Award winning stand-up comedian and viral sensation Finlay Christie will head out on UK tour with his much anticipated second hour ‘I Deserve This’ following a run at Monkey Barrel 4 at the Edinburgh Fringe this summer. ‘I Deserve This’ is directed by Bobby Mair and will be playing venues in Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Sheffield, Brighton and at the London Leicester Square theatre.

 

Finlay’s debut hour "OK Zoomer" was not only nominated for NextUp's "Best Show" award, but was also released as a special on YouTube in October 2023, racking up a staggering 434,000 views.

 

In ‘I Deserve This’ Christie examines why young people secretly love climate change, why the news is only aimed at old people, and offers a foolproof plan to get young people on the property ladder. He delves into his private school experiences, which inspired the sitcom script ‘Born to Rule,’ optioned by Boffola Pictures and showcased in a pilot directed by Rosco 5 and featuring Isaac Hempstead-Wright from Game of Thrones.

 

Finlay also wonders if he has deserved the pitfalls of his privileged upbringing. Having attended a school focused on exam preparation, he found himself the only one in his class to fail and subsequently transferred to a school in East London. Craving the validation of his peers, he changed his accent, took down all his online sketches, and started rapping. He went on to study Caribbean dance in an attempt to further distance himself from his background.

 

He tells tales of his experiences with love and heartbreak in a religiously forbidden relationship, a meeting with a tiger in Thailand and a drug-induced paranoia that almost ended a family member’s life, and though these experiences made him feel more comfortable on his own, they are no substitute for human connection.

 

His YouTube channel has over 300m views. He has produced multiple hit online series, including “When they go to a foreign country in a Hollywood film” and “Asking black and white people the same questions about…”

 

TV includes 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, The Stand-Up Sketch Show, Comedy Central Live and The BBC New Comedy Awards. He has opened for Micky Flanagan on tour and has performed at the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal as well as in Paris, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Prague and Stockholm for the Comedy Store. He has also appeared as an actor in The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff (BBC2) with Stephen Fry and Waybuloo (CBeebies).

 

TICKETS:

 

15th October: Birmingham Glee – tickets here<https://booking.glee.co.uk/21391>.

 

23rd October: Manchester, Frog and Bucket – tickets here<https://booking.glee.co.uk/21391>.

 

25th October: Bristol, Hen and Chicken Studio – tickets here<https://www.thecomedybox.co.uk/site/301.asp?catID=2342>.

 

02nd November: Edinburgh, Stand – tickets here<https://www.thestand.co.uk/performance/14713/finlay-christie--ok-zoomer/20241102/edinburgh>.

 

03rd November: Glasgow, Stand – tickets here<https://www.thestand.co.uk/performance/14356/finlay-christie--ok-zoomer/20241103/glasgow>.

 

07th November: Leeds, Wardrobe – tickets here<https://www.seetickets.com/event/finlay-christie-i-deserve-this/the-wardrobe/3084001>.

 

11th November: Sheffiled, Leadmill – tickets here<https://leadmill.co.uk/event/finlay-christie/>.

 

19th November: London, Leciester Square Theatre – tickets here<https://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com/show/finlay-christie-i-deserve-this/>.

 

28th November: Brighton, Komedia – tickets here<https://www.komedia.co.uk/brighton/comedy/finlay-christie-i-deserve-this/>.