Alexander Bennett is a Chortle and Leicester Comedy Festival Award nominated comedian. His solo shows have received rave reviews, been recommended by the British Comedy Guide, featured in The Times Top Jokes of the Edinburgh Fringe and performed at London's prestigious Soho Theatre. He has been heard on the ‘Always Be Comedy’, ‘The Comedian’s Comedian’, and ‘Jokes with Mark Simmons’ podcasts, on the BBC (5 Live, Radio 4) and his own award nominated podcast ‘Born Yesterday’. He has been featured in The Guardian, Metro and iPaper.

“Surprisingly powerful - will leave you in tears of laughter.” ★★★★★ – Broadway World

Alexander Bennett: ‘All It Takes’

Wondering when all your hard work will pay off? Waiting for your lucky break? Well, multiple award nominated emotional comedian Alexander Bennett (Born Yesterday) has a creatively ambitious new show for you.

This show is about how achieving, building or creating things that are fulfilling (be that in our emotional lives, our relationships, our careers, our personal circumstances or within a work of art) requires both marginal gains and luck, and how that emotionally affects us. Intertwined with focussed stand up sections, the show features songs (performed live) with accompanying video elements. In the show Alexander talks about masculinity, mental health, the arts industry, hauntology, technological homogenisation, political stagnation, hustle culture and how to achieve ‘success’ as a man with no pension who had a breakdown trying to choose a meal deal.

How do we stay sane whilst working for a better life? How can we cope with the things that are out of our control? Do we have to be up all night to get lucky? Join Alexander for an oddly uplifting misanthropic pep talk.