Comedy
Robin Ince: The Universe and the Neurodiverse
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The Universe and the Neurodiverse is a journey from the outermost planets to our innermost thoughts.
Robin Ince has spent 15 years hosting the multi award winning The Infinite Monkey Cage with Professor Brian Cox and been at the forefront of the renaissance in science communication. Always keen to explore new avenues of communication, he has also recently been exploring poetry and was officially given his Poetic License at the 2024 Morecambe Poetry Festival. Combining poetry, stories, jokes and music, this show explores what it is to be human and the incredible diversity of our minds. It is a show about Jane Goodall and chimpanzees, about Apollo 8 and the Earthrise image, about our environment, about climate change, about neurodiversity and it is about finding joy and inspiration. It is a show created to empower and activate.
It is both Robin’s most personal and most universal show and the tour will coincide with the publication of his latest book Normally Weird…Weirdly Normal (Pan Macmillan) and then his first poetry collection, Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth (flapjack) comes out in October 2025.
‘Joyfully entertaining. Full of warmth, wisdom and affectionate delight in the wonder and absurdity of being human’ – Observer on I’m a Joke and So Are You
‘A delightful and scintillating hymn to science’ – Professor Carlo Rovelli on The Importance of Being Interested
‘When someone writes a history of modern comedy, they should make room for Robin Ince’ – Time Out
‘An alchemic mix of enthusiasm, knowledge and observation’. – The Scotsman
‘Robin is like a piece of a Jenga puzzle – pull him out and a lot of things would collapse. Without Robin, comedy would be a very different shape and a generation is grateful’. – Stewart Lee
‘Robin has genuinely changed the conversation internationally, not just nationally, about science’ – Natalie Haynes
