Episode 2 of See No Eagle is now up on BBC Sounds. Featuring a formative sex education lesson courtesy of French shortwave radio, and we try a bit of meditation with a twist.

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Episode 1 of my BBC Radio 4 comedy series is now up on Bbc Sounds. You can also subscribe to the show, which would be useful for me, because then it might hoodwink the BBC into thinking I’m popular and give me a second series.
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This December I return to Radio 4 for my own comedy series, Eagle On The Air.
I’m recording it in Sheffield on 30th September and 1st October. If you fancy coming along to one of them, you’d be very welcome — especially if you have a loud laugh.
If you want to hear yourself on the radio, you could laugh in a really noticeable, idiosyncratic manner, or sneak in a little sneeze, cough, belch or fart, and then gleefully inform your friends and family that you’ve featured in a BBC Radio 4 comedy show.
Tickets are free but you have to book them in advance, which you can do here.

On Thursday September 25^th I’m at the Laurels in Whitley Bay. Join me as I jostle with a multitude of ideas for an upcoming radio series. Includes French lesbians, a talking teddy, an errant accordion, Daleks, militant Morris dancers, a song from me at seven about my mate who pissed himself in the street, and of course some Princess Margaret themed erotica.

Tickets are, as you might expect, £5 and available here.

Banbury friends: Come to my free gig on the 10th July and help me decide what stays and what goes for an upcoming radio series.

Based on where I am with it now, it’ll almost certainly involve me banging on about being blind (still milking that), getting the accordion out (because I know how to whip a crowd into a frenzy), and singing a few silly songs – possibly one about a misunderstood pigeon. I might tell you about my first ever gig at a Teddy Bears’ Picnic (aged five – I absolutely smashed it), talk a bit about meditation, Catholicism, and 1950s radio detectives; do some Dalek impressions; and recount the time I judged a children’s talent show and things got awkward.

I might even play you a recording of a song I wrote when I was seven about a boy in our street who pissed himself. Oh, and maybe there’ll be some Princess Margaret themed erotica, if I’m being especially hack.

My last show won multiple awards, so I was clearly pretty good at comedy in 2024. That
means it’s statistically likely this one will at least surpass mediocrity – maybe even approach adequacy!
If my scintillating sales pitch hasn’t quite sealed the deal, I should probably mention that I’ve done stand-up on Rosie Jones’s TV show, and made multiple appearances on BBC Radio 4 comedy programmes. And here are a few nice things that more successful comedians have said about me:
“David is brilliantly clever, musical, moral. Brilliant/nuts. Heartily recommend!” – Rufus
Hound
“My God, David Eagle makes me laugh. A ludicrously amusing gentleman.” – Miles Jupp
“David’s a unique and very funny comedian. This debut hour comes highly recommended.”
– Paul Sinha
“Just seen the future of stand-up comedy, and his name is David Eagle.” – Boothby
Graffoe

More details on the Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1295002068632913

On Saturday we (The Young’uns) appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Loose Ends with Stuart Maconie. We were on with singer songwriter Mychelle, comedian Sophie McCartney, Great British Sewing Bee’s Patrick Grant, and Jason Donovan (who I assume you all know of and so haven’t bothered to preface).

There wasn’t enough room for all the guests around the main table, so I volunteered to be the one positioned at the opposite side of the room to the other guests. However I was still very much encouraged to interject and join in with the show whenever the fancy took me. I didn’t say much because it’s not easy to know when to interrupt when you’re not sat next to the other guests. When you’re sat in close proximity to each other, what you say is perceived as conversational banter, whereas shouting out things from the other side of the room feels more like I’m heckling. Nevertheless I did throw in a few comments here and there, and some of them are audible; you’ll have to listen especially carefully if you want to hear them all.

I’ll tell a tale or two about the show in the next The David Eagle Podcast, but for now you can listen to our Loose Ends episode here.

This week we also made a brief appearance in BBC 2’s very moving documentary, Lockerbie: Our Story. Our song about Tim Burman, who was one of the 259 people onboard the plane, features in the program.

You can watch it here.

You can also watch our video, in which we talk to Tim’s sister Rachel about Tim and the song here.

The David Eagle Podcast returns with a bumper bunker-based Herbal Tea Of The Week, as we visit a tea house in Slovakia, situated in a bomb shelter. Six teas from six different countries go to war, but which one will be triumphant. Plus we talk about various recent stand up comedy gigs, including playing to a room of screaming, crying babies, performing for the military, and a surprisingly harrowing experience in Coleshill, Birmingham. And we conclude matters with a lovely little Slovakian soundscape. Enjoy, and we promise to be back a lot sooner than twenty-seven months.

A very quick update to simply mention that I have gigs coming up, including Sheffield, London, Banbury, Leamington Spa, Nottingham and Barton upon Humber. Since the last time I advertised my gigs to you I’ve done the show 24 times at the Edinburgh Fringe, won two awards and was nominated for Best Show, so if you book to see me you are pretty much guaranteed to have at least a fairly decent time; although, there is always the possibility that I might have an off-day, or that you are just a cantankerous sod who is never content. Book tickets now to avoid missing out and to help with my anxiety.

Book via my gigs page here.

The other news is that I’ve been on TV, on Rosie Jones’s Disability Comedy Extravaganza, so if you’re too lazy to get off your arse and come and see me gigging, you can at least watch me without leaving the house.

Here’s the link for that.

If you’re too lazy or disinterested to do either of those things, then it begs the question, why are you even reading this? Obviously I don’t expect an answer from you, being the lazy so-and-so that you are. Sorry, I’m not sure why I’m having a go at you. This probably isn’t the right way to get people to see you do comedy.

So to recap:

TV link here.

Gigs page here.

Thanks. Kiss kiss.

This August I’ll be at Edinburgh Fringe Festival for the entire run. That’s the first twenty-five days in August, but a note to any prospective burglars, my house in Sheffield will be occupied during that time by my wife who has been practising martial arts. Anyway, the show is called The Eagle Is Candid. Here’s the poster, the show blurb, and a link for you to buy tickets in advance of August, which helps minimise the chance of me having a mental breakdown, thanks.

Blind comedian and folk singer tells tales of his adventures travelling the world. Accosted by faith healers, aggressive Australians, and a near-arrest after a nocturnal accordion-based anti-social incident. The show also includes a couple of his comedy songs, one of which was described by the Guardian as “a comic tour de force”; and another one which wasn’t.

Best Variety Show, Leicester Comedy Festival. “Brilliant/nuts. Heartily recommend!” (Rufus Hound.)

A regular on BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show. Three-time winner at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Leicester square Theatre New Comedian Of The Year.

(Directed by Ben van Der Velde.)

Thursday 1st August – Sunday 25th August 2024 

21:30 Just The Tonic
David Eagle: The Eagle Is Candid, Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh  Tickets here

Back for my third appearance on BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show, doing stand up about Advent and adverts.

Listen here