GEOFF Norcott is that very rare thing in the UK comedy scene – he is a Conservative! But coming out as a right-winger hasn’t impeded his career too badly, and he is now on a new tour, Basic Bloke 2 – “There’s no Bloke without Fire” – coming to the Electric Palace at Bridport on Saturday 15th November and Exeter’s Northcott Theatre on Sunday 16th.

Revealing his political alignment came in 2013, when he was nominated for Best New Show at the Leicester Comedy Festival for Geoff Norcott Occasionally Sells Out, which was about – among other things – the fact he was now a Conservative voter. He also took this show to the Edinburgh Fringe.

This new national tour 2025-2026 for a regular star of Have I Got News For You, The Last Leg, Would I Lie to You?, Live At The Apollo, 8 Out of 10 Cats, The News Quiz, Geoff Norcott’s Working Men’s Club and many more, is his first tour under a Labour government, so he’s got plenty to get off his chest!

Geoff is also taking advantage of the rediscovered tolerance towards jokes being jokes to tell you what he really thinks. How much he judges people. Bad parents, people who eat too much, anyone who wears a dressing gown beyond 9am … it’s fair to say the gloves are off.

Unlike most sequels, Basic Bloke 2 will move beyond some of the themes of the original (while fully aware that a comedian doing a ‘sequel’ at all is a bit ridiculous). He’s been moving in male mental health circles for a while, but while they’re all saying blokes should ‘check in’ on each other, he’s wondering what happens if you do ‘check in’ all the time but they mainly want to send you politically incorrect memes.

Geoff Norcott will also be at Salisbury Arts Centre on 31st January 2026, Wimborne’s Tivoli Theatre on 1st February, Taunton’s Brewhouse Theatre on 11th March, the Wedgewood Rooms at Portsmouth on 31st March, Theatre Royal Winchester on 1st April.