THE last time Mock the Week star Andy Parsons was in town somebody was ill in the middle of the audience. On another tour he found some underpants in a jar of mayonnaise.
How the pants got there is just one story you can look forward to when he brings his latest stand-up tour, Gruntled, to the Corn Exchange on April 10.
The idea came out of prime minister David Cameron asking the National Audit Office to come up with a happiness index to work out how happy Britain is.
“Before it has a chance to report back, I’m jumping the gun and making a few sweeping generalisations as to how happy I think Britain might be,” he laughs.
“Given he’s making 500,000 people redundant it’s a bold move to go now to try and find out exactly how happy Britain is.”
Parsons, who has enjoyed huge success as a writer and performer on television, radio and stage, says the tour - his third around the UK - has been going well.
“It’s the show I’m most pleased with. There’ll be a little bit of autobiographical material in there, I take a good look at the coalition and foreign policy.”
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