Andy Parsons
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Contact damon@offthekerb.co.uk
Silver Dolphin Cannes Media Awards Winner / Best Film EVCOM Awards Winner / Time Out Comedy Award Winner / Montreal Just For Laughs Comedy Festival Award Winner / New Zealand International Comedy Award Winner
Best known for his role on the hit show Mock the Week, Andy started his career writing for Weekending and Smith and Jones. He went on to become one of the main writers on the groundbreaking Spitting Image. Andy has performed on numerous radio and TV shows including Live at the Apollo, QI, The Stand-Up Show, The Comedy Store and They Think It’s All Over to name a few. Andy also has a highly acclaimed political podcast, Slacktivist Action Group, recorded monthly at London’s Soho Theatre.
He has released four live DVD’s Britain’s Got Idiots (2009), Gruntled Live (2011), Slacktivist Live (2013), Live and Unleashed but Naturally Cautious (2015).
Andy will be on his new tour Bafflingly Optimistic from September 2023 and throughout 2024.
‘Cracking adlibbing... a joke-rich rallying call for a better Britain’
The Guardian
‘Potent live performer... can nail a nonsense with beautiful economy of words’
The Times
‘A consistently strong exposer of bullshit and a plain-speaking truth-teller through his entire career’
The Guardian
‘Brilliantly funny and insightful’
The Metro