The Fast Show returns for 30th anniversary live tour

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25 Jan 2024, 13:25

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Get your coat because The Fast Show is making a comeback with a series of live shows. And the tour is happening very soon. Nice!

An Evening With The Fast Show will run from February to April 2024, and will see many of the old gang back together. Brilliant!

Original cast members Simon Day, Charlie Higson, John Thomson, Paul Whitehouse, Mark Williams and Arabella Weir will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the massively popular BBC comedy sketch show by visiting theatres across the country this spring.

The old team will chat together to “provide a real behind-the-scenes insight” into how they came up with the characters and the catchphrases and will recreate some classic moments. You can expect to see the likes of Ted and Ralph, Competitive Dad, Dave Angel, Jesse, Swiss Toni, Ron Manager, Bob Fleming, The Girl Who Boys Can't Hear and more.

And prepare for those classic catchphrases, such as “Does my bum look big In this?” and, of course, “Ooh, suits you sir!”

Ahead of the tour, Charlie Higson says: "Taking The Fast Show out on tour is very much like making love to a beautiful woman."

While Gone Fishing’s Paul Whitehouse added: "I'm afraid I was very drunk."

In a statement, the show's promoters said: "This celebratory live tour will be a huge treat for fans of the multi-award winning quick-fire TV sketch show and provide a real behind-the-scenes insight into some of their favourite characters and catchphrases as they come alive on stage once again.

"The cast will chat together about how it all began, how they made the TV show, and created the characters and the fun they had doing it. This will be interspersed with performances of some of their best-loved sketches, monologues and songs, with on-screen inserts and a moment to remember their former collaborator, the late, great Caroline Aherne.”

Aherne sadly died of cancer in 2016 at the age of 52.

The Fast Show ran for three series from 1994 until 1997, with some specials following. There have been two live tours, in 1998 and 2002.

Tickets are on sale now through Ticketmaster. Here are the dates: