Surprise release on All4 tonight
Simon Bird has unveiled his debut stand-up TV special, without ever having performed it in front of an audience.
The surprise release – entitled Debrief – has just landed on Channel 4’s streaming service All 4.
It was recorded last month at the Boulevard Theatre in London with Bird facing empty seats and eerie silences.
In it, he even asks: ‘Can you even really call yourself a stand-up comedian if you’ve never heard a single person laugh?’
Over 45 minutes, the Inbetweeners and Friday Night Dinner star addresses topics such as nationalism, sexism, the environment, and the NHS as he looks at the decade leading up to the coronavirus pandemic.