Alasdair Beckett-King: King of Crumbs

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Come vagabonds, come mountebanks, come coney-catchers and cutpurses and meet the King of Crumbs! Alasdair Beckett-King: King of Crumbs is at Norden Farm Centre for the Arts on Thursday 12 November at 8pm. Tickets are £21.50 (plus a £1.90 per transaction booking fee).

Alasdair Beckett-King is the crumbliest comedian in the game: a multi-award-winning stand-up comic and (occasionally) an internet sensation.

In King Of Crumbs, Alasdair blends his smart writing with his offbeat comic sensibility. Times are hard for a medieval whimsy pedlar. The milk of human kindness has curdled into the cheese of mistrust - hungrily devoured on the crackers of hatred. Which is bad news for everyone, especially the vegans. 

Alasdair is a legendary comedian and writer, in that there is little historical evidence that he exists. However, he has performed on Channel 4’s 8 out of 10 Cats, BBC’s Mock the Week, Comedy Central Live and he recently made his debut on BBC’s Would I Lie To You. His episode of Celebrity Mastermind will go out later this year. He is also a regular on BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz and at the Glastonbury Festival.

Following several viral videos and sell-out runs at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Alasdair embarked upon his first UK tour in 2023. In the same year, Walker Books began publishing his Montgomery Bonbon series of children’s mystery novels. 

Alasdair is the co-host of Loremen, a podcast about historical oddities and local legends. With Eleanor Morton, he recently launched Eleanor and Alasdair Read That, a new podcast revisiting classic kids’ books.

With his distinctive comic voice, Alasdair is the only comedian daring enough to ask the real questions: Who watches the watchmen? Who milks the milkmen? How come ducks quack at the speed they walk? These are the mysteries that plague the King of Crumbs. As the pillars of civilisation crumble into the sea of chaos, Alasdair makes a rallying cry for uplifting nonsense.