SUCH is his popularity, comedy giant Phill Jupitus has added more dates to his current tour.

A well known face of television, laughter making Phill is taking his Juplicity show to Millom's The Beggar's Theatre, on Saturday, November 3.

So, is there anything that Phill hasn’t done?

Well, he's been a DJ on BBC 6 Music, team captain on Never Mind The Buzzcocks, poet supporting Billy Bragg in the 1980s, TV and film actor, musical star of Hairspray and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and now returning to the live arena for a new stand-up tour in which he gets to be two people. "I have a lot of material to choose from for this tour,” says Phill. "The thing that really works for me is that I support myself as Porky The Poet, so he goes out and does 40 minutes to start the evening. Because of Buzzcocks and other jobs I was given, I let Porky and the poetry slide but after about a decade I came back to it and wrote new poems, often just chucking stuff out on Facebook for mates to read. Combined with the old poems, and factoring in chit-chat between them, I had about an hour of material.” He’s also got a proven track record of live music behind him from his time with the all-star Idiot Bastard Band.

For the autumn tour he'll two hours a night: 40 minutes poetry, quarter of an hour of songs, and the rest will be stand-up.

As with many acts on the road for a lengthy period, the show that is conceived at the beginning might not exactly replicate the one which exists by the end. "What happens on the tour becomes added to the tour," Phill insists. "It snowballs as it rolls down the hill of the dates. I wish I had the discipline of my comedy brothers and sisters and say 'it’s about this.' By the end, who knows, it could be about my love of the bridge work of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Still, that would do well in Bristol."

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