EXCLUSIVE: Keith Lemon star Leigh Francis on staying outrageously funny on debut UK tour

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Keith Lemon star Leigh Francis has been telling how it's still possible to be outrageously funny as he embarks on his first UK tour, My First Time. He reveals show details, how characters Keith Lemon and Avid Merrion will make star appearances, and he gives a sneak peek of his latest impression, of documentary star Louis Theroux. BUY TICKETS: For tickets, full tour venues, dates and more visit  www.gigsandtours.com and www.ticketmaster.co.uk

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00:00 Hello, my name is Liam Francis, you may know me as Keith Lemon. I've just been talking

00:04 to Graham Walker for Shots TV about my tour which begins on the 27th in Southend and finishes

00:11 here in Leeds on the 7th. There's three dates so I think you can still get tickets if you're

00:16 very lucky or posh and have enough money to buy tickets for a theatre because it's expensive

00:19 the theatre isn't it? I couldn't afford the theatre when I was a kid. You can check out

00:23 the full interview on Shots TV. This is probably too long.

00:28 Tell me about this tour, what can fans expect? If I was in a band it would be my best of

00:32 album so Keith Lemon's in there doing some sort of juice style games. Avid Merrian will

00:38 be stepping into a time portal from 2002 and landing in present time and will learn the

00:44 landscape of what you can and can't do has changed. We're in council culture now, people

00:49 will go 'oh you did this 20 years ago' you can only apologise for what you did.

00:55 Can you be outrageously funny anymore? I think you can, I think most comedians read

01:02 the room, you'd hope you read the room. The new masks that you've got, can you give

01:06 me any exclusives? I've heard of some goggle box and a Simon Cowell.

01:10 Potentially. It's almost as childish as you.

01:13 Hey you! It's giving me a giddy wink.

01:17 Don't dumb it. It's in there guys.

01:21 Are you really though? Welcome to Turkey!

01:25 Hello to you, it is me Avid Merrian. Have a face like a sweaty butthole.

01:29 Passas. Hello.

01:31 Hello!

01:32 I'll tell you what I have done this time round with people that I know, I've sent pictures

01:37 to them of the masks. I'm doing you in the tour and hopefully you get a lovely response.

01:41 I bumped into Louis Theroux and I showed him on my phone and I went 'look I've done you

01:46 as a mask'. Can we hear a little bit of him?

01:49 If you do it without the mask on, I don't think it works.

01:52 Are you really though?

01:53 Are you really?

01:54 Yeah, I can't. As soon as you put the mask on, it all happens.

02:02 Did you really though? Are you really though?

02:05 Sort of that vibe. It's the only line I can do as Louis Theroux.

02:09 Well, it's initial. That's all he says.

02:11 Is it really though?

02:13 (upbeat music)

02:15 (bells chiming)

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