Comedy / Alex Kealy
Alex Kealy brings new show ‘The Fear’ to Bristol
Characterised for his smart mix of political satire, self-deprecating humour and an undeniably high gag rate, Alex Kealy is a comic in demand.
A regular writer for TV and radio shows including Mock The Week (BBC Two) and Radio 4’s The News Quiz and The Now Show, he has also appeared on Rhys James’ What Are You Talking About? and in the TV mini-series Grave New World (Turtle Canyon).
His music fandom podcast Gig Pigs – which he co-hosts with best friend and fellow comic Ivo Graham – has welcomed guests including James Acaster, Nish Kumar, Josh Widdicombe, Ed Gamble, Lou Sanders, Lolly Adefope, Rose Matafeo, John Kearns, and Felix White.
Alex Kealy, The Fear
But it is on the live standup circuit where he is perhaps most at home – regularly performing at clubs around the country, and now a veteran of six hours at the Edinburgh Fringe, where he has earned his place on plenty of best joke lists across the media.
Kealy is now half-way through a UK tour of The Fear, which spans a five-month period in the first half of 2025, and he visits the Alma Theatre on May 1.
In the show, as a newly married but perpetually anxious man, he turns his attention to rigorously over-thinking his own happiness.
Along the way, he promises material about “the over-examination of coffee machines, the book of Ephesians, duty-free shopping, monarchy, how love is like totalitarianism, beach holidays, death, losing your voice, organised religion and Toblerone”.
Alex Kealy: The Fear is at The Alma Theatre on May 1 at 7.30pm. Tickets are available at www.chucklebusters.com. Follow Alex @alexkealy and @gigpigspodcast.
All photos: Matt Stronge
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