New dates for controversial comic

 Jerry Sadowitz has announced a tour of Scotland for next year.

The controversial comic – who was infamously cancelled during last year’s Edinburgh Fringe – has announced ten dates in February and March.

Promotional blurb for the Comedian, Magician, Pyschopath tour says: ‘Yes - the man with no visible demographic returns to simultaneously amuse, offend, baffle and upset you while parting you of hard-earned cash.’

At last year’s Fringe, the Pleasance cancelled the second of two planned shows by the comedian, saying it had received an unprecedented number of complaints about his racist, sexist and homophobic language. 

In response, Sadowitz, said his act had been ‘cheapened and simplified’ by the venue, explaining that his act contains ‘a lot of silly, exaggerated irony and nonsense, real fake and exaggerated anger and bile... for the purpose of the funny line which follows it’.

On the back of the publicity the row generated, Sadowitz played the biggest venue of his career – the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith, West London – and he returned to the Fringe this year for a one-off gig at the Queen's Hall, which attracted no outrage.

Tickets for next year’s show go on sale at 10am tomorrow. 

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Published: 19 Oct 2023