First UK Tour for Alasdair Becket King

With several viral internet hits and appearances on Mock The Week under his (vegan leather) belt, Alasdair Becket King is thrilled to return to his first love – stand-up comedy, as he takes his hit show The Interdimensional ABK on the road.

Alasdair Becket King:

“I’m an interdimensional comedian, and this show is about moving from the “A Timeline” (freedom, optimism, adventure) to the “B Timeline” (paper cuts, climate change, Noel Edmonds). If you’ve spent your whole life in the B Timeline (AKA, the real world), you’ll know how hard it can be. I come from the A Timeline, so I get to make jokes about all the best and worst things in ourworld, from an outsider’s perspective. So, there’s silliness, whimsy, and absolutely several proper jokes. We’re talking double figures, easy.”

After several sold out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe, Alasdair predicts that 2023 will be the year of hard-hitting, uncompromising whimsy. His YouTube spoofs now have millions of views, sure. But he learned to do stand-up first, so The Interdimensional ABK is a real show with jokes and everything. Schopenhauer said ours was the worst of all possible worlds, cementing the German philosopher’s status as “a right laugh”.  But He had a point. How are you supposed to perform whimsical comedy when the real world is so terrible?

Astute, intelligent, and jammed with niche nerdery, whilst easy on thinly shredded nerves, The Interdimensional ABK is giving it a good go… Because as it turns out – here we all are, rudderless-ly moping about in the bafflingly miserable B Timeline, totally clueless to there being a marginally superior version.

In the A Timeline Wetherspoons is called Definitelyspoons to start with. And, well, all and sundry is just generally better, happier, and more optimistic. But don’t despair – Alasdair Beckett-King is here, on a heroic mission, sent from the A Timeline to save us all from ourselves.

Alasdair Beckett-King

He has, however, hit a snag. The madness of B Timeline – war, injustice, growing anti-Ginger sentiment – is overwhelmingly distracting. And that’s before you get him started on Agatha Christie Poirot plots. Also – it turns out the B Timeline has heaps of awful things that he kind of loves. Instead of Alasdair making the B Timeline better, is the B Timeline is making him worse?

Innovative observational comedy, idiosyncratic animated illustrations and what one critic called “majestic” ginger locks, team up to deliver charmingly subtle commentary on the unavoidably addressed political climate in which we Timeline B inhabitants find ourselves.

Alasdair Beckett-King won the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year in 2017 and garnered a very enthusiastic critical response plus Amused Moose Comedy Award nomination with his debut Edinburgh show of the same year. Alongside his recent TV appearances and YouTube fame, he has featured on BBC radio as a comedian and sketch writer and performed stand-up across the UK, at Glastonbury, Citadel Fest, the Udderbelly Southbank and at the Fringe. He once won a student RTS award and was nominated for a Student Oscar, but quit filmmaking for stand-up on realising it was a cheaper medium to be unsuccessful in.

Tour Dates

APRIL

07/04/2023 & 22/04/2023 Brighton – Komedia Studio

08/04/2023                     Bath – Rondo Theatre

13/04/2023                     Oxford – The Glee Club

14/04/2023 & 15/04/2023          Birmingham – The Glee Club

20/04/2023                     Aldershot Hampshire – West End Centre

21/04/2023                     New Milton Hampshire – Forest Arts Centre

27/04/2023                     Norwich       Arts Centre

28/04/2023                     Bristol – The Comedy Box at The Hen & Chicken

29/04/2023                     Tiverton Devon      Tiverton Community Arts Theatre

MAY         

05/05/2023                     Maidstone – Hazlitt Theatre Studio

06/05/2023                     Cambridge – Junction (J2)

11/05/2023                     Fareham Hampshire – Ashcroft Arts Centre

12/05/2023                     Winchester – The ARC Winchester

13/05/2023                     Swindon – Arts Centre

16/05/2023                     Newcastle Tyne & Wear – The Stand

17/05/2023                     Edinburgh – The Stand

18/05/2023                     Glasgow        – The Stand

19/05/2023                     Belfast – The Limelight

20/05/2023                     Derry – Nerve Centre

27/05/2023 & 04/06/2023 Manchester – HOME Studio

28/05/2023                     Leeds – The Wardrobe

JUNE         

17/06/2023 & 18/06/2023 London Leicester Square Theatre