ECONOMIC idiocy, political and social upheaval at home and abroad, revolutions and the all-new Satiricax 3000 Radio will be on Andy Zaltzman’s mind at the Hyena Lounge Comedy Club in York on Sunday.

Some puns about dogs will be slipped in too, as he ponders the state of the world in Armchair Revolutionary, a tart cocktail of political satire, flamboyant analogies and outright lies in City Screen’s Basement bar from 7.30pm.

Zaltzman is on the road after plonking down his armchair at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe and London’s Soho Theatre.

Away from his live engagements, he teams up with John Oliver for The Bugle podcast, a weekly satirical comedy show that has gained several hundred thousand international listeners since its launch late in 2007.

They also co-wrote and starred in two BBC Radio 4 shows, The Department and Political Animal, and in 2009 Zaltzman had his own Radio 4 series, Andy Zaltzman’s History Of The Third Millennium (Series 1 of 100).

He is a regular panelist on BBC 5Live’s 7 Day Sunday and a writer and performer on Radio 4’s Tonight With Rory Bremner, having written for Channel 4’s Bremner, Bird & Fortune for several years.

His first book, a satirical take on the credit crunch, entitled Does Anything Eat Bankers?, was published in 2008.

Doors open on Sunday at 7pm. Tickets cost £10 on 0871 902 5726.