Frank Skinner - 30 Years of Dirt London Tickets
Comic legend Frank Skinner returns to London’s Gielgud Theatre following his sold out run earlier this year! His critically acclaimed show 30 Years of Dirt also enjoyed a sold out run at Edinburgh Fringe and Lyric Theatre, and has been hailed Skinner's best show yet. Book your tickets for this strictly limited run now!
About Frank Skinner
Frank Skinner’s live career began in 1987 when he spent £400 of his last £435 booking a room at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Four years later in 1991 he returned to the city and took home comedy’s most prestigious prize, The Perrier Award. Frank created The Frank Skinner Show (ITV), which is widely credited as setting the tone for the modern comedic chat show. With David Baddiel, he created and presented both Fantasy Football and Baddiel & Skinner Unplanned, and, alongside The Lightning Seeds, the pair also wrote the seminal football anthem Three Lions. More recently, Frank created and hosted three series of Frank Skinner’s Opinionated for BBC2, hosted seven series of BBC1’s Room 101 and seven series of Portrait/Landscape Artist of the Year for Sky Arts.
He has presented documentaries covering passions including Muhammad Ali (BBC1), Elvis (BBC4) and investigating the life of George Formby (BBC4). His Absolute Radio show has won three gold awards for Best Speech Programme (2011 and 2014) and Best Entertainment/Comedy Production (2017) at the ARIAs and saw him inducted into the Radio Academy Hall of Fame in December 2015.
For BBC Radio 4, Frank hosted comedy panel show The Rest is History, and wrote and starred in comedy drama series Don’t Start alongside Katherine Parkinson. Most recently he has successfully launched Frank Skinner’s Poetry Podcast with Absolute Radio, which has garnered fantastic reviews. As an author, Frank has published Dispatches from the Sofa; a collection of columns he wrote for The Times and has written two autobiographies, the first of which, Frank Skinner, was the top selling autobiography of 2002, spending 46 weeks in The Sunday Times Bestseller List. His latest stand-up show, Showbiz, has enjoyed a sold out national tour and subsequent sold out residency at the West End’s Garrick Theatre.
Why It’s Worth The Watch
- “Just plain funny in a way that few other comics can touch.” Dominic Maxwell, The Times.
- “He’s still got it… a comedy master… a masterclass in crowd work, with Skinner getting spontaneous laughs off every interaction.” Steve Bennett, Chortle.
- “You come away happy that after 30 years Frank’s still dishing his dirt, and happier still that he can dish plenty more besides.” Brian Logan, The Guardian.
- “Immaculately constructed…Skinner’s crowdwork is as sharp as ever…he can spool out a yarn every bit as entertainingly as prime-era Billy Connolly.” Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard.