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1899 comedians

Patrick Kielty

Patrick Kielty is a multifaceted entertainer, working as a comedian, presenter, and actor. Born on January 31, 1971, in Northern Ireland, he spent his formative years in the village of Dundrum, County Down. A significant event shaped his life: the murder of his father, John 'Jack' Kielty, in 1988 by the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF). His father was a businessman and involved in a libel action at the time of his death; three men received life sentences for the crime, later released in 2000. Kielty’s early life reveals a diverse range of interests. He participated in Gaelic football as a teenager, even serving as a substitute goalkeeper for the Down GAA minor football team from 1987 to 1989, contributing to their 1987 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship victory. While attending St Patrick's Grammar School, he began performing comedy, and later studied psychology at Queen’s University Belfast. In 1991, alongside Jackie Hamilton, he opened The Empire comedy club in Belfast, establishing himself as a key figure in Northern Ireland’s burgeoning comedy scene. He reached the final of a National Comedy Search on The Late Late Show in 1992 and subsequently presented SUS on UTV in 1993. Kielty’s career has encompassed television, film, radio, and live performance. He received the 'Best Newcomer' Award at the 1996 Royal Television Society Awards for PK Tonight , and co-founded the TV production company Green Inc in 1997. His television credits include shows like Patrick Kielty Almost Live and Last Chance Lottery . He has also appeared in documentaries, notably My Dad, The Peace Deal and Me , which earned a BAFTA nomination and a Grierson Award for UK documentary host of the year in 2018, and Patrick Kielty: 100 Years of Union , which won an RTS award for best presenter. Currently, he hosts The Late Late Show (since September 2023), a program recognized as Ireland's most popular and longest-running chat show globally. He also presents a Saturday morning programme on BBC Radio 5 Live and starred in the 2023 film Ballywalter , marking his feature film debut and sharing a lead role with Seána Kerslake. He is returning to the stage with additional dates of his Borderline stand-up tour in 2025, continuing his legacy as an award-winning comedian.

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Paul Foot

Paul Foot is an English comedian known for his reflective monologues, outspoken tirades, self‑styled “disturbances,” and an apparent disinterest in mainstream pop culture. The Daily Express once likened him to “a rare exotic bird,” and six national papers—including The Independent and The Age—have called him “a comedy genius.”

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Siobhan Redmond

Siobhan Redmond, a Scottish actress, has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has taken on a variety of roles across stage, audio, film and television, notably playing Anne Marie in Two Doors Down.

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Smug Roberts

Andy Robert Wilkinson, who works under the name Smug Roberts, is an English stand‑up comedian and actor. He was born in Harpurhey, Manchester, and went to North Manchester High School for Boys. His career has included a stint as a relief pub landlord, coaching a football team in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and for a period he ran his own sign‑writing business.

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Spencer Brown

Spencer Brown, a London native, works in England as a comedian, actor, director and writer. His comedic voice leans into the surreal, blending slapstick, absurdity and outright goofiness. He presently hosts The Sexy Ads Show on Fiver, which airs on Channel Five.

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Stephen Frost

Stephen Frederick Eustace Frost, an English actor and comic, is most widely recognized for appearing on Whose Line Is It Anyway? and for a number of joint ventures with fellow humorist Mark Arden.

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Stephen Park

Stephen Park, a UK artist who also works as a comic performer, had a brief involvement with the Young British Artists group during the late 1980s and early 1990s and took part in the landmark Freeze exhibition.

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Steve Edge

Steve Edge, an English performer who transitioned from stand‑up comedy to acting and writing, is best known for appearing in series like Starlings, Phoenix Nights, The Cup, The Visit, Peep Show, The Madame Blanc Mysteries, and the parody magazine programme Star Stories.

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Steve Furst

Steven Jonathan Furst, hailing from Northern Ireland, works as a comedian, actor and writer. He is a regular presence on TV, having been featured in the BBC comedy Little Britain, provides voice‑over performances, and portrayed a parody studio executive in the United Kingdom’s Orange mobile‑phone cinema commercials. He also appears on stage under the cabaret persona Lenny Beige.

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Steve Marsh

Stephen “Steve” Marsh, a British actor, once co‑hosted the CBeebies series Big Cook, Little Cook and later presented Space Hoppers. In the former programme he took on the role of Ben, the big cook. Alongside his former co‑presenter Dan Wright he forms the comedy partnership Electric Forecast. Marsh also featured in Wright’s documentary F*** Off, I’m Ginger and appeared as himself on Sky One’s 2007 series Crash Test Dummies.

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Stewart Lee

Stewart Lee is a comedian born on April 5, 1968, in Wellington, Shropshire. He experienced an early family change when his adoptive parents separated when he was only four years old; he was raised in Solihull, West Midlands. During his teenage years, Lee benefited from a scholarship, known as a 'waifs and strays bursary', which enabled him to attend Solihull School, where he also joined the mountain-walking club. In 1989, Lee received an upper second class degree in English from the University of Oxford. While a teenager, he also dealt with ulcerative colitis, a condition that continues to present challenges. Starting in 1989, Lee launched his professional career by forming a comedy partnership with Richard Herring, known as Lee and Herring. They quickly gained recognition, winning the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year competition in 1990. The duo provided content for BBC Radio 4’s *On the Hour* in 1991. Following this, they developed *Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World* (1992-1993) and produced three series of *Lee and Herring* for BBC Radio 1 (1993-1995). Beyond radio, Lee’s work includes co-writing and co-directing the West End musical *Jerry Springer: The Opera* in 2001, as well as publishing his debut novel, *The Perfect Fool*, also in 2001. He has also collaborated with other comedians, including Richard Herring and Frankie Boyle. Stewart Lee’s comedy style has been described as BAFTA award-winning, and he is now approaching sixty years old. According to *The Times*, Lee is 'the world’s greatest living stand-up comedian'. He has received British Comedy Awards in 2011 for Best Male Television Comic and Best Comedy Entertainment Programme. Despite a diminished TV profile in recent times, he continues to tour, with dates scheduled for 2026, and a 2023/24 tour show was filmed in April 2024. His work Snowflake & Tornado is available to download, and he maintains a weekly column for THE NERVE . He expresses concern about the current comedy landscape, specifically referencing challenges from “callous Netflix-endorsed comedy of anger,” and has been compared to figures such as Dave Chappelle, Ricky Gervais, and Jordan Peterson.

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Sue Perkins

Susan Elizabeth Perkins, known professionally as Sue Perkins, was born in England on September 22, 1969; she is a comedian, broadcaster, presenter, actress, and writer. Raised in Croydon, London, Sue Perkins had two younger brothers, David Perkins, and received her education at Croham Hurst School, a private girls' school located close to her family home. Her father worked for a car dealership and her mother was a secretary. Perkins’s path to comedy began at the University of Cambridge, where she studied English at New Hall (now Murray Edwards College), graduating in 1991. During her time at Croham Hurst School, Perkins participated in performing arts and held the position of president of the Cambridge Footlights drama group for the 1990-91 academic year. It was also at Cambridge that she met Mel Giedroyc, and they formed the comedy duo 'Mel and Sue' in 1997. The Cambridge Footlights started performing in the 1990s, and their performances included appearances on television programs such as French & Saunders. The pair hosted Channel 4’s Light Lunch and its evening version, Late Lunch , from 1997 to 1999. Their quick-fire and self-depreciating comedy style quickly gained popularity. Perkins and Giedroyc co-presented The Great British Bake Off from 2010 to 2016, becoming widely recognized as 'Bake-Off Sue'. She also co-presented the historical food series Supersizers with Giles Coren from 2007 to 2011. Throughout her career, Perkins has appeared on numerous comedy panel shows such as QI , Have I Got News for You , and The Last Leg . In 2008, she won the BBC programme Maestro and conducted the BBC Concert Orchestra at the Proms. She currently hosts BBC Radio 4’s Just a Minute since 2021. She has also presented travel documentaries, including 'Japan with Sue Perkins' and 'The Ganges with Sue Perkins', and has written books like Spectacles and East of Croydon . She was in a relationship with Anna Richardson from 2014 to 2021, and has spoken about living with a benign pituitary tumour.

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