Sarah Keyworth

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Sarah Keyworth
Born6 April 1993 (1993-04-06) (age 31)
Nottingham, England
OccupationComedian
Years active2012–present
Website sarahkeyworth.co.uk

Sarah Keyworth (born 6 April 1993) is an English stand-up comedian who began a career in comedy in 2012, eventually going full-time in 2018 after being nominated for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards. Keyworth has appeared on television comedy shows such as Roast Battle , The Now Show , The Dog Ate My Homework , Mock the Week and 8 Out of 10 Cats .

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Early life

Keyworth was born in Nottingham in 1993 [1] [ better source needed ] [2] [ better source needed ] [3] [ better source needed ] and used to create shows with their brother when they were children. [4]

Keyworth studied drama at De Montfort University in Leicester from 2011 to 2014 and was active in the university's comedy club, [5] [6] citing Jennifer Saunders as their favourite comedian. [7]

Keyworth later got a marketing internship at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and worked as a nanny. [8]

Career

Keyworth emerged as a runner-up at the 2015 Funny Women [9] and their first show, Dark Horse, was nominated for best newcomer at the 2018 Edinburgh Comedy Awards. [10]

They were named Newcomer of the Year at the 2019 Chortle Awards. [11] Their second show, Pacific, debuted in 2019. [12] [13] An exploration of gender and roles in relationships, Veronica Lee in The Arts Desk described it as a "nicely paced, sharply written and well delivered hour with some great gags". [14]

On TV and radio, Keyworth has appeared on Roast Battle , The Stand Up Sketch Show, The Now Show , The Dog Ate My Homework , Mock the Week, 8 Out of 10 Cats and Richard Osman's House of Games . [15] [ deprecated source ] In 2019 they performed at the Glastonbury Festival [4] [16] and later that year won the reality TV series Celebrity Coach Trip with friend Francis Boulle of Made in Chelsea [17]

Keyworth developed a third show titled Lil' Keys, Big Jokes; they were due to perform the show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe that year but the Covid-19 pandemic led to the cancellation of the show and almost the entire fringe. [4] [18] In the lockdown that followed the spread of the Covid-19 virus in the UK, Keyworth and Catherine Bohart hosted a weekly online comedy show, 'Gigless'. [19] Also in 2020, Keyworth created a four-part comedy series for BBC Radio 4, titled Are You a Boy or a Girl?, which explored gender fluidity. It was recorded with a virtual audience over Zoom, and broadcast in November. [20] [21]

In 2021, they appeared on BBC's Live at the Apollo [22] and in August 2022 Keyworth's third show, Lost Boy, debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe. [4]

Personal life

Keyworth lives in London. [23] They dated Irish comedian Catherine Bohart from 2015 to 2020, during which time they lived together in London's Kilburn area. [24] [25] [26] They are non-binary and use she/he/they/them pronouns. [4] [27] [28] [29]

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  2. ↑ Keyworth, Sarah (8 April 2016). "When your girlfriend has smashed the birthday present buying and you're late to lunch. #Birthday #23 #Lunchpic.twitter.com/5TAyaLl8Hn".
  3. ↑ Keyworth, Sarah (2 April 2015). "4 day weekend with my birthday on the Monday? Where's the gin boys?".
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