Dylan Moran: What It Is

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Who is the funniest man in Britain? Dara Ó Briain? Billy Connolly? Ricky Gervais? Quite possibly all three, to be honest. But when their constant overexposure gets a little old, people with a real hankering after genuine comedy go and find Dylan Moran .

The Irish comedian's What It Is tour has been so wildly successful that it's been extended. Starting in October last year, the tour now comes to the Apollo Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue. In person, Moran is slightly scatterbrained and irascible, not to mention wonderfully offensive. He stands on stage looking like a tramp that just wandered in off the street, his hair flying in hundreds of different directions, but it's hard not to warm to someone who just doesn't give a monkeys.

Moran is, of course, best known for his bumbling, antisocial character Bernard Black of the series Black Books – which only ran for three seasons. He had previously gained a small following for his roles in both Notting Hill and the BBC2 show How Do You Want Me? But it is Black Books which remains the show he is most closely associated with. Despite the show's short-lived pedigree, it propelled Moran to stardom. Specifically, it scored him roles in Simon Pegg's spoof Shaun of the Dead (he later went on to star with Pegg in the slightly less successful Run Fatboy Run.

If you have even the remotest love for comedy, you need to get down to the Apollo this November.

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