32 Facts About Jon Richardson

Jon Joel Richardson was born on 26 September 1982 and is an English comedian.

Jon Richardson is known for his appearances on 8 Out of 10 Cats and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and his work as co-host with Russell Howard on BBC 6 Music.

Jon Richardson is the presenter of Jon Richardson: Ultimate Worrier, and featured with his wife in the TV show Meet the Richardsons.

Jon Richardson left the University of Bristol after taking Hispanic Studies for a year and a half, and subsequently spent some time working as a chef.

Jon Richardson then decided to pursue a career in comedy, and lived with fellow comedians Russell Howard, Mark Olver and John Robins for a year in Bristol.

Jon Richardson entered and won his heat of the BBC New Talent Comedy Search in May 2003.

Jon Richardson reached the semi-finals of the Laughing Horse New Act of the Year competition in 2004.

Jon Richardson marked the end of his first year in comedy with a performance at the Criterion Theatre in London's West End.

In 2006, Jon Richardson appeared in The Comedy Zone at the Edinburgh Festival.

Jon Richardson completed a 60-date British and Irish tour with Alan Carr, and made an appearance on Paramount's The Comedy Store.

Jon Richardson won the 2008 Chortle Award for Best Breakthrough Act, and performed Dogmatic at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Jon Richardson later took this show around the country in his first solo tour.

Jon Richardson appeared as a team captain in Simon Mayo's 2008 series Act Your Age on BBC Radio 4.

Jon Richardson co-hosted a Sunday morning radio show on BBC Radio 6 Music with fellow comedian and friend Russell Howard, and after Howard left, he continued to present the show himself until 7 March 2010.

In early 2009, Jon Richardson's show This Guy at Night was nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Awards main prize.

Jon Richardson appeared on Have I Got News for You in December 2009 and October 2010, and was a guest on David Mitchell's The Bubble.

Jon Richardson appeared on the BBC Radio 5 Live show Fighting Talk in February 2010.

Jon Richardson was curator of The Museum of Curiosity for its third series.

Jon Richardson has performed at comedy festivals in Leeds, Guildford and Bristol, and has headlined university gigs for Off the Kerb and Avalon.

Jon Richardson has compered in the French Alps, headlined in Barcelona, and performed a one-man show in Greece.

Jon Richardson presented a 2012 documentary entitled A Little Bit OCD, in which he studied the lives of people diagnosed with OCD and worried that he might have the same condition; he was indeed revealed to exhibit symptoms of OCD, but did not show signs of the accompanying dysfunction.

On 19 November 2012, Jon Richardson released his first stand up DVD, Funny Magnet.

The DVD features Jon Richardson's set from Live at the Apollo and audio commentary with his housemate, comedian Matt Forde.

Jon Richardson began Work in Progress shows in late 2013, and in 2014 took his new show Nidiot on the road culminating in a DVD of the same name.

Jon Richardson claimed the initial smattering of applause quickly reduced through his time on stage.

Jon Richardson lived in Swindon for seven years, then in Surbiton, London, with fellow comedians Matt Forde and Danny Buckler.

Jon Richardson lived with comedians John Robins and Russell Howard.

Jon Richardson is a vegan and supporter of Leeds United.

In July 2019 Jon Richardson mentioned on BBC1's Saturday Kitchen Live that he had moved across to West Yorkshire, Calder Valley, from Lancashire.

Jon Richardson married comedian Lucy Beaumont in April 2015; the pair were introduced by mutual friend Roisin Conaty and dated for about two years prior to marriage.

Jon Richardson has explored whether he has OCD, concluding that he instead has obsessive-compulsive personality disorder; this was the subject of his Edinburgh Festival Fringe show Spatula Pad.

In 2018, Jon Richardson told Radio Times that he had been to counselling for six months, calling it "an immensely positive step".