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Paddy Young: Hungry, Horny, Scared

Any show that feels funnier on the third viewing is worth recommending.
With Hungry, Horny, Scared, Scarborough boy Paddy Young has achieved that rarity.
He’s created an hour of pure, undistilled cheekiness and has the audience cackling
with the slightest raise of his eyebrow.

Young’s found success online with a collection of offbeat sketches made with fellow
comedian Ed Night. He refreshes some of those ideas for stage, and offers fun takes on
the dire state of the housing market, millennial hopelessness, and the north-south
divide. RH

Touring, 15 January-5 April (berksnest.com/paddy)

Comedy

Romesh Ranganathan: Hustle

The teacher-turned-stand-up comedian is a regular fixture on our screens and
speakers these days thanks to his role as host of The Weakest Link, his podcasts, and his
own show on BBC Radio 2. Now, he’s back on stage with a new live tour, in which he
makes a big promise – to dissect the human condition. Is hustling virtuous, or is it just
a way to keep us all working hard for no reason? Ranganathan may or may not have
the answers, but is sure to deliver on the laughs. RH

Touring from 20 January (romeshranganathan.co.uk)

24 January

Books

Empireworld by Sathnam Sanghera

Few non-fiction books manage to be conversation starters quite like Sathnam
Sanghera’s 2021 release Empireland was. The Sunday Times bestseller opened up a
dialogue around the imperial legacy in Britain, went on to be an award winner and
inspired a Channel 4 documentary (Empire State of Mind). Now, in Empireworld, the
journalist and author has turned his pen to tracing the impact that the British empire
has had across the world and what it actually means for the 2.6 billion people who live

in former British colonies. This globe-spanning, incisive and rigorous read is bound to
have the same impact as its predecessor. Anna Bonet

25 January (Viking, £20)