DEBUT SPECIAL/ MOOD PIECE ‘ THE TIME SHOW’ PRODUCED BY TURTLE CANYON AND PLOSIVE RELEASED ON SUNDAY 15TH DECEMBER AT 11AM
“You’ll laugh a lot, you’ll smile a lot and, mark my words, you’ll want to see him again” ★★★★★
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke
“Like a sunbeam from heaven in human form, Auton is a constant delight.” ★★★★
Mark Wareham, The Mail On Sunday
“makes beautifully funny theatrical shows which are a genuine delight… You will walk out feeling transformed. And fully alive.” ★★★★
Claire Smith, The Scotsman
“beautifully crafted; just like Auton’s comedy… his act is well honed, and his ease is infectious… Watching, you’d struggle not be swept up in the charm of it all” ★★★★
Isobel Lewis, The Independent
“heartfelt but packs some very big laughs… This is a finely crafted show, with great callbacks, and his last routine – delivered with passion – acts as a reminder that we all here for the human experience.” ★★★★
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk
13th December – Following his second consecutive British Podcast Award win and a critically acclaimed, sold-out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe earlier this year, multi award-winning comedian, podcaster, and writer Rob Auton (Starstruck, The End of the F***ing World, Miracle Workers) is set to embark on his biggest tour yet with The Eyes Open and Shut Show in the New Year.
The news coincides with Rob announcing that his first stand-up comedy special The Time Show will be released this Sunday 15th December at 11am on Turtle Canyon Comedy’s YouTube, here. Recorded at the Tom Thumb Theatre in Margate – one of the smallest theatres in the world – the special is directed by Stuart Laws (James Acaster: Hecklers Welcome, Nish Kumar: Your Power, Your Control) and is produced by Turtle Canyon and Plosive.
With over 39 performances nationwide, The Eyes Open and Shut Show tour kicks off with a week-long run at London’s Soho Theatre Main House on 27th January and culminates at Leeds’ City Varieties Musical Hall on 3rd May. Through his trademark acclaimed unique humour and perspective, Rob will explore the nature of our approach to the world through our eyes – both open and shut – interweaving guided meditations with evocative imagery. Examining how language shapes our perception in these states, Rob seamlessly transforms the everyday into the extraordinary, leading audiences to “walk out feeling transformed. And fully alive” (The Scotsman).
Full dates and tickets available now at robauton.co.uk
The Time Show is a comedy/theatre/spoken word show that received critical acclaim at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe and went on to tour the UK to sell-out crowds. Rob has earned a cult following from his shows about Rob, crowds, time, talking, hair, sleep, water, faces, the sky and the colour yellow, leading to multiple successful national and international tours, with his most recent hours performed at the prestigious Melbourne International Comedy Festival in both 2023 and 2024.
On the 1st January 2024, three years since its last episode, Rob relaunched his daily and critically acclaimed podcast, The Rob Auton Daily Podcast, which “makes you see the world differently” (Miranda Sawyer, The Observer). With over 500 episodes and over 2 million downloads to date, the podcast was named the 2024 British Podcast Awards Gold Winner for ‘Best Daily Podcast’ (against competition including The Guardian’s Today in Focus, BBC’s Newscast, and The Times’ The Story). This marks Rob’s second consecutive win in the category, following his first award in 2020 with the original series.
Rob recently appeared on the latest series of Starstruck (BBC), adding to numerous on-screen credits including Miracle Workers (TBS), The End of the F***ing World (Netflix/Channel 4), The Russell Howard Hour (Sky), Cold Feet (ITV) and Random Acts (Channel 4). A clip of Rob performing on Stand-Up Central With Rob Delaney (Comedy Central) went viral with over 11 million views on Facebook alone, and has since found a new audience on TikTok with over 1.8 million views. Elsewhere on radio, Rob has appeared on Stewart Lee: Unreliable Narrator (BBC Radio 4), Front Row (BBC Radio 4), Craig Charles (BBC Radio 6 Music), Your Place or Mine with Shaun Keaveny (BBC Radio 4), The Exploding Library (BBC Radio 4), Nihal Arthanayake (BBC Radio 5 Live) and Sara Cox (BBC Radio 2). On podcasts, Rob has been a popular guest on Films to Buried With Brett Goldstein, The Moon Under Water with John Robins, Memory Lane with Kerry Godliman and Jen Brister and The Daily Grind with Shaun Keaveny.
In 2021, HarperCollins’ Mudlark released Rob’s latest book, I Strongly Believe in Incredible Things, comprising of poetic prose, short stories and biro drawings detailing and celebrating a selection of some of our world’s everyday wonders, which he both wrote and illustrated. Previously, Rob had published three collections of writing and drawing, Take Hair, Petrol Honey and In Heaven The Onions Make You Laugh, with Burning Eye Books and released a spoken word album At Home With Rob on Scroobius Pip’s record label Speech Development Records.
Further praise for Rob
“A genuine original…Poetical, philosophical, humane, completely charming and funny to boot”
Paul Fleckney, The Guardian
“Poetic, pithy and profound piece about what makes us human”
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard
“an unexpected delight…makes laughter out of wonder”
Claire Smith, The Scotsman
“Funny, moving and relentlessly uplifting”
Gayle Anderson, The Herald
“He romantically seeks wonder and amazement in the everyday…an engaging, thoughtful show”
Steve Bennett, Chortle
“a tender and twinkling hour”
Brian Logan, The Guardian
“Another funny, beautiful show from the Fringe’s comedian laureate”
British Comedy Guide
“We need him”
Kate Copstick, The Scotsman
“Funny, baffling and deeply moving”
Tristram Fane Saunders, Telegraph
“Charming, eccentric and uplifting, Auton is a talent to watch.”
Alice Jones, The Independent
“He is entirely compelling to watch…I’m not entirely sure what it is but it’s great and it wallops you in the belly”
Daniel Kitson
“Brilliant.”
Stewart Lee
“combining stand-up, spoken word and the sort of emotional insight you don’t think you’ll get from a comedy show…you can bet he’ll turn out something unexpected”
Zoe Paskett, Evening Standard
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