10/06/2026
Awkward Re-Entry sci-fi standup comedy, Thurs 23 July 7pm
Listen to writer Phillip Carter interview with .mr on our YouTube channel.
Awkward Re-entry is a comedy show about what it means to be human in our increasingly inhuman world. Simultaneously introspective and cosmic. Expect quantum fire alarms, hilarious theories about aliens, and a story about the most awkward one-night-stand in the known universe.
In an era when everyone seems to want to abandon authorship of their own lives and let ‘AI’ write for them, sliding dimly into sleepy reliance on unthinking machines, Phillip is instead boldly going where everyone else should probably be - he is writing this stuff himself, using his human brain.
Featured on Channel 4’s Lego Masters, Phillip Carter has been a geeky comedian from the start. His fiction features neurodiverse characters with a sense of humour navigating the enormity of the cosmos, and his real life as a comedian isn’t much different. If you ever want to ponder the nature of reality whilst laughing in a cocktail bar, Phillip is the comedian to watch.
Phillip’s debut book WHO BUILT THE HUMANS? has become something of a prop at his comedy nights. People don’t expect that a comedian would have the spare time to write a large doorstop into existence, but he has, and audiences are always pleased to discover the stories within are just as weird, just as dark, and just as hilarious and existential as his stand-up.
Photography by Craige Barker
