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Will the recycling be put out on the right day? Who is going to smooth over the top of the margarine? How many lights are on upstairs when everybody is downstairs? Watch Jon Richardson pretend that these aren’t his foremost concerns as he leaves home on his first tour since the last one.

Jon Richardson is one of the UK’s finest live comedians, and he is back this autumn with an all new stand-up tour – The Knitwit. Be sure to catch him as he performs at some of the country’s top live venues, beginning at Chester Storyhouse on Tuesday 8th September, and ending at Warwick Arts Centre on Friday 11th December. 

Jon has risen to the top of the comedy rankings with his brilliantly sophisticated, fastidious humour. His last tour, the critically acclaimed Old Man, saw him tour the UK for eighteen months between 2017 and 2018, and release his third best-selling comedy DVD. Jon has released two further DVDs of his earlier sell-out tours: Funny Magnet in 2012, and Nidiot in 2014. 

As one of the most in demand comedy acts on TV, Jon is best known as team captain on Channel 4’s 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Cats Countdown as well as host of two series of Dave’s Ultimate Worrier. His other recent TV appearances include occasional host of The One Show, Would I Lie To You, Have I Got News For You, Insert Name Here, Hypothetical, Taskmaster, 2019’s The Great Celebrity Bake Off for SU2C, Michael McIntyre’s Big Show, Jon Richardson’s Guide To The End Of The World, plus the upcoming Channel 4 series Kevin McCloud’s Rough Guide To The Future.

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Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont: ‘All couples argue – but we put our arguments on TV’

Meet the Richardsons sees the married standups play fictional versions of themselves – but that doesn’t mean reality doesn’t creep in from time to time

“W e don’t stay in posh hotels in London,” says Jon Richardson . In a posh hotel in London. “We’re not celebrities really, are we?” adds his wife, Lucy Beaumont. “We’re just us. We don’t really hang out in London and go to premieres.” She pauses. “Like the one we’re going to tonight.”

What’s this? Have I trapped Britain’s best-loved comedy couple in an instance of rank hypocrisy? Richardson and Beaumont, for those unfamiliar, are standup comics (and in Richardson’s case, panel show royalty as an ex-team captain on 8 Out of 10 Cats) who also co-host Channel 4’s Jon & Lucy’s Odd Couples, casting judgment on other celeb relationships from their lofty celeb-relationship pinnacle. They are also stars of the hit mockumentary Meet the Richardsons , which chronicles their married life – or a fictional version thereof.

That show majors in the tension between their fame and their glamour-free domestic life – and it’s the VIP launch of its new series that justifies all this current London luxury, albeit for one day only. If the show is to be believed, they’ll soon be back in the north of England squabbling, being parents, being neighbours and trying to catch a break in the rough and tough entertainment world. But is the show to be believed? “None of it is real,” says Beaumont. “But we enjoy making it seem as if it is.” Another pause. “But then some things are.”

The series started life when its producer saw Jon and Lucy grumbling at each other on a TV show called Married to a Celebrity. He proposed a mockumentary following the couple around at a particular moment in their shared lives. “We lived in a little village in West Yorkshire in the middle of nowhere,” says Beaumont. “Neither of us worked much. I was getting back into things after having a daughter, and you [Jon] were doing bits. But we were cut off. And we were hanging out with our neighbours.”

Those neighbours were cast in the show alongside Beaumont’s larger-than-life mum (the playwright Gill Adams), and a roster of celeb pals (Rob Beckett, Johnny Vegas, David Tennant) appearing as themselves, while Jon and Lucy made hapless efforts to rebuild their TV careers. What has emerged over four series is a show that’s carved out its own comic niche in the same ballpark as Curb Your Enthusiasm but with added talking heads, droll cutaways and moments of “unadulterated documentary”, says Richardson, amid the semi-scripted larks. Most importantly, it’s “a high gag-rate comedy show”, he says, and when he’s filming, “if I can see the crew aren’t laughing, it’s not in the show. They should be laughing.”

Beaumont agrees: “I was getting annoyed with comedy-drama. I felt like sitcom needed to get back to making people laugh every three lines.” It is Beaumont – also the co-creator of the recent Channel 4 comedy Hullraisers about her home town – who writes the show, alongside Peter Kay’s Car Share co-creator Tim Reid.

Richardson’s role, he tells me, “is to be humiliated and look embarrassed”. Meet the Richardsons provides him with ample opportunity, as he bursts into flames at a children’s party while dressed as a monkey, or – in the new series – disappoints his comedy hero, Ben Elton. Is it right to assume his haplessness and Beaumont’s career anxiety are all exaggerated for comic effect (she has, after all, been nominated for a Bafta for her performance)? “That’s Lucy’s skill as a writer,” says Richardson. “To understand that sitcom is driven by a need. If we’re successful and happy and calm, you lose that fundamental element of comedy.”

That said, “we went to Center Parcs recently,” says Beaumont, “and a lady in the toilet said to me: ‘Isn’t it nice that your husband’s let you be on telly with him?’ And you’re just like: ‘OK, I can now go away and write a scene.’” Even in real life, she says, “I very much still feel like the jealous wife who’s hungry for a career.”

But she also feels – much to the consternation of the show’s publicist, within earshot – that Meet the Richardsons is becoming too career-focused. “The new series is too work-based,” she says. “It’s my least favourite.”

“You liked it in series one,” shoots back Richardson, “and you haven’t liked it since.”

“We’re missing a bit of dock pudding,” says Beaumont – referring to the show’s second episode, when the duo judged the (real, not fictional) World Dock Pudding cookery competition in Hebden Bridge. “I was like: this is exactly what I want to be making,” says Beaumont. “I like it less when the show recreates a celebrity thing we’ve been to – I like it when we’re interacting with real people.”

Watching the show, you can’t help but wonder how it affects the couple’s real-life relationship, and whether there might be aspects of their private life they’d prefer to keep behind closed doors. Richardson says not really. “In series four, I shit myself in the car. So it’s difficult to know what I would veto.”

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For Beaumont, it’s not an issue – because their lives in Meet the Richardsons are separate from the private reality. (Their TV house is not their real house. Their TV daughter is an actor.) Not that their fans see it that way. “Because we’re playing ourselves,” says Beaumont, “I do think people come up to us more [in public] and assume they know us. Definitely.”

That’s not a bad thing, she says – and Richardson too can see upsides to their unusual televised lives. “Every couple argues,” he says, “but we have an end product for our arguments. We hone them then put them on TV. And then it’s like: ‘Oh, perhaps we weren’t arguing – perhaps we were just working on a routine.’”

Are they concerned about becoming more famous as a couple than as individuals? “As long as I can do standup, which is such a pure selfish moment, I don’t mind,” says Richardson, now celebrating 20 years as one of the UK’s finest comic curmudgeons. “As long as I can tour, and that’s just my voice – well, that’s such a privilege.” Beaumont, too, nominated best newcomer at the Edinburgh fringe back in 2014 , is embarking on a standup tour. Its title, The Trouble and Strife, suggests no great desire to slough off the Richardsons connection.

This first foray into standup in a decade has raised old demons for Beaumont, which her new career as a successful TV writer has yet to slay. “I know now,” she says, “that what put me off standup was the horrific misogyny that I suffered.” Only a decade ago, she says, promoters still didn’t want to book female comics; comperes introduced them with an apology and “you’d get on stage and the audience would instantly look embarrassed before you said anything. Or they would use you as the time to go to the toilet.”

It led to her convincing herself “that I don’t belong here, I’m not good enough, I’m not funny”. Four series of a hit TV show later, she says, “I still have all that in my head whenever I do anything. And it’s really frustrating that men don’t. So my thing with the new tour is I just want to make it” – like Meet the Richardsons before it – “the funniest thing it can be.”

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Jon Richardson: The Knitwit

Review of the comic's current stand-up tour

It has been more than three years since The Knitwit was announced, so Jon Richardson admires the admin skills of anyone who has still made it to the right theatre at the right time. This is a comic who values organisational nous.

Not that the first half necessarily feels like it’s been so long in the making, as he simply, if amusingly, recounts stunts you might already have seen him undertake on A League Of Their Own, such as facing Freddie Flintoff’s bowling or trying to score a conversion a Twickenham. He’s not, of course, a traditionally sporty guy, so it’s dependable fish-out-of-water stuff.

The showbiz anecdote nature of this section is spiced up with some uncharacteristically savage attacks on celebrities. It’s often for no real reason, playing up to the fact that ‘petty’ is a less attractive aspect of his pernicketiness. However, in Ant & Dec’s case, he has just cause in sniping at their greed in advertising a bank when they’re already super-wealthy.

Such flecks of grit stop the first half from being quite so cosy as his trademark cardigan, although it remains a largely gentle, soft-hitting affair, with only the memories of childhood PE lessons – and a special awakening – proving memorable

In the second half, domestic tensions prove a much richer seam, even if many fans will have already seen the fictionalised version of his marriage on TV. His wife, Lucy Beaumont , writes Dave’s fake reality show Meet The Richardsons, so this, perhaps, is his right to reply.

As his fastidiousness butts up against her more laissez-faire attitude, he wonders whether opposites really do attract. The Nespresso-style coffee machine is a particular flashpoint, as is giving their daughter a banana she won’t eat. Think of the food waste!

As he turns 40, he says his young daughter has provided an antidote to his buttoned-down tendencies. It’s hard to be too much of a stickler when you have a toddler, and his sign-off routine here has a focus on his bumhole that he admits he’d probably not have done without her.

It may not be the most sophisticated of subjects, but that it plays against his usually repressed ways – ‘anal’ in an entirely different way – gives it a boost. And he does nail the unedifying topic with precision and skill.

Richardson has such a well-defined persona of grouchy pedantry that even with this slight expansion of his comic horizons, The Knitwit can feel as safe as his risk-averse image.

But then a savvy bit of writing will cut through, such as the delightful image of him delving deeper into the digital channels late at night only to be confronted with a ‘ younger and less competent’ version of himself in ever-ageing repeats. He’s undoubtedly competent now, dependably, relateably funny… even if some of his grumbles would benefit from a little more bite.

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Review date: 17 Oct 2022 Reviewed by: Steve Bennett

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One of the most individual, accomplished and hilarious stand-ups, Jon is best known as the team captain on Channel 4’s 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. Jon also stars in the sitcom Meet the Richardsons, written by Lucy Beaumont and Tim Reid, which received record breaking figures for Dave across the series.

Constantly in demand for TV and radio, Jon’s most recent TV credits include hosting Channel Hopping with Jon Richardson, as well as appearances on Have I Got News for You, The One Show, Live at the Apollo, Would I Lie to You? and Taskmaster.

Jon can also be heard on his regular podcast Jon Richardson and the Futurenauts, where Jon takes Mark Stevenson and Ed Gillespie through his daily worries, from food to climate change. He can also be heard co-hosting the Comedians Playing Fantasy Premier League podcast, alongside Matt Forde, where they sometimes discuss the football.

Jon is set to return to the road in autumn 2022 with his brand-new show The Knitwit.

‘Sublimely brilliant, stunning… he is a comic right on the verge of greatness. If you haven’t seen him yet get your finger out and sort it’ Time Out

‘Jon Richardson is developing into a quietly sophisticated comedian who is at turns hilarious and disturbing and under no circumstances should you miss’ The Mirror

‘So good he actually bends time’ Chortle

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The special, one-night-only gig will take place June 20 at Fenway Park. Tickets will go on sale Friday, May 10, at 10 a.m. local time via Live Nation. An artist presale will take place May 8 at 10 a.m., with full details available on Del Rey's website . 

The Fenway show was announced on the heels of Del Rey's headlining sets at Coachella last month. During weekend one, she welcomed special guest Billie Eilish for performances of "Ocean Eyes" and "Video Games," while weekend two featured a special appearance from Camila Cabello for a performance of her new single, "I Luv It." On top of all that, Jack Antonoff and Jon Batiste joined Del Rey on stage both weekends, as well.

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