CULT comedy legend Garth Marenghi, the character portrayed by comedian Matthew Holness, has launched a new UK tour.
There will be 18 shows taking place across the whole of the UK, including one at the Glasgow Old Fruitmarket on November 27.
The tour is in support of Marenghi’s first book TerrorTome.
Marenghi was first created by Holness and The IT-Crowd star Richard Ayoade. The character is a fictional horror author who is completely unaware of his lack of talent.
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Joining up with fellow comedian Alice Lowe, the pair performed the award-nominated Fright Knight at the 2000 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
They then returned to the Fringe in 2001 with the show Netherhead, which won the Best Show award.
The character was then taken to television where, collaborating with What We Do in the Shadows star Matt Berry, they produced cult Channel 4 sitcom Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace.
An official synopsis of the book and show explains: “When horror writer Nick Steen gets sucked into a cursed typewriter by the terrifying typeface, Dark Lord of the Prolix, the hellish versions inside his head are unleashed for real.
“Forced to fight his escaping imagination – now leaking out of his own brain – Nick must defend the town of Stalkford from his own fictional horrors, including avascular-necrosis-obsessed serial killer Nelson Strain and Nick’s dreaded throppleganger, the Dark Third.”
Tickets go on sale on November 4 at 10am at livenation.co.uk.
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