What he lacks in hair, Parsons more than makes up for in originality
The Telegraph
Andy Parsons is a comedian probably best known for his regular appearances on BBC2’s Mock The Week. Alongside host Dara O Briain and regular team captain Hugh Dennis. Andy has now featured in eleven series of the programme from series three in 2006 to series 14 in 2015. In total Andy has appeared in 116 episodes.
It was during his university days at Cambridge where he met his long term comedy partner Henry Naylor, where together they helped run the Footlights comedy society. It’s not widely known but Later Andy and Henry became principal writers on Spitting Image.
BBC Radio2 aired nine series of the comedy sketch programme ‘Parsons & Naylor’s Pullout Sections’.
Andy Parsons comedian is still a regular member of the Comedy Store’s Tuesday night ‘Cutting Edge’ team. He has also been a guest on Stephen Fry’s ‘QI’ and ‘They Think Its All Over’ with Lee Mack.
He has been appearing at the Edinburgh Festival with Henry and solo since 1993. Andy won the 2006 Montreal Comedy Festival ‘The Comedy Showdown’. He was selected for Talk of the Fest Showcase at the Montreal Comedy Festival 2006 and previous trophies are winner of the 2002 Time Out Best Comedy Award and the 2004 New Zealand Comedy Guild Best International Act.
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TESTIMONIALS:
‘Laugh out loud funny manages to be utterly likeable and very funny while being Mr. Angry at the state of the world.’
The Sunday Telegraph
‘Terrific satirical stand-up’
Independent on Sunday
‘What he lacks in hair, Parsons more than makes up for in originality’
The Telegraph
‘Perfectly calibrated. – the King of Political Comedy’
The Guardian
‘Inch-perfect comedy. With certain stand-ups, you can tell within seconds that they’re going to have the audience sitting up, purring in the palm of their hand. It is like this with the obscenely gifted Andy Parsons. Brilliantly lateral subversive observations on every topic of the day.’
The List
‘Parsons at the peak of his powers’
The Scotsman
‘Parsons is a master social and political voice’
The Herald
‘Delivers a barrage of beautifully crafted jokes – short, sharp shocks made so entertaining and agreeable that he could and should be transported immediately to mainstream TV’
Time Out
‘Andy Parsons can do no wrong’
The Stage
‘Parsons is somebody who could take any event in the last 25 years and have everyone within a three mile radius laughing’
Three Weeks