COMEDIAN Andy Parsons is bring his latest tour, Healing the Nation, to Taunton next month.

Two years since his last tour Peak Bullsh*t, Andy is confident that playing to a whole host of theatres across the UK will undoubtedly mend the myriad divisions this country faces.

He said: “It was 24th June 2016 and I found myself contemplating a supermarket meal deal. I only wanted a sandwich and I only needed a sandwich but given that I could get a snack and a drink for only 5p more it seemed financially irresponsible not to.

“I had spent so long pondering the EU Referendum result from the day before that I was now in a massive rush. The lad on the till scanned the first two items no problem but the third item, he couldn’t get to scan at all.

“I thought: this is going to be a nightmare – there was a queue building up and he looked like he was going to call the supervisor. Then, to his credit, he tried to scan it one more time. It wouldn’t scan – so he went ‘bip’ himself and chucked it through. And it was at that moment that I thought: “Oh, we’ll be alright as a country we will.

“And we will be alright. Trust me. I’m not a politician.”

Since being a writer on the legendary Spitting Image, Andy won the Time Out Comedy Award in 2002 and has performed stand-up all over the world. To date he has done five sell-out national tours and released the DVDs Britain’s Got Idiots, Gruntled, Slacktivist and Live & UnleashedBut Naturally Cautious.

He was also responsible for the Slacktivist Action Group podcast, which played host to a wide range of MPs, journalists and comedians.

He has been seen on Mock the Week, Live at the Apollo, Q.I., BBC’s Question Time, This Week, Newsnight and repeated on Dave.

Celebrate what it means to be British in 2020 – freedom of speech, tolerance, tolerance of freedom of speech, freedom of intolerant speech, less freedom with more intolerant speech, but still some tolerance.

Andy will be at The Brewhouse Theatre in Taunton on Sunday, March 29. To book visit thebrewhouse.net