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Multi award-winning comedian, writer, actor, and television presenter Griff Rhys Jones is set to embark on a national stand-up tour this autumn with the second leg of his sell-out 2024 show The Cat’s Pyjamas.
Calling in at Richmond, Eastbourne and Dorking, the show shares witty observations and rambling comic stories. Griff’s funny anecdotes have covered an astonishingly diverse range of subjects: from TV travel, his childhood, Welsh family, age, fraud, late night trains and nostalgia to the TikTok generation, crocodile smuggling, and opal noodling in Australia.
Questions and improvised interaction with the audience mean the show varies from night to night. And takes him from adventures, holidays, dog sitting, burning boats, drink and anger-management, to meetings with rock celebrities and royalty. Wherever his associations wander.
The Cat’s Pyjamas follows Griff’s successful tours: Jones And Smith, Where Was I? which saw him play to capacity crowds across the UK, Australia and New Zealand, and his pre-Covid longest and biggest yet: All Over The Place.
The ccomedy legend and national treasure sprang to fame on the acclaimed Not The Nine O'Clock News, which was followed by Alas Smith And Jones. Restoration, It'll Be Alright On The Night and multiple arts and travel documentaries, including Griff’s Great Australian Rail Trip, Griff’s Great Kiwi Road Trip and Griff's Canadian Adventure: a critical and ratings success for Channel Four.
Theatre includes lead roles for Alan Ackbourn, Sam Mendes, Peter Hall, Nick Hytner and any others. He has played the Dury Lane as Fagin, Wembley with Live Aid, the Royal National Theatre as Toad. He was Max the Dog in the musical How The Grinch Stole Christmas, the lead in The Miser in the West End and he toured extensively with Janey Dee in An Hour And A Half Late. Griff also starred as Mr Parker in Gangster Granny Rides Again, for CBBC, and took a double starring role in the feature film Future TX. Griff has won two Oliviers, two British Comedy Awards, two Baftas, an Emmy and, pleasingly, a regatta in Barcelona. Griff’s upcoming projects include starring in I’m Sorry Prime Minister in early 2026, and a new Channel Four travel documentary exploring the Southern States, coming soon.
Griff Rhys Jones brings The Cat’s Pyjamas to Richmond Theatre on Weds 15 Oct, Eastbourne’s Devonshire Theatre on Fri 24 Oct and Dorking Halls on Sun 9 Nov, as part of a nationwide tour.
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