COMPETITION: Win tickets to see Richard Herring live at St David’s Hall

After years of drifting aimlessly and alone, Richard Herring is now settled down with a wife and a tiny baby. Is he finally happy now? Or does responsibility for the lives of others come with its own terrors?

In his twelfth solo stand up show, Richard examines whether we are, can ever hope to be, or are meant to be, truly content. If we were never unhappy would happiness have any meaning? Why do our brains force us to envisage the worst possible outcomes even on a day when everything seems fine?

How likely is it that Richard’s baby will be skewered by a stalactite of frozen urine falling from a plane and is it really worth him wasting his time thinking about it? Does being happy mean a comedian loses his edge and true belly laughs only come from depression? How much pressure was there on Happy the dwarf to live up to his name? Is there any system that will guarantee us eternal bliss or should we just embrace the fact that life is a vale of tears and our only option is to laugh in its face?

Happy Now? is Richard’s twelfth stand-up tour in twelve years. The show premièred in September 2015 when Richard completed the mammoth task of performing each of his previous eleven consecutive stand-up shows over eleven evenings, before debuting Happy Now? on the final night.

We’ve got a pair of tickets to give away for Richard’s Happy Now? show that comes to St David’s Hall on Tuesday 12th April. The show will be filmed for his latest DVD.

All you need to do to win is answer this following question:

What is the name of Richard’s Herring’s 2016 UK tour?

a) Miserable Now
b) Happy Now
c) Angry Now

Send your answers to SDHpress@cardiff.gov.uk by Tuesday 5th April at the latest.