Alistair Barrie

Alistaircratic. 

After a completely sold out 2018 Edinburgh Festival run, Alistair cancelled his 2019 show as his wife was giving birth, then took 2020 off to SINGLE-HANDEDLY battle Covid before returning north in 2021 for a short run, where he caught it and spent the next week in a basement with the dog, Netflix and and no children, which was one of the happiest weeks of his life.

He then wasted precious time writing his new show only for Vladimir Putin to render most of it obsolete. His latest hour of topical musings on Boris Johnson, global pandemics, fatherhood, Ukraine and how everything would be better if he was in charge now comes to The Shrewsbury International Comedy Festival before hopefully making it to Edinburgh in August.

But you can’t be sure of anything these days.

‘A no frills master of his craft’ The Scotsman