Daily Politics (BBC Two). Matt currently presents Absolute Radio’s weekly Rock n Roll Football Show.

For more information and press tickets, please contact: Victoria Wedderburn at VWedderburn@avalonuk.com / 07557160139

 

What the Press Have Said About Matt Forde

“Is there a better political comic than Matt Forde currently working in the UK? I can’t think of another to touch him”

★★★★½ Jay Richardson, Chortle

“Matt Forde never fails with his state-of-the-nation address, a mix of bang-on-the-money political takedowns and spot-on impressions”

★★★★ Mark Wareham, Mail On Sunday

“Matt Forde is the consummate political comedian”

★★★★ Tim Cornwell, The Scotsman