Daniel Kitson is frustrated and shocked at how people can find time to do crosswords, eat snacks and occasionally wash - instead of ranging and weeping against the world's injustices.

He wants them to take a more engaged, more humane and less snack-based approach to the planet's problems.

The Perrier award-winner is touring work in progress for his new show, the Impotent Fury Of The Privileged.

Billed as an "angry, frustrated and beautiful" new show, it addresses the sad state of a world filled with cruelty and woe and the lazy antipathy of the fortunate to do anything about it.

It may not sound ideal material for stand-up comedy, but the bearded comic has earned a reputation for surprising audiences in the past.

Reacting against his own reputation for talking honestly about his life, he staged 2003's A Made Up Story, 2005's Stories For The Wobbly Hearted and last year's quirky, whimsical storytelling show, C-90. which won an Argus Angel at the Brighton Festival. Now it seems the highly-rated comedian famed for his expletive-fuelled put-downs aimed at pesky hecklers is channelling his energies into putting the world to rights instead.

Daniel, who performed three secret shows at the Three and Ten, Steine Street, in Brighton earlier this year, will also be performing at the Theatre Royal, Brighton on Sunday, May 25.

Rumours abound that he will also appear at this year's Brighton Festival but as the stand-up is as famous for his refusal to grant Press interviews as he is for his surprise appearances, who knows whether this will bear fruit?

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