Please don’t come if you’re a skinhead (though naturally bald folk are welcome).
Following a sold-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and autumn UK tour, star of Live At The Apollo, Have I Got News for You and Q.I. Shappi Khorsandi has announced more tour dates for spring 2017, including a 10 night run at London’s Soho Theatre. Tickets for ‘Oh My Country!’ From Morris Dancing To Morrissey’ are on sale now (please find full listings information below).
She has whip-crack jokes and is effortlessly funny as she handles every subject with a razor sharp wit, softened only by her deliciously mischievous delivery and endless charm.
Shappi is the best-selling author of ‘A Beginners Guide to Acting English’, released in 2009, and her debut novel ‘Nina Is Not OK’ was published by Ebury in July 2016 to much critical acclaim and will be released In paperback on 9th February 2017.
Shappi has notched up numerous high profile television appearances including; Live At The Apollo (BBC ONE), Channel 4’s Comedy Gala At The O2 (Channel 4, 2010 - 2016), Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow (BBC ONE), The Graham Norton Show (BBC ONE), Have I Got News For You (BBC ONE) and her own Comedy Store Special for Comedy Central.
She also had the honour of being nominated at the prestigious British Comedy Awards in the Best Female Comic category up against fellow nominee’s Jo Brand and Sarah Millican. Shappi has also appeared as a panelist on ITV1’s Loose Women and BBC ONE’s Question Time.