Holly Walsh

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Holly Walsh
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Walsh in 2009
Birth nameHolly Dione Walsh
Born (1980-11-08) 8 November 1980 (age 44)
Guildford, England
Medium Stand-up, television
Education Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (BA)
Years active2006–present
Genres Alternative comedy, observational comedy
Subject(s) Politics, everyday life, British culture
Children2
Notable works and roles Mock the Week , 8 Out of 10 Cats , Never Mind the Buzzcocks , Question Team

Holly Dione Walsh [1] [2] (born 8 November 1980) is an English comedian and comedy writer.

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Early life

The daughter of an Anglican vicar, [3] Walsh attended Christ's Hospital School, before going on to study History of Art at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, which she described as "the most boring three years of my life". [4] After graduating she worked in various small art galleries in east London. [4]

Comedy

While working in galleries, Walsh attended comedy writing evening classes including Stand up and Deliver and as a direct result wrote for Jo Caulfield on BBC Radio 4. [4] In 2006, she switched to comedy full-time. [4] In 2007, Walsh was approached by Frank Skinner to appear in a TV pilot for Avalon Entertainment, Frank Skinner's Skateboarding Dog. [4] [5]

Walsh was runner-up in Amused Moose Laugh Off 2006 on the Edinburgh Fringe, appeared at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2007 and 2008, and appeared at Afterhours in between writing and filming, as well as co-hosting the AmusedMoose LaughOff 2009 with Jack Whitehall. [4] [5]

In 2009, Walsh wrote for and appeared on The Now Show on BBC Radio 4, appeared on Winging It on BBC Switch, and made videos for Current TV. [4] [5] Walsh is also an occasional contributor to comedy podcast Answer Me This! . [6] In January 2009, Walsh created a comedy film night called "Popcorn Comedy" with Jon Petrie (brother of CBBC's Ed Petrie). In the summer of 2009, Walsh was a co-host and writer of Channel 4's TNT Show.

In August 2011, Walsh was nominated for an Edinburgh Comedy Best Newcomer Award, in recognition of her first full hour-long show. She received critical acclaim for the show, which drew on her life since breaking her arm in the Worthing Birdman Competition in August 2010. [7] She has also appeared on So Wrong It's Right , a BBC Radio Four comedy presented by Charlie Brooker.

Walsh co-wrote Dead Boss with Sharon Horgan, a British sitcom set in Broadmarsh Prison, starring both Sharon Horgan and Jennifer Saunders. The show began airing on BBC Three in June 2012. [8]

She has appeared on TV shows, such as Edinburgh & Beyond on the Paramount Comedy Channel, The Late Edition , The Matt Lucas Awards , Mock the Week , QI , [9] and Would I Lie to You? . She has appeared on the radio comedy shows Out to Lunch on BBC Radio 2, Just a Minute , winning on her debut broadcast on 3 March 2014, The Unbelievable Truth and The News Quiz .

Walsh took a break from comedy after having a baby in 2015.[ citation needed ]

Other work

Walsh is a writer for the television series Motherland .

Walsh devised, co-wrote (with Pippa Brown) and directs the BBC comedy The Other One. In 2008 Walsh was a stand-in continuity presenter for CBBC and for its show All Over the Place . [4] [5] On 12 June 2009, Walsh was a guest panellist on 8 Out of 10 Cats , on 18 August 2009 appeared on You Have Been Watching , Newswipe with Charlie Brooker , and on 3 September on Mock the Week .

On 15 October, she also appeared on the third episode of the new series of Never Mind the Buzzcocks , on Noel Fielding's team. On 13 September she appeared on Phill Jupitus's team along with JLS.

On 15 August 2010, Walsh sustained a suspected dislocated shoulder and fractured arm after leaping from the pier during the annual Worthing International Birdman festival. [10] On 8 October 2010, she appeared on 8 Out of 10 Cats still with her arm in a sling, saying that she had 4 inches (100 mm) of metal in her arm.

Walsh appeared on Celebrity Mastermind on 30 December 2012, coming second to Ken Bruce. Her chosen subject was badgers.

Awards

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References

  1. ↑ England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916–2007
  2. ↑ "Holly Dione WALSH - Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House)". beta.companieshouse.gov.uk. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  3. ↑ Stephanie Merritt (April 2015). "Holly Walsh: 'Britain's the best place in the world to do comedy'". The Guardian.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Iqbal, Nosheen (17 March 2009). "Comedian profile: Holly Walsh". The Guardian . London. Retrieved 12 June 2009.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Holly Walsh". Artists. JBJ Management. Retrieved 12 June 2009.
  6. ↑ "Players". Answer Me This Podcast. 2 January 2007. Retrieved 12 June 2009.
  7. ↑ Hall, Julian (12 August 2011). "Kerry Godliman: Wonder Woman/Holly Walsh: Hollycopter, Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh (4/5, 4/5)". The Independent. London.
  8. ↑ "Dead Boss - BBC3 Sitcom". comedy.co.uk. 14 June 2012. Retrieved 14 June 2012.
  9. ↑ "QI - S14 - Episode 6: Night". Radio Times. Retrieved 2 June 2020.[ permanent dead link ]
  10. ↑ "CBBC presenter Holly Walsh hurt in Birdman competition". BBC News Online. 15 August 2010.
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