When it comes to observational comedy, Mark Steel is an expert and he's coming to Diss Corn Hall.
Speaking to him on the telephone as he downed a coffee in Crystal Palace, London, Steel launches immediately in to a tirade about the woes of trying to get through to the right person at a call centre.
"Aren't they just a nightmare?" he asks.
"Maybe we ought to do to our home phones what they do to theirs and get our friends to press one for one person, two for someone else and then say something like 'Your call is important to us' when really it isn't!"
His takes on the modern trials of life will leave his audience nodding in agreement.
His show, coming to the Corn Hall on November 7, takes the theme of his new book, What's Going On?, a question all of us ask at some point.
Topics discussed and dissected in his own style will include why more than a million people marching in London couldn't stop the war in Iraq and why supermarkets are killing the town centres of Britain.
He has performed as a stand up comedian since 1983 and has written and performed four series of The Mark Steel Solution and The Mark Steel Lectures, both on Radio 4.
The television version of the
Mark Steel Lectures – profiles of historical figures – ran for three series on BBC4 and was nominated for a BAFTA award and a Royal Television Society Award.
The show on November 7 starts at 8pm. Tickets cost £12 and are available from Diss Library, Diss Tourist Information Centre or by calling 01379 650618.
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