1. John-Luke Roberts is a British stand-up comedian, writer, actor and performer.
21 Facts About John-Luke Roberts
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John-Luke Roberts was named as one of the 50 funniest comedians of the 21st century in The Daily Telegraph in August 2023.
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John-Luke Roberts has had jokes nominated in the best and worst lists at the Edinburgh festival.
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John-Luke Roberts studied at the University of Cambridge where he was a member of the comedy society.
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John-Luke Roberts took part in So You Think You're Funny, and in 2005 was a finalist in the BBC New Comedy Award.
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John-Luke Roberts founded The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society which he cohosted with Thom Tuck at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and which has had residencies at the Soho Theatre, The New Red Lion, and The Bill Murray.
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John-Luke Roberts has written for Have I Got News For You, Newzoids and Never Mind the Buzzcocks for the BBC TV as well as The News Quiz, Dilemma and Newsjack for BBC Radio 4.
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John-Luke Roberts voiced the computer in Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully.
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John-Luke Roberts co-wrote The Goodies revival episode with Gareth Gwynn, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Barnaby Eaton-Jones, which was available through Audible in 2019.
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John-Luke Roberts wrote and appeared in the short film Asparagus Tips which included appearances by Cariad Lloyd and Margaret Cabourn-Smith and won Best Horror film at the 2019 Munich indie film festival.
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John-Luke Roberts presented a documentary on the 1996 novel Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace for BBC Radio 4, as part of the second series of the Exploding Library series, which first aired in December 2022.
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John-Luke Roberts is the host of the podcast Sound Heap, which he co-created with producer Ed Morrish, it won the BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Sketch Comedy in 2022.
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John-Luke Roberts has been a guest on The Comedian's Comedian with Stuart Goldsmith.
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John-Luke Roberts has guested on the Josie Long presented Radio 4 series Short Cuts, and Benjamin Partridge comedy series Beef And Dairy Network Podcast.
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John-Luke Roberts has created absurdist plays Terrible Wonderful Adaptations with fellow comedians such as Mark Watson and Kieran Hodgson, performed at the Edinburgh Festival.
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John-Luke Roberts has written and performed plays and sketches with Nadia Kamil under the name 'The Behemoth'.
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John-Luke Roberts has directed live comedy, including Josh Glanc's Vroom Vroom which ran in London and the Melbourne Comedy Festival in 2022, and the 2023 Be Well tour show of Myra DuBois.
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John-Luke Roberts performed as Al in physical theatre company Spymonkey's production Hairy.
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John-Luke Roberts created the show Clownts, a competitive clown show, with Viggo Venn, Julia Masli and Sami Abu Wardeh.
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John-Luke Roberts created the show Cabaret Impedimenta with Harry Haddon and Kasia Fudakowski of The Art of the Palliative Turn in which cabaret acts have to try and perform their numbers, while a growing number of impediments try to make it impossible for them to do so.