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David Baddiel, Trolls: Not the Dolls is at Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone and the Orchard Theatre, Dartford

06:00, 05 February 2020

Comedian David Baddiel gave us an excrutiatingly funny celebration of his parents' eccentricities with the one-man Olivier Award nominated show, My Family: Not the Sitcom.

The year also saw the return of the No.1 seminal football anthem Three Lions, which managed a recordbreaking fourth time at the top of the official UK chart.

David Baddiel will be at Leas Cliff Hall this weekend, and later at the Orchard Theatre, Dartford
David Baddiel will be at Leas Cliff Hall this weekend, and later at the Orchard Theatre, Dartford

He's following it up with a brand new one-man show, Trolls: Not the Dolls, which has two dates in Kent as part of its 52-date 2020 tour, in Folkestone and Dartford.

His subject is trolls – the people who spend all day insulting and abusing strangers online. There is a common wisdom about how to deal with such people: don’t, for goodness sake, encourage them by replying to them.

It’s a good law but one David has consistently broken - because he has always seen trolls as hecklers. And if a comedian gets heckled, it is their duty not to ignore the heckler, but to wittily put them down. Over the years, David has spent a lot of time doing this, which has led him to think that there might be a show in it: a show that would say something about how we live now.

Comedian David Baddiel
Comedian David Baddiel

Trolls: Not the Dolls is at the Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone on Saturday, February 8. Get tickets (plus a booking fee) at atgtickets.com It is also at the Orchard Theatre, Dartford, on Wednesday, April 22. Book at orchardtheatre.co.uk

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