Rich Wilson

Main photo by Jenny Ellen @magpie.eye.weddings

About Rich.

Welcome to multi award-winning comedian Rich Wilson’s website.

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His “tour de force” (Leicester Mercury) performances have earned him a win for Best International Guest at the 2016 New Zealand Comedy Awards, followed by a sell out run in 2017 which saw him nominated for the same award again. He's performed at sellout shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, Melbourne Comedy Festival and the New Zealand Comedy Festival. An extremely in demand writer, Rich Wilson has also contributed on shows for BBC Three, Sky Arts and Channel 4. 

Rich was nominated for Best Show at the Leicester Comedy Festival 2024 and Best MC at the 2023 Chortle awards.

Rich is also the host of the wildly popular insane in the: podcast series. Rich talks to funny and interesting people about their experiences with mental health. In the last year the podcast has been nominated for an award with Podbible and in 2019 won an award with JOE for best podcast with the likes of; Guilty Feminist, Off Menu and Films To Be Buried With.

Rich is also the co-host alongside Rachael “Wellsy” Wells of the hugely popular new podcast But Please Don’t Panic! which is all about their shared love B-Movies.

Guests have included; James Acaster, Scroobius Pip, Heston Blumenthal, GBBO’s Tom Allen, Romesh Ranganathan, David Baddiel, Jen Brister, Simon Evans, Dane Baptiste, Darren Harriott and many more. 

Other people think he’s funny.

“One of the absolute best”

Joe Wilkinson

‘Wilson knows how to deliver.”

Chortle

“Always fantastic!!”

Omid Djalli

★★★★

'A hilarious hour of pure stand-up.'

I Talk Telly

“A very very funny man”

Frank Skinner

★★★★

‘Incredibly personal...a real touch of class.’

Ed Fest Mag

★★★★

Female First

 
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Rich performs all over the place doing his stand up.

He’s actually pretty funny.
You know, for a guy who looks like a retired boxing coach dressed as a mod. He’s come out with such wondrous lines as “Narwhal Tusk sounds like a character from Monty Python.”

Parenting Hell Podcast.

Rich Wilson also appeared on Season 4, EP38 of the award winning, arena selling podcast

With award winning Jordan Gray https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/with-rich-wilson-richard-herring/id1650824865?i=1000585722669

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