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Olaf Falafel is a comedian and children's author. Falafel illustrates his own books and is the creator and presenter of Art Club, an online art channel for children. [1] He has been a stand-up comedian since 2012 [2] and is known for posting humorous videos on Twitter. [3] His humour frequently involves puns and absurdity. [4] [5]
Falafel worked as an art director before becoming a comedian. [6]
In 2014, he was nominated for the Laughing Horse Comedy Club's New Act of the Year competition. [7] In 2017 he was included in both The Guardian 's and The Telegraph 's rundowns of the funniest jokes of the Edinburgh Fringe. [8] [9] In 2018 Falafel was in Dave channel's, The Mirror 's, The Evening Standard 's, The Scotsman 's and i News's rundowns of the top jokes of the Edinburgh Fringe [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] and won an award for his festival poster. [15]
Falafel secured a three-book contract with HarperCollins in 2016, after asking for a publisher to approach him in a tweet. [6]
In 2019, Falafel made headlines by winning the Best Joke Of The Fringe. [16] He took the title with the gag: "I keep randomly shouting out 'Broccoli' and 'Cauliflower' – I think I might have florets".
In 2020, Falafel signed a two-book deal with Walker books to illustrate Unleash Your Creative Monster [17] a "funny and informative" guide to creative writing.
In 2021, off the back of his Art Club YouTube videos, [18] Falafel signed a two-book deal with Puffin to create his first middle grade chapter books called Trixie Pickle Art Avenger [19] about a child who becomes their school's version of Banksy.
In August 2022, Falafel had two jokes in the Best Joke of the Edinburgh Fringe Top Ten list.[ citation needed ]
In 2023 Falafel's picture book Blobfish won The Society Of Authors Queen's Knickers Award, [20] and the Federation of Children's Book Groups' Children's Book Award, [21] and was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Children's Writing on Nature and Conservation. [22]
In March 2024 Falafel won 'Best Kids Show' at the Leicester Comedy Festival, for his show 'Olaf Falafel's Stupidest Super Stupid Show (Yet)' [23]
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