More London dates next year

James Acaster has announced a second West End run of his new stand-up show Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999.

The five-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee will be at London’s Phoenix Theatre for six gigs from January 14.

He has just completed a week-long run at the Vaudeville Theatre where he got five-star reviews across the board from the Guardian, The i, Evening Standard, Londonist and Chortle. Read our review here.

Explaining the name for the show, Acaster said: ‘One time I bought a lasagne from the supermarket, heated it up in the oven and ate a bit of it and it wasn’t very nice so I put it in the fridge because it felt wrong to dump a whole lasagne in the bin and then later on I ate a spoonful of the cold lasagne because I was drunk and it was absolutely delicious. It was 4am. 

‘I then changed the name of a WhatsApp group I was a part of to Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 because I had been thinking a lot about how 1999 was the best year of my life and also about how much I hate myself sometimes. The next day I was asked to name my new show.’

In the event, the show features no mention of lasagne. 

Tickets for the new run go  on sale at 10am next Friday. He will then tour the show around the UK in the autumn of 2019. Click here for that schedule,

Published: 16 Nov 2018