FATHER Ted star and current Taskmaster contestant Ardal O'Hanlon will be making an appearing at Storyhouse Chester later this year.

New dates have been added to his critically acclaimed tour, The Showing Off Must Go On, with Ardal taking to the Storyhouse stage on November 26 (8pm start).

Ardal is conflicted. Where he comes from there is nothing worse than showing off. It’s right up there with arson or murder. Yet he shows off as a way of life. Three questions. Why? Why? Why? But just when he thought he’d made sense of the world, when he’d finally found wisdom and peace, the world went mad again, fell off its axis. And you can’t just stand idly by.

In an age of raging populism, angry identity politics, the end of truth, the collapsing middle ground, and peak avocado, Ardal, an otherwise gentle voice of reason is forced to rejoin the fray. Terrified of being on the wrong side of history and keen to prove his age, race, gender and class don’t necessarily define him as a person, he turns to comedy, comedy as ever being the best, most therapeutic emergency response to extreme events there is.

Ardal O’Hanlon, star of such shows as Father Ted and Death in Paradise, and currently on screens in series 13 of Taskmaster, continues to tour live show worldwide.

As well as appearing at the major festivals - Montreal, Edinburgh, Melbourne - he presented The Stand Up Show on BBC for three series. He featured on the first ever series of Live At The Apollo, and the latest, and Michael Mcintyre’s Roadshow, not to mention his own Dave’s One Night Stand and a half-hour special for Comedy Central USA, the first overseas act to do so.

His forays into theatre include God Of Carnage (Gate Theatre) and The Weir (West End) for which he received a nomination for an Olivier Award.

He has written an acclaimed bestselling novel, The Talk Of The Town, which was included in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die and in 2022 released his second novel, Brouhaha.

Tickets are on sale now and available from https://www.mickperrin.com/tours/ardal-ohanlon-the-showing-off-must-go-on/ and https://www.storyhouse.com/event/ardal-ohanlon-the-showing-off-must-go-on