16 Facts About Dominic Frisby

Dominic Frisby is a British comedian, author and voice actor, known both for his satirical songs and his commentary on finance and economics.

Dominic Frisby has written two feature documentaries on related subjects, Four Horsemen and Adam Smith: Father of the Fringe.

Dominic Frisby was educated at St Paul's School, Manchester University, where he studied Italian and drama, and the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.

Dominic Frisby began performing live stand-up in 1997 with a musical comedy act, the Upper-Class Rap, which he had originally tried to get released as a Christmas novelty single.

Dominic Frisby won the Ha Bloody Ha New Act of the Year competition in 1998 in a final that included Hal Cruttenden, Mickey Flanagan, and Rob Rouse.

Dominic Frisby followed the Upper-Class Rap with other character acts, including Alpine slap-dancer, Ludwig the Bavarian, farm hand Morris the Morris Dancer, and It guy Simon la Fontaine.

Dominic Frisby began compering in 2003, and became resident host at London' Downstairs at the King's Head in Crouch End, which he called his "favourite venue".

Dominic Frisby has written and performed in many shows at Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

In 2020, when Edinburgh Festival Fringe was closed because of Covid-19, Dominic Frisby shot Adam Smith: Father of the Fringe, a feature documentary based on his lecture the previous year, directed by Alex Webster, featuring comedians Jimmy Carr, Al Murray, Shazia Mirza, Henning Wehn and Arthur Smith.

In 2021, he became one of the presenters of GB News' comedy newspaper review programme Headliners, with Dominic Frisby co-presenting most of the nightly shows alongside BBC Radio 4 comedian Simon Evans.

Alongside his comedy, Dominic Frisby is an established financial writer focusing on gold, bitcoin, taxation, investments and economic history.

Dominic Frisby has been a regular MoneyWeek contributor since 2006, and has written for other publications, including The Guardian, Aeon, Capx, and the Telegraph.

Dominic Frisby has a prolific voiceover artist since 1993, having voiced numerous TV programmes, adverts, promos, cartoons and documentaries.

Dominic Frisby was pitch-side announcer at Fulham FC in 2004, briefly replacing David Hamilton, before Hamilton was reinstated.

Dominic Frisby resigned in 2020 due to family illness, shortly before his father, Terence Frisby's death.

Dominic Frisby created the website Perrier Bets in 2004 to take bets on who would win the Perrier Award at Edinburgh.