“Basically, comedy = tragedy + time”

Chuckle Busters presents…

After the success of his sold-out 2017/18 UK tour, comedian, choirboy and host of Soccer AM, Lloyd Griffith is back on the road with his hilarious new stand-up show.

Expect jokes, dubious impressions, jokes, a bit of choral singing, jokes, maybe a fact about a cathedral, jokes and probably the story about about that time he had a toilet incident on the A46.

“Lloyd bounces off the audience and has everyone laughing along with him. This is an hour of uplifting stand-up that’ll have you smiling for days. A warm, relatable and hilarious show.” ★★★★ Sunday Post

Here is the cherubic comic.

There’s perhaps a stereotypical image if your typical choirboy… how accurate is it? Is there even a choirboy ‘type’?
I think it’s pretty accurate, essentially a boy wearing a dress. I still wear the dress (cassock, if we’re being technical) today. Well, not actually today – but when I sing at either St George’s Chapel Windsor Castle, or Westminster Abbey (absolutely a humble brag).

Favourite English cathedral, and why? (Durham for me…) 
Exeter for me. I sang there for four years whilst at university and I absolutely fell in love with the place. It’s not actually the greatest building to sing in, as the stone absorbs all the sound, but the design is breathtaking. I just love the two-tower design as well, really quite unique.
What an organ too. Oooof.

Are the worlds of comedy and choral singing very different places, and do you ever find it strange moving between the two?.. 
I think that’s they’re actually very quite similar in that the worlds are quite small and you get to work with the same people. I love the juxtaposition of the two though, singing like a girl in a dress on one stage and then telling a stag party at Nottingham Just The Tonic to f**k off. It is imperative I don’t get the two mixed round.

How did you get into these two quite different worlds?
I became a choirboy at the age of six when I was offered a scholarship to my local choir school and then I just stuck with it. I then got in to comedy as I was having to do little ‘skits’ in between musical pieces when I was in a barbershop octet lol. Then luckily the two just fused and I became the choirboy comedian.

“Discussing the trials and tribulations of his chequered love life” – good comic fodder there. Can you give us a brief taster?
Basically, I keep getting dumped. Comedy = tragedy + time. It’s almost like my agent pays my ex-girlfriends to end it with me so I can get some new (heartache) material.

What other topics do you address in All Rounder?
Identity. Freedom of speech. Simply Red. Pint glasses. Being fat. My 5* deliveroo rating.

Lloyd Griffith performs All Rounder at the Bristol Improv Theatre on May 16. For more info, visit chucklebusters.com/events/lloyd-griffith-all-rounder-rescheduled

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