Phoenix Nights favourite Dave Spikey is bringing his new one-man show, Words Don’t Come Easy, to Wolverhampton’s Wulfrun Hall.

Described by Time Out as “not only a very funny accomplished comedian, but one of the finest raconteurs around”, Spikey will be at the Wulfrun on Thursday, November 3, 2011. Tickets priced £17 are available from Midland Box Office on 0870 320 7000 or online at www.wolvescivic.co.uk

Inspired by the fantastic audience response to his deconstruction of song lyrics in his 2008/09 Best Medicine Tour, and his fascination with the vagaries of the English language, Spikey’s hilarious new show examines many of life’s situations where words really don’t come easy.

These include tongue-tied parents explaining the facts of life, ridiculous newspaper stories, magazine poems, adolescent chat-up lines, weird hospital speak, learning a foreign language and an extended selection of song lyrics that range from the lazy through surreal to the ridiculous.

Throw in a “Champion the Wonder Horse” sing-a-long, ancient Abyssinian contraception, rubbish school trips, Epidural Anaesthesia and The Last Supper and you have all the ingredients for a rich and spicy comedy casserole or as Dave describes it “a sort of Lexicon-carne . . .  sorry!”

Dave Spikey is a double British Comedy Award Winner. He played cabaret star Jerry St Clair in Phoenix Nights, which he co-wrote with Peter Kay and Neil Fitzmaurice and then went on to write two more comedy dramas, Dead Man Weds and Magnolia, before starring as team captain in 8 out of 10 Cats and then  hosting the new series of Bullseye.

Most recently he has been a regular presenter of the TV Book Club on Channel 4.

Official Website: www.davespikey.co.uk