Nelson is renowned for his brilliantly dark material, as host of BBC’s smash-hit show The Good, The Bad & The Unexpected and from our very own online Saturday Live at the Stand comedy shows, as well as his viral creation “News at 3” (180+ million views!).
So it will be blistering and it will be hard hitting and above all, it will be very, very funny.
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