I write comedy, mainly topical sketches and oneliners. I’ve done bits of script editing and script consulting. I like working with other people on funny ideas and always happy to hear about possible collaborations or new projects.

Here are my comedy credits.

DMs Are Open – Radio 4 Extra Comedy Show

• Series 1, Episode 5 (16 June 2022): Pronouns one-liner

Newsjack – Radio 4 Extra Topical Comedy Show

• Series 8, Episode 5 (14 March 2013): New York soda one-liner
• Series 8, Episode 6 (21 March 2013): Cancer advert sketch
• Series 9, Episode 4 (10 October 2013): Gambia Commonwealth sketch
• Series 9, Episode 5 (17 October 2013): Jay-Z and Yasser Arafat one-liners
• Series 13, Episode 5 (8 October 2015): Gun laws one-liner
• Series 14, Episode 6 (17 March 2016): Sports Direct sketch
• Series 16, Episode 4 (16 February 2017): Online dating conmen one-liner
• Series 18, Episode 1 (8 February 2018); Video Assistant Referee sketch
• Series 21, Episode 4 (3 October 2019); one-liners on Trump and red meat
• Series 22, Episode 1 (13 February 2020); one-liner on razors
• Series 22, Episode 5 (12 March 2020); condoms one-liner
• Series 22, Episode 6 (19 March 2020); Parkour one-liner
• Series 23, Episode 1 (24 September 2020); A reptile dysfunction oneliner
• Series 23, Episode 5 (22 October 2020); Asteroid oneliner
• Series 23, Episode 6 (29 October 2020); Blitz Spirit sketch
• Series 24, Episode 2 (4 March 2021): Volvo one-liner

Newsrevue – The World’s Longest-running Satire Show, performed 4 nights per week at Canal Cafe Theatre, London. New Director and cast take over for each 6 week run. Regular credits from 2014-2017 (full details below), then work and parenting took over for a while. Started submitting again and getting bits of material in the show in 2020, until lockdown. Have since had bits featured in the Newsrevue Podcast.

Newsrevue is a big, silly lots of fun show and I really like the way they’ve brought my sketches to life, even going along with some of my more ridicuous and hard-to-stage ideas (e.g. playing the reanimated corpse of The Reverend Ian Paisley, or two actors playing sausages in a fridge trying to Cumberland themselves into a ring).

Other

I have been a script reader for Sheffield Theatres (Autumn 2022), and script consultant on some season 2 episodes of the web-sitcom A Comedy of Gamers.

I regularly have sketches featured on the Write Funny segment on Sheffield Live’s Write Radio show.

I sometimes have things performed elsewhere too, such as the Sketch Please podcast (Episode 8. Job Inkterview sketch,Episode 10. Flatpack Stonehenge sketch,Episode 11. Netballers sketch) and Wingspan Comedy live show. I’ve also co-written a couple of short films and acted in one of them

• The Role That Ruined My Career (2014), co-writer and actor (playing the part of ‘The Director’).
• Self Catering (2017). Co-writer.

Newsrevue credits

(Oh I really should go back through the writers lists at some point to see what I had performed in 2020, 2019 and 2018).

2017

• Run 1: Tube Strike sketch (week 1, 2, 3), Rolf Harris the Octopus sketch (week 1)
• Run 2: Hitler Phone sketch (week 2)
• Run 4: David Davis sketch (week 4)

2016

• Run 1: From My Cold Gun Hands sketch (week 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), Tennis Corruption sketch (week 1, 2, 3), Our Tube Strike In The North sketch (week 3, 4, 5, 6)
• Run 2: From My Cold Gun Hands sketch (week 1, 2), Our Tube Strike In The North sketch (week 1, 2, 3, 5, 6), Maria Sharapova/Dick Pound sketch (week 2), Trump vs Jesus sketch (week 3, 4, 5, 6), Homeless Wedding sketch (week 4), Crimewatch for Dummies sketch (week 6)
• Run 3: Crimewatch for Dummies sketch (week 1, 2, 3, 4), Grand National of Football sketch (week 1, 2, 3), Polite Zones sketch (week 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), Boxing for Cancer sketch (week 3, 4, 5), No Sketching sketch (week 3, 4), Hopkins vs Sausage sketch (week 5)
• Run 4: Heavy Hearts sketch (week 6)
• Edinburgh Run: Northern Ireland Wedding sketch
• Run 5: Decent Proposal sketch (week 2, 3)
• Run 6: Saint Trump sketch (week 1, 2, 3, 4, 5), Finding Microplastics sketch (week 1, 2), Paralympics Reception sketch (week 1), Saracens High School sketch (week 3, 4, 5)
• Run 7: Grand Pricks sketch (week 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
• Xmas 2016: Theresa’s Trousers sketch (week 3, 4), Tube Strike sketch (week 6)

2015

• Run 1: Beagle 2 sketch (week 1)
• Run 4: Springwatch parody sketch (week 2, 3)
• Run 5: Lib Dem Conference Advert sketch (week 2, 3, 4); Sports Direct sketch (week 5)
• Run 7: Northern Ireland same sex wedding sketch (week 4, 5, 6); M&S leak gag (week 3, 5, 6)
• Xmas Run: Northern Ireland same sex wedding sketch (week 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

2014

• Run 3: I can’t Sell Enough Tickets gag (week 3); Dixons/Carphone Warehouse & Cilla Black retirement gags (week 5)
• Run 4: Nintendo and Google gags (week 1)
• Run 5: Cyber Security Exam Cheat sketch (weeks 3 & 4), Inadequate Food Labelling sketch (week 4), ISIS Clicktivist Sketch Parts 1&2 (weeks 4, 5, 6), Bake Off gag (week 6)
• Run 6: ISIS Clicktivist Sketch Parts 1&2 (week 1), Girl with Uzi gag (week 1)
• Run 7: Dawkins sketch (weeks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), McCann Troll Door-steppers sketch (week 1)