GRIFF RHYS JONES
Bringing His Live Show Adventure “Where Was I?” to New Zealand
AUCKLAND, NZ (July 30, 2018) – GRIFF RHYS JONES, UK comedy great, actor and star of the iconic Not the Nine O’Clock News, is bringing his hilarious live show of stories, anecdotes and stand-up, Where Was I?, to New Zealand this November.
Griff will deliver an evening of laughter from forty years of travelling - through family, manhood and the world itself.
He has been down rivers and up mountains - literally into Africa, out of India and across oceans in Three Men and A
Boat, Mountains, Rivers and other adventures. But he has also crossed the arid wastes of the BBC. He’s navigated being
sixty. He’s explored the jungles of indignity. He’s turned downhill without a mapin to a career. And along the way, he
will address the nature of travel itself, making travel television and the truth about wanderlust and cruises.
Tickets for all shows go on sale at 3pm this Friday, August 3.
My Live Nation members can be among the first to secure tickets during the pre-sale commencing at 1pm Wednesday, August
1.
For complete tour and ticketing information, visit: livenation.co.nz
Outside of Not the Nine O’Clock News, Griff Rhys Jones worked alongside Rowan Atkinson, Pamela Stephenson and Mel Smith. The duo Alas Smith and Jones, with
his now departed partner Mel Smith, were one of the seminal comedy acts of their time. Griff went on to establish
himself as a presenter in various television shows such as Three Men in a Boat, It’ll Be Alright on the Night, and Rivers with Griff Rhys Jones and founded the production company Talkback Productions, which produced comedy series including Da Ali G Show, I’m Alan Partridge and Smack the Pony.
Where Was I? uses Griff’s personal jaunts from the last fifteen years to explore universal themes like how to use the self-check in
and why we need to get out while we still can. He has sailed a boat to St Petersburg and around the Med. He has
travelled in Morocco, the Galapagos, India and Australia. But mostly he has ventured forth to work for TV, making Greatest Cities, A Slow Train to Africa, In Search of the Black Rhino, Burma and The Forgotten Army, several series of Three Men In A Boat and programs on mountains, rivers, lost routes and tribal art.
He’ll dive in to those “making of” snippets for the real truth about TV travel. He has wandered from the Torres Strait
Islands to Mali, from Moscow to Dar es Salaam, ridden “the train of death”, jumped from a burning boat in the Galapagos,
sat with tribal elders and been ordered off their island. He has unwillingly climbed up mountains and abseiled down
waterfalls, gone window cleaning on New York skyscrapers without a safety rope and clambered through Manchester’s most
demanding sewers. He has a few words to say about budget airlines too.
Where Was I? promises to be a riotous ride around the world. And all without the help of Bear Grylls.
‘great comedy’ The Telegraph
‘jokes at his own expense come faster than the rapids on the River Tay’ The Guardian
TSB THEATRE, NEW PLYMOUTH FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2
Q THEATRE, AUCKLAND SUNDAY NOVEMBER 4
ISAAC THEATRE ROYAL, CHRISTCHURCH WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 7
TICKETS ON SALE 3PM FRIDAY, AUGUST 3
My Live Nation pre-sale: 1pm Wednesday, August 1 until 1pm Friday, August 3
For complete tour and ticketing information, visit: livenation.co.nz
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