Ivo Graham's 'Live From The Bloomsbury Theatre' With His New Funny & Warm-Hearted Special

April 5, 2024 Stephen Frost

This month is Worldwide Comedy Month here at 800 Pound Gorilla. And up next, we're ecstatic to be bringing a fantastic new stand-up comedy special all the way from across the pond with the UK's poshest comedian Ivo Graham & his newest show, Live From The Bloomsbury Theatre.

After two years of global/domestic chaos, lockdown is over and the boy is back in town. Recorded in Fall of 2022 at the Bloomsbury Theatre, Ivo blasts through his most urgent concerns of the early 2020s, plus a few from the late 1990s, in a show beautifully filmed in London at the end of his "My Future, My Clutter" UK tour, with a freshly ironed shirt, a handful of schoolboy stories and a really quite outlandish amount of lamps on the stage.

It's all here, if by "all" you mean go karting regulations, Radio One text-ins, Eagles documentaries, and KFC's social media presence. Or, indeed, nuclear fallout, Peppa Pig World, Daniel Craig announcing the weekend famously from Saturday Night Live, and the politics of your favourite malt loaf. How about wordles in nightclubs, risottos on Zoom, masks on stag dos, and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s red card against Newcastle in 1998? Ivo is unpacking the whole feelings box of his life for you here, and he's hopeful and confident that you'll enjoy it. Or, to put it more succinctly: ladies and gentlemen, the special.

This critically acclaimed show has been praised by The Times calling Graham a comedian "mastering his craft with motormouthed finesse...if self-deprecation were a sport, Graham would have a gold medal round his neck." The Chortle calls this show "an hour of fine material by a performer ever-growing in confidence as he reconnects with a real-life audience."

Currently on his Organised Fun tour across the UK, Graham can also be seen co-hosting the Gig Pigs Podcast with fellow stand-up comedian Alex Kealy, where the two friends reflect over the past decade & a half of watching live music together and opening them up on the floor every week.