After 50 million downloads the smash hit, consistently chart-topping Parenting Hell podcast will hit the road with live shows at both the Manchester Arena on Friday 14th April 2023 and London The O2 on Friday 21st April 2023. Rob and Josh’s podcast continues to be one one of the most popular in the UK, with millions downloading every week.
Twice weekly, since April 2020, comedy pals and Sunday Times best-selling authors, Josh Widdicombe and Rob Beckett have been bringing together fellow parents to share the highs and lows of being a parent in these times, providing a comedy lifeline for so many people all ages, including many that don’t even have kids. Each week they’re joined by a well known parent to share their often hilarious, sometimes horrifying, stories about how they cope.
Previous guests include Louis Theroux, Paloma Faith, Katherine Ryan, Peter Crouch, Fay Ripley, Michael McIntyre,Judi Love, Jonathan Ross, Daisy May Cooper, Jack Dee, Robbie Williams and Alison Hammond.
Rob said: "I am absolutely buzzing to go on tour with Josh. After two years of being locked up in my house with the kids all I can think of is that empty quiet hotel room after the show. As well as the shows themselves. The shows are going to be great but also waking up when I want and having breakfast in silence. But also the shows which are gonna be really great. We will be live and unedited. All the stuff we can’t say and do on the podcast will be happening on that stage and I cannot wait."
Josh said: "I have no idea how this has happened in my career, last time I checked me and Rob were cool young comics about town. Now we are two middle aged blokes complaining about our kids. Despite this I can promise this will be the best show that features two dads grumbling to ever play Britain's arenas."
JOSH WIDDICOMBE
Best known for 22 series of the multi-award-winning Channel 4 series The Last Leg, Josh has had an incredible rise in the decade he has been performing stand-up, with multiple appearances on QI, Live at the Apollo, A League Of Their Own, Mock The Week, Have I Got News For You, Would I Lie To You? and Taskmaster. He is a team captain on Insert Name Here and also co-hosts - with James Acaster - the hit Dave show Hypothetical.
Josh is also host of cult 90s podcast Quickly Kevin, Will He Score?, which has gone on to sell-out multiple live shows. Last year saw him return to the road for the first time in a few years, with his brand-new stand-up show Bit Much…which continues this Autumn.
Josh’s book - Watching Neighbours Twice A Day…How ’90’s TV Almost Prepared Me For Life (Bonnier) is a Sunday Times best seller.
ROB BECKETT
Rob can be seen beside fellow comedian and best mate Romesh Ranganathan in Sky’s BAFTA-nominated Rob And Romesh Vs, on ITV’s Paul Sinha’s TV Showdown and he is the unmistakable voice of Celebs Go Dating. He's also a team captain on Channel 4’s 8 Out of 10 Cats and in 2019 he hosted the Royal Variety Performance, alongside Romesh.
Rob has also written a Sunday Times best-selling book – A Class Act (Harper) – which is his autobiographical account of being working class in the middle-class world of television and comedy.
Rob’s cheeky persona has also seen him host Children In Need and Comic Relief. Other TV shows include multiple appearances on BBC One’s Live at the Apollo, Would I Lie To You?, The Graham Norton Show, All Round to Mrs Brown’s, Michael McIntyre’s Big Show, Sky One’s A League Of Their Own, Channel 4’s 8 Out Of 10 Cats and Cats Does Countdown, BBC Two’s Mock The Week, ITV’s Play To The Whistle and The Jonathan Ross Show, ITV Two’s Celebrity Juice, Dave’s Ultimate Worrier, Taskmaster and Hypothetical, and BBC quiz show Headhunters.
Rob Beckett’s tour Wallop! continues into 2022.
The podcast is produced and released by Keep It Light Media, whose slate also includes: Alan Carr’s Life’s a Beach, Jon Richardson And The Futurenauts, Suzi Ruffell’s hit LGBTQIA+ show Out with Suzi Ruffell and Like Minded Friends with Tom Allen and Suzi Ruffell.
MORE INFORMATION: www.robbeckettcomedy.com www.joshwiddicombe.com
Pre-sale: 16 February On-sale: 18 February at 10am
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