Jamie MacDonald is a blind award winning stand-up comedian from Glasgow. He has written and performed seven critically acclaimed shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
In 2022 he won the 'Best Presenter' Grierson Award [1] for the BBC 2 documentary Blind Ambition. MacDonald has appeared on Live at the Apollo, [2] QI, Celebrity MasterChef and three times on Have I Got News for You. [3] He has written and performed two series of his radio 4 show Life on the Blink. [4]
MacDonald has the degenerative eye condition retinitis pigmentosa (RP). [5]