Heath Franklin’s Chopper in Harden the F**K Up, NZ

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Heath Franklin’s Chopper in Harden the F**K Up, New Zealand!

"Australia’s funniest comedy character..." ***** Sunday Mail

He's back! BY ‘CHOPULAR’ DEMAND!

As seen on TV's 7 Days, NZ Comedy Festival Gala’s and The Ronnie Johns Half Hour, Australian comedian and actor Heath Franklin* brings his award-winning comedy alter ego, Chopper, back to NZ for an 8-city tour this October/November.

After selling over 130,000 tickets in Australia, NZ and the UK, Chopper takes no prisoners as he headbutts his way across the Tasman for a return tour of his 2009 smash shit, Harden the F**k Up, New Zealand!, this time with a lot more mongrel and a sh*tload more moustache.

He will be touring to Auckland, Blenheim, Christchurch, Hawke’s Bay, New Plymouth, Palmerston North, Tauranga and Wellington in his biggest NZ tour to date.

The world’s gone soft since the ANZACs first stood on the beaches of Gallipoli. Global financial crisis, climate change...sometimes life seems a bit tough, and you just feel like finding a quiet corner and having a cry. Well its times like these that Chopper thinks you should take off your skirt, grow a moustache and harden the f**k up.

New Zealand needs a new kind of motivational speaker, a new life coach for a new age. Its time Chopper showed you how to walk around with the confidence of a man with a loaded shotgun down his pants and stick of dynamite in his bum pocket. From the rugby World Cup to hands-free mobiles, mangoes, Switzerland, to anti-smoking ads, even Darth Vader gets a punch in the soft guts by the International Ambassador of Hard

So, if you didn’t catch Chopper last time, or went out for a whizz and missed a bit, this is your chance to catch one of the world’s funniest comics, live and in stabbing
distance.

TICKETS ON SALE AUG 23

*Heath Franklin can also be currently seen in cinemas in the NZ feature film Predicament

DATES AND VENUES

Tauranga
Wed Oct 27, 7 30pm
Baycourt Community and Arts Centre
Tickets: $38.90/$34.90 (Service fees may apply)
Bookings: www.ticketdirect.co.nz or 0800 4 TICKET or 07 577 7188

New Plymouth
Thurs Oct 28 , 7 30pm
TSB Theatre Showplace
Tickets: $38.90/$34.90 (Service fees may apply)
Bookings www.ticketmaster.co.nz or 0800 111 999

Hawke’s Bay
Fri Oct 29, 7 30 pm
Hawke's Bay Opera House
Tickets: $38.90/$34.90 (Service fees may apply)
Bookings: www.ticketdirect.co.nz or 0800 4 TICKET or 06 871 5282

Wellington
Sat Oct 30, 7 30pm
The Opera House
Tickets: $38.90/$34.90 (Service fees may apply)
Bookings: www.ticketek.co.nz or 0800 842 538

Blenheim
Tues Nov 2, 7 30pm
The Marlborough Civic Theatre
Tickets: $38.90/$34.90 (Service fees may apply)
Bookings: www.ticketdirect.co.nz or 0800 4 TICKET or 03 520 8560

Christchurch
Wed Nov 3, 7 30pm
James Hay Theatre
Tickets: $38.90/$34.90 (Service fees may apply)
Booking: www.ticketek.co.nz or 0800 842 538

Palmerston North
Thurs Nov 4, 7 30pm
The Regent on Broadway
Tickets: $38.90/$34.90 (Service fees may apply)
Booking: www.ticketek.co.nz or 0800 4 TICKET

Auckland
Fri and Sat Nov 5/6, 7 30pm
SkyCity Theatre
Tickets: $38.90/$34.90 (Service fees may apply)
Booking: www.ticketek.co.nz or 0800 842 538

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