Relive the ‘90s! Relive the Word!
Award-Winning broadcaster, comedian and writer Terry Christian, celebrates the legendary TV show, The Word with a unique one-man comedy show.
With some rarely seen clips and a no-holds-barred Q&A, Terry hosts this stand-up performance that delves into the iconic and quintessentially ‘90s ground-breaking and hugely influential TV show.
Launched in August 1990 on Channel 4, The Word both revolutionised ‘youth TV’ and predated ‘reality TV’ by a decade. With its goal being to create something new and exciting, The Word pushed the conventional boundaries of broadcasting to court controversy and outrage the establishment.
Combining a diverse mix of cutting-edge bands like Nirvana, Oasis and Snoop Dogg, irreverent and anarchic interviews of A-lister guests including Whitney Houston, Dave Chappelle, Bill Hicks, Rikki Lake and Oliver Reed. Plus, stories from the margins of society, and downright bizarre and outrageous studio stunts, The Word soon became loved by its target audience and loathed by the press in equal measure.
Terry Christian was voted 2nd in Celebrity Big Brother in 2009, sharing household duties with the likes of Coolio, LaToya Jackson and Ulrika Johnson. He has appeared on many other TV comedy shows including 8 out of 10 Cats, Would I Lie to You, The Stayin in Show, You’ve Been Watching, Have I Got News For You, Room 101, Fantasy Football, The 11 O’Clock Show, The Late Late Show (RTE), The Panel Show (RTE) as well as being a regular panellist on the topical Channel 5 series The Wright Stuff and Jeremy Vine. He has also featured on BBC Radio 4’s Pick Of The Week, News Quiz, A Good Read, Joe Lycett’s It’s Not What You Know, With Great Pleasure , and also Great Lives where his subject was Mr Manchester the late Anthony H Wilson.
In fact, Terry has never really been off the TV since the crazy days of The Word.
More recently Terry appeared in The Great Christmas Bake Off, which was a Channel 4 40th anniversary special, broadcast on Christmas Eve 2022.
Celebrity Master Chef on BBC1 in August 2023 where he reached the Quarter finals
And was a recent winner of Celebrity Mastermind on BBC1
Not just your bog standard "An Audience with ..." it was genuinely funny and pretty true to the description of a "Stand Up Comedy Show".
I’ll be honest - I laughed more tonight than I did at the last comedy show I went to in Manc
There really is nothing on TV like the Word these days - it's all gone a bit safe hasn't it! (Altrincham HQ)
With clips from the show including Oasis, Nirvana, John Wayne Bobbit and the squirmy "I'd Do Anything To Get On TV" clip it took us back on a real nostalgia fix.
“Christian himself is a natural and fantastically self-deprecating stand-up. He has found a natural home on the stage – a welcome reinvention for him and a great evening of laughs for those in the audience.” (The Huffington Post)
“Easy to watch, intelligent and funny for that. A great night out.” (Yorkshire Times).
“This hilarious romp through the guilt ridden, and occasionally dark, realms of life is another brave step for Terry. He brings all the maverick qualities that made him a media bête noire in the 90s, via C4’s The Word, to deliver an honest, funny and sometimes profound stand-up performance.” (The Yorkshire Post)
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