Sara Pascoe

Sara Pascoe regularly performs solo stand up shows to capacity crowds and has been voted one of Time Out Magazine’s ‘Rising Stars of Comedy’, A highly sought after writer, Sara is presently developing many of her own TV and radio projects.

Sara Pascoe is a British writer, stand-up comedian and actress. She has appeared in a number of television programmes - Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week, Have I Got News for You? QI, Room 101, Buzzcocks, 8 out of 10 Cats among others - as well as an all-female sketch show and her own Edinburgh show, and runs comedy club The House Of Mirth.

Nominated for best show at the 2014 Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Awards and winner of the 2014 Chortle Breakthrough Award, Sara Pascoe has been working as a comedy actor, sketch performer, improviser and writer since 2006, when she joined the Newsreue topical sketch show. She started stand-up in late 2007 and the following year was a runner-up in the Funny Women competition and placed third in the So You Think You're Funny? new act competition.

In 2009, she had a regular role in the Channel 4 sitcom Free Agents as the disrespectful assistant, Emma.

Sara regularly performs solo stand up shows to capacity crowds and has been voted one of Time Out Magazine's 'Rising Stars of Comedy', A highly sought after writer, Sara is presently developing many of her own TV and radio projects.

Sara's stand-up is influenced by her joint favourite heroes, Jodie Marsh and Winston Churchill.