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Andy Zaltzman: The Zaltgeist

Following a sell-out 2024/2025 national run, Andy Zaltzman extends his hit tour into 2026 and brings it to The Royal Lyceum Edinburgh on 25th April.

Andy Zaltzman: The Zaltgeist

About Andy Zaltzman: The Zaltgeist

25th April 2026
7.30pm
The Royal Lyceum Edinburgh
Royal Lyceum Theatre Grindlay Street, Edinburgh West EH3 9AX
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Following a sell-out 2024/2025 national run, Andy Zaltzman–host of The Bugle podcast and BBC Radio4’s The News Quiz, statistician on Test Match Special, and champion of Taskmaster series 18 – extends his hit tour into 2026.

Fully updated due to the UK and the world both steadfastly refusing to sort themselves out, Andy assesses the state of renowned planet Earth, its under-pressure current in-house millennium, and its most famous and controversial species – the human race.

With politicians the world over striving to outdo each other in splattering their people with a cocktail of incompetence, inexplicability and insatiable dishonesty, Andy, the universe’s leading and only 2-in-1 political-comedian-and-professional-cricket-statistician, harnesses the combined 21st-century witchcraft of A.I. and his live audience. Between them, they will concoct vaguely plausible answers to perennially troublesome questions such as What?, Who?, When?, Where?, and above all Why?

WARNING: May feature talking penguin.

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