Andy Parsons

WINNER 2002 Time Out BEST COMEDY Award.

"Andy Parsons is not getting the attention he deserves. He's hit a really beautiful vein in the last year. Lovely to watch." Daily Telegraph

"Parsons is on cracking form." Sunday Times

"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. Give this man a bigger room." ***** The List

"I've felt respected - at last, a comedian who assumes his audience reads newspapers. Bullet-headed and buzzsaw-vowelled, Parsons delivers every line in the tones of an exasperated klaxon. But it is a klaxon sounding ruthless common sense. Very funny”. **** The Guardian

"One of the few comics to have made me blow snot into my pie! A must see." Time Out

"Reduced the audience to helpless tears of laughter" Sunday Times

"A comedy demi-god… he's very funny indeed" Evening Standard

"The live on-stage comic joys of Andy Parsons are manifold. Gaze upon him and you will be unable to resist chuckling in a swoonsome manner. He is strangely reminiscent of both Laurel & Hardy simultaneously" - The Herald

His credits include:

RADIO

PARSONS & NAYLOR'S PULLOUT SECTIONS Radio 2 - 6 Series

STAND-UP SHOW - Series 1 & 2 Radio 4 - Writer/Performer

HOLD THE BACK PAGE Radio 5 - Team Captain

STRAIGHT UP Radio 5 - Presenter (52 Episodes)

THE MOTION SHOW Radio 4 – Guest

HAIR IN THE GATE Writer, Radio 4 Sitcom

TELEVISION

THE LIVE FLOOR SHOW - BBC2 Performer

THEY THINK IT'S ALL OVER - BBC TV Guest

THE COMEDY STORE SERIES - C5 (Series 3 & 4) Writer/Performer

THE STAND-UP SHOW - BBC1 (x 4 series) Writer/Performer

THE BIG STAGE - C5 Writer/Performer

LIVE AT JONGLEURS - C5 (Series 3 & 4) Writer/Performer

FOOD FIGHT - C5 Host

HOLDING THE BABY - Granada Writer

ASYLUM - The Paramount Channel Performer

THE LENNY HENRY SHOW Writer/Performer

SATURDAY LIVE - ITV Writer/Performer

THE COMEDY CLUB Writer/Performer

SMITH & JONES - BBC Writer/Performer

GIGO - Tiger TV for Channel 4 Writer

MURDER MOST HORRID Performer

SPITTING IMAGE - Central Writer

THEATRE

ANDY PARSONS/PARSONS & NAYLOR

New Zealand Laugh Fest '03

Melbourne Int Comedy Fest. '98.

Adelaide Int Comedy Fest '98.

Sydney Int Comedy Fest '98 & '99.

TBA, The Gate Theatre Created/Wrote '93, '94

MTV MUSIC AWARDS 1995 Main Writer

EDINBURGH FESTIVAL

ANDY PARSONS '03

ANDY PARSONS: LOCAL BOROUGH PEST EXTERMINATOR '01

ANDY PARSONS: IDIOT SAVANT '00

ANDY PARSONS '98 PARSONS & NAYLOR '93, '94, '95, '96,'97,'99,'01

Andy is a headliner at The Comedy Store, where he has become the leading member of the Cutting Edge team.