Dylan Moran of Black Books will speak at the Convention Center

“Moran’s stand up is characterized by deeper thoughts than others offer,” wrote the British Guardian about a comedian’s show called Dr. Cosmos. Even the author himself could not describe what it was about, who only promised to try to offer “all the answers” to the problems that life throws at us.

The new stand-up from the workshop of the comedian, who the Czechia knows mainly thanks to the sitcom Black Books, is similarly existential. In it, Moran portrayed a down-to-earth bookseller, Bernard Black, who hates customers and would rather trade them for a bottle of wine, a pack of cigarettes and eternal peace. A few months ago, however, he reaped success with the new TV mini-series Stuck, which was broadcast by the British BBC 2, and which civilly tells about the vicissitudes experienced by people in a long-term relationship.

“Stuck has the tired realism of Moran’s performances, rather than resembling an eccentrically angry Bernard,” the editor evaluated the miniseries last fall guardian Lucy Mangan, “the realism, however, does not mean that Stuck is not painfully accurate and very funny, as anyone who has seen Moran mumble on stage will understand.”

The grunt expert takes his comic performances in an original way. He doesn’t try to get a laugh at any cost. He likes to philosophize, enjoys language and is not afraid of serious topics. In the current episode of We Got This, he deals with what it’s like to experience a divorce at the threshold of fifty. That is, when a man is so old that “his penis remembers landing on the moon.”

Dylan Moran will perform at the Prague Congress Center on April 4, 2023.