
THE ZALTGEIST 2026
Following a sell-out 2024/2025 national run, Andy Zaltzman – host of The Bugle podcast and BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz, statistician on Test Match Special, and champion of Taskmaster series 18 – extends his hit tour into 2026.
Fully updated due to the UK and the world both steadfastly refusing to sort themselves out, Andy assesses the state of renowned planet Earth, its under-pressure current in-house millennium, and its most famous and controversial species – the human race.
With politicians the world over striving to outdo each other in splattering their people with a cocktail of incompetence, inexplicability and insatiable dishonesty, Andy, the universe’s leading and only 2-in-1 political-comedian-and-professional-cricket-statistician, harnesses the combined 21st-century witchcraft of A.I. and his live audience. Between them, they will concoct vaguely plausible answers to perennially troublesome questions such as What?, Who?, When?, Where?, and above all Why?
WARNING: May feature talking penguin.
★★★★
“Political satire at its most enjoyable”
Dominic Maxwell, The Times
★★★★
“Much more than clever, dextrous wordplay…
An evening of wit and wisdom, profanity and profundity”
Bruce Blacklaw, The Scotsman
“Probably the best satirical comic we’ve
produced in the last two decades.
Intelligent, biting and silly”
Ben Williams, Time Out London
January
31 Luton Hat Factory Arts Centre (Warm-Up)
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February
March
01 Leeds City Varieties
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05 Lincoln New Theatre Royal
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06 Chesterfield Winding Wheel Theatre
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07 Hull Truck Theatre
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08 Salford Lowry
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11 Brighton Corn Exchange
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13 Swansea Taliesin Arts Centre
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14 Coventry Warwick Arts Centre
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15 Reading Concert Hall
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17 Southend Palace Theatre
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20 Cambridge Junction J2
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22 Norwich Playhouse
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25 Liverpool Playhouse
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27 Tunbridge Wells Trinity Theatre
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April
May
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