Awards
• Nominee: Best TV Comedy Actor, British Comedy Awards, 2011
• Nominee: People’s Choice Award – King or Queen of Comedy, British Comedy Awards, 2011
• Nominee: Best Male Comedy Breakthrough Artist, British Comedy Awards 2010
• Nominee: Best Newcomer, Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2009
• Nominee: Chortle Best Newcomer 2008
• Finalist: Hackney Empire New Act 2008
As a successful and much sought-after stand up, actor, writer and presenter, Jack Whitehall has firmly established himself as one of the UK’s most exciting and successful new comedy talents.
He has recently completed filming on his own Channel 4 comedy series entitled Hit the Road, Jack which sees him performing stand up in cities across the UK. Each show is packed with celebrity guests, stand up, live music and larger than life local characters. The series is due to transmit early 2012. A talented actor, Jack received critical acclaim and a British Comedy Award nomination for his portrayal of former public schoolboy JP in the hit C4 comedy drama Fresh Meat. Jack will start filming for the second series of the show next year, along with the first series of Bad Education, a sitcom written by Jack and starring him as Alfie, the worst teacher ever to grace the British education system.
Jack has performed several sell-out solo stand up shows at the Fringe Festival garnering rave reviews from audiences and critics alike. In August 2009, Jack was nominated for the Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards (formerly Perrier) for his debut solo Fringe show, Nearly Rebellious. In 2010 he returned to Edinburgh with a brand new stand up show entitled Learning Difficulties. In 2011, Jack brought two shows to the Fringe, performing his solo stand up show Let’s Not Speak Of This Again at the EICC and, with his father, the chat show Back Chat. Jack recently completed a tour of Let’s Not Speak Of This Again, which will be filmed at the Hammersmith Apollo for his first live DVD, set to be released in Autumn 2012.
In July 2010 Jack performed at the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival as part of the prestigious New Faces line-up and was picked out by Hollywood industry bible Variety as one of their “10 Comics to Watch”. A nomination for the 2010 British Comedy Awards in the Best Male Comedy Breakthrough Artist category capped a truly incredible year for Jack which also saw him have the honour of performing for the Prince of Wales at the Royal Variety Performance and jetting off to New York to record a special for Comedy Central Presents. Jack recently returned to the U.S. to feature as a guest on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
Jack’s other recent television appearances include Have I Got News For You, Live at the Apollo and The Graham Norton Show.
Jack Whitehall
Television
• Hit the Road, Jack (writer/presenter/stand up) (C4, 2012)
• Live at the Apollo (stand up) (BBC1, 2010, 2011)
• Imagine: The Art of Stand-up (guest) (BBC1, 2011)
• Little Crackers (writer/actor) (Sky1, 2011)
• Million Pound Drop (guest) (C4, 2011)
• Fresh Meat (C4, 2011)
• King Of... (C4, 2011)
• Marriage Ref (ITV, 2011)
• Odd One In (ITV, 2011)
• Have I Got News For You (BBC1, 2011)
• Channel 4’s Comedy Gala (C4, 2010, 2011)
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2011)
• The Graham Norton Show (guest) (BBC1, 2010, 2011)
• Alan Carr: Chatty Man (C4, 2011)
• Comedy Central Presents (Comedy Central, 2011)
• Live at the Apollo (BBC1, 2010)
• Royal Variety Performance (BBC1, 2010)
• Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow (BBC1, 2010)
• Dave’s One Night Stand (writer/performer)(Dave, 2010)
• Stand Up For The Week (writer/performer) (Channel 4, 2010)
• Britain’s Got More Talent (ITV2, 2010)
• A Comedy Roast: Chris Tarrant (C4, 2010)
• A League of Their Own (guest) (Sky 1, 2010)
• 8 Out Of 10 Cats (guest) (Channel 4, 2008, 2009, 2010)
• Mock the Week (guest) (BBC 2, 2009, 2010)
• Never Mind the Buzzcocks (guest host) (BBC2, 2009)
• Argumental (guest) (Dave, 2009)
• You Have Been Watching (guest) (Channel 4, 2009)
• TNT Show (writer/presenter) (Channel 4, 2009)
• Would I Lie To You? (guest) (BBC1, 2009)
• Big Brother’s Big Quiz (guest) (Channel 4 and E4, 2009)
• Shockwave NME Awards (writer/presenter-backstage coverage) (C4, 2009)
• Celebrity Big Brother’s Big Mouth (writer/presenter) (E4, 2009)
• The Sunday Night Project (guest) (Channel 4, 2008)
• Soccer AM (guest) (Sky Sports, 2008)
• Celebrity Juice (guest) (ITV2, 2008)
• Tonightly Show (writer/performer) (Channel 4, 2008)
• Edinburgh and Beyond (guest stand up) (Paramount Comedy, 2008)
• Ruddy Hell! It’s Harry and Paul (BBC, 2008)
• Big Brother’s Big Mouth (writer/presenter) (E4, 2008)
• Jesus Boy and the Goatherd (writer/performer) (E4 “Funny Cuts”, 2008)
• Beehive (BBC3, 2008)
• The World Stands Up (guest stand up) (Paramount Comedy, 2008)
Live
• Jack Whitehall: Let’s Not Speak Of This Again (Edinburgh Fringe Festival and UK Tour, 2011)
• Jack Whitehall: Learning Difficulties (Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2010)
• Jack Whitehall: Nearly Rebellious (Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2009)
• Support for Mat Horne and James Corden mini UK tour: Is This Funny? (2008)
• The Comedy Reserve (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2007)
This hip, young star is rising so fast he is in danger of getting the bends
Evening Standard
Impressively slick for such a young act, his continued ascent seems assured.
Chortle
A rising star…The new funniest kid on the block
He oozes charisma from the moment he walks onstage and delivers sure-fire punchlines time after time.
Time Out
A new face who is set to become a star
Mirror
Inventive, well-written routines…A brilliant command of the language, able to conjure up just the right image at
the right time
Chortle
Sickeningly young wunderkind
Time Out
A rising star
Telegraph
As polished and watchable as ever . . .a pleasant mix of confidence and modesty
Chortle
There's no way this scamp should be as good as he is. He's been hugely hyped but has the talent and jokes to
back it up
Time Out
On 2010 Edinburgh Fringe show Learning Difficulties
A highly entertaining show from a brilliant young comic
Edinburgh Evening News *****
Lots of fine gags delivered effortlessly
Time Out ****
He’ll soon be graduating with first class comedy honours
Metro ****
Enjoyably silly
The Telegraph ****
Hugely entertaining routines from a comic who seems born to be on stage
Chortle
On 2009 Edinburgh Comedy Best Newcomer Award nominated show Nearly Rebellious
Never less than likeable and entertaining…quality comedy stuff
Scotsman ****
A wonderfully enjoyable hour of comedy
Telegraph ****
Incredible
Herald ****
Slick, almost clinically professional and so zeitgeisty it hurts...groomed for inevitable stardom
Scotland on Sunday
Highly accomplished stand up debut
Observer
You can't help but be bowled over by the sheer speed at which the punchlines come
Edinburgh Evening News
He’s going places
Telegraph
Almost too young and talented
Telegraph
A new comer with the poise of an old timer
Herald
A five star act
Scotsman
One to watch right now
Metro
A stand up machine
Guardian
