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Frankie Boyle has added extra dates to his Lap Of Shame Tour.

The Scottish comedian will now also take his new stand-up show to G Live in Guildford on October 11, Dartford's Orchard Theatre on November 13, Swansea Arena on February 7, Cardiff's New Theatre on February 14 and Swindon's Wyvern Theatre the next day. 

Tickets for Swansea go on sale at 10am on Thursday (July 20), with the other new dates going live at 10am on Friday (July 21).

Having sold out nine of his 12 shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August, Boyle will pick up the tour again at Torquay's Princess Theatre on September 2, with shows set to run until mid-November.

The next leg will then get going in January, with four consecutive shows at Dublin 3Olympia Theatre, though he will play a total of eight nights throughout the tour.

The Lap Of Shame Tour is currently set to conclude at Bristol Hippodrome on March 2, 2024. Tickets for all previously announced shows are on sale now.

Frankie Boyle Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows

Sat September 02 2023 - TORQUAY Princess Theatre - Torquay Sun September 03 2023 - BRISTOL Hippodrome Mon September 04 2023 - CHESTER StoryHouse Tue September 05 2023 - CHESTER StoryHouse Wed September 06 2023 - BRIGHTON Brighton Dome Tue September 19 2023 - LONDON Leicester Square Theatre Wed September 20 2023 - LONDON Leicester Square Theatre Tue September 26 2023 - LONDON Leicester Square Theatre Wed September 27 2023 - LONDON Leicester Square Theatre Sun October 01 2023 - STOCKTON Stockton Globe Tue October 03 2023 - NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE Tyne Theatre And Opera House Wed October 04 2023 - COVENTRY Warwick Arts Centre Thu October 05 2023 - LONDON New Wimbledon Theatre Wed October 11 2023 - GUILDFORD G Live Fri October 13 2023 - READING Hexagon Sat October 14 2023 - MANCHESTER Palace Theatre Sun October 15 2023 - MANCHESTER Palace Theatre Mon October 30 2023 - LIVERPOOL Liverpool Empire Wed November 01 2023 - STOKE Victoria Hall Thu November 02 2023 - WARRINGTON Pyramid and Parr Hall Mon November 06 2023 - BIRMINGHAM New Alexandra Theatre Tue November 07 2023 - OXFORD New Theatre Oxford Wed November 08 2023 - WOKING New Victoria Theatre Mon November 13 2023 - DARTFORD Orchard Theatre Mon November 20 2023 - BATH Forum Bath Mon January 08 2024 - DUBLIN 3Olympia Theatre Tue January 09 2024 - DUBLIN 3Olympia Theatre Wed January 10 2024 - DUBLIN 3Olympia Theatre Thu January 11 2024 - DUBLIN 3Olympia Theatre Sat January 13 2024 - DUBLIN 3Olympia Theatre Sun January 14 2024 - DUBLIN 3Olympia Theatre Thu January 25 2024 - GALWAY Leisureland Thu February 01 2024 - DUBLIN 3Olympia Theatre Fri February 02 2024 - DUBLIN 3Olympia Theatre Mon February 05 2024 - AYLESBURY Aylesbury Waterside Theatre Wed February 07 2024 - SWANSEA Swansea Arena Thu February 08 2024 - SWANSEA Swansea Arena Mon February 12 2024 - YORK Grand Opera House York Wed February 14 2024 - CARDIFF New Theatre Thu February 15 2024 - SWINDON Wyvern Theatre Sat March 02 2024 - BRISTOL Bristol Hippodrome

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Frankie Boyle announces 2023 tour

Lap Of Shame to play 52 venues

Frankie Boyle has announced a major new tour for 2023.

The Glaswegian will be playing at least 52 dates with his Lap Of Shame show, kicking off at Newcastle’s Tyne Theatre and Opera House on February 27.

It comes despite the comic saying that he was tiring of life  on the road, and last night he tweeted: ‘I’m doing a tour. I really don’t want to but my family need a break.’

Promotional blurb for the new show says: ‘Buy a ticket, because by the time he arrives, the currency will be worthless and you and your neighbours part of a struggling militia that could probably use a few laughs.’

Lap Of Shame debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe this year and Boyle  has been doing a number of work-in-progress gigs in Glasgow and London working up material for the tour and his BBC Two show New World Order, which is currently in its sixth series.

Boyle also published his first novel, Meantime, this summer ( review ) and at the Edinburgh Book Festival in August said: ‘I would much rather, if I could, segue into writing novels and just stay in the house and not travel so much. I would happily do that if I could.’

Tickets for the new tour go on sale at 10am on Friday.

» Frankie ​Boyle tour dates and ticket links.

The news comes as British-Kurdish stand up Kae Kurd also announces a 2023 tour entitled Kurd Immunity, and Internet hit Troy Hawke extends his Sigmund Troy’d show into next year.

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Watch Grace in Ireland

The British crime drama series is an ITV original based on the Roy Grace novel by Peter James, where the detective Roy uses paranormal entities to solve his cases.

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The reality TV show Unbreakable is full of drama, fun and emotional challenges. Six celebrity couples face physical and mental challenges in the show to prove their affection.

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A show where contestants play against one another to claim the prize money. The business reality TV show is an ITV original with over 16 seasons.

Watch Top Gear in Ireland

Top Gear is a TV show where they examine and review vehicles, primarily cars. It is one of the longest-running TV shows, with over 32 seasons. 

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Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh With Lap of Shame, the comic delivers a set of breathtakingly rude jokes and thought-provoking ghastliness

A friend of Frankie Boyle’s, he tells us, stopped watching standup because it’s either “clever but not funny, or funny but not clever”. Boyle, of course, is an exception: his work makes you think, or has you marvelling at its merciless vision, even as it prompts laugh after appalled laugh. It also, these days, questions itself. As on his 2019 tour , the Glaswegian is still puzzling out the value of his nasty comedy in our ever-nastier world. Are necrophilia gags justifiable? Should he only tell jokes whose ethical intentions are clear?

Cynics, who presumably form a significant quotient in his audience, might think Boyle is having it both ways here – distancing himself from his jokes’ ghastliness while continuing (“If your favourite texture is a corpse’s clitoris …”) to tell ghastly jokes. But it’s certainly true that he cracks fewer gratuitously mean gags than he used to, and that most of his wee horror show constructions serve to amplify an opinion or rocket-fuel some political argument – burlesquing the inequities of the royal family or Richard Branson, say, or desecrating the pious conceit that work should be personally fulfilling. Or indeed affirming his own low moral stature, as per the gags about trying to have sex with a Nazi.

The other development in Boyle’s comedy is a slight loosening of the straitjacket in which his twisted vision is presented to us. The battery of gags relents a little, and there’s more of himself in there. His kids make an appearance; so too his mournful Donegal parents, who feature for a second show running.

But it’s a question of degree: your main take-home will still be the 49-year-old’s breathtakingly rude and brilliantly assembled jokes, which here dissect rapist policemen, Irish folk songs, Keir Starmer (“if he ran at a pigeon, it wouldn’t move”) and the feelings other serial killers harbour for Harold Shipman. Time after time, Boyle’s vision and violent lyricism catches your breath – because they’re so alarming, and because there’s an honesty to them that cuts through the blandifying white noise, revealing our brutal-as-Boyle world, if only for a joke’s length, in its true colours.

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Frankie Boyle has confirmed a date at Leisureland Galway on 25 th January 2024 as part of his Lap Of Shame tour.

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Frankie also plays four dates at 3Olympia Dublin on 8 th , 9 th , 10 th and 11 th January 2024.  Tickets are on sale now.

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