FRANK Skinner will perform at Bournemouth International Centre next month as part of his latest tour.

The comedy legend has extended his critically acclaimed stand-up tour show ’30 Years of Dirt’ with an additional 24 dates across the UK this autumn.

This tour extension comes straight off the back of a three-week run in the West End at London’s Gielgud Theatre in August.

Frank Skinner’s live career began in 1987 when he spent £400 of his last £435 booking a room at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Four years later in 1991 he returned to the city and beat fellow nominees Jack Dee and Eddie Izzard to take home comedy’s most prestigious prize, The Perrier Award.

Over the years, Skinner has toured several sold-out stand-up shows and achieved huge success in both radio and TV with ‘The Frank Skinner Show’, BBC1’s ‘Room 101’, and seven series of ‘Portrait/Landscape Artist of the Year’ for Sky Arts.

In 2023, he was appointed an MBE by the Princess Royal, Anne, for his services to entertainment.

With David Baddiel, Frank created and presented both ‘Fantasy Football’ and ‘Baddiel & Skinner Unplanned’, and along with the Lightning Seeds, the pair wrote and recorded the iconic football anthem “Three Lions”.

Local fans will get to hear all about his three decades in the business when he comes to the BIC on Saturday, October 5.

Tickets are £33.50 each and available to book now on the BIC website.