Charlie George

Charlie George is an award-winning stand-up comedian and writer.

A talented and accomplished writer, Charlie joined Charlie Brooker’s writers’ room for Cunk & Other Humans on 2019 and AntiViral Wipe (both for BBC Two), plus Death to 2020 for Netflix. She has written for Channel 4’s Alternative Election Night, Have I Got News For You, Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back,  8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, E4’s 8 Out of 10 Cats; BBC One’s Blankety Blank, BBC Two’s Frankie Boyle’s New World Order, BBC Three’s Juice CBBC’s Horrible Histories and BBC Radio 4’s Newsjack, Best Medicine and The Now Show. Charlie was selected out of 3,700 writers for the Penguin Write Now editorial programme to write her first autofiction book Door to Door.

A brilliant comedian, Charlie has guested on BBC2’s The Apprentice: You’re Fired, Comedy Central’s Rhod Gilbert’s Growing Pains, and ITV2’s The Stand Up Sketch Show. Her radio credits include: BBC Radio 4’s 20 Years of Funny Women, and podcasts, such as The Gargle, James Acaster’s Perfect Sounds and Drunk Women Solving Crime. Charlie hosted an Audible Originals podcast series exploring evidence based solutions to improving wellbeing and mental health with anthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota called Happiness… And How To Get It. 

As a stand up, Charlie has been nominated for multiple awards including the Leicester Comedy Festival Award for Best Debut Show 2023. She received runner up in the Funny Women Awards 2019 and won the Comedy Bloomer’s LGBTQ+ New Comedian of the Year Award 2019. Charlie established and co-hosted her own comedy night, Crack-Up Comedy Cabaret at The Glory in London in aid of Hackney mental health charity Core Arts. Charlie will make her hotly anticipated Edinburgh Fringe Debut this year with her show Burning Down the House.

Awards

Nominee: Leicester Comedy Festival Award for Best Debut Show 2023
Nominee: Chortle Awards for Best Newcomer 2020
Winner: Comedy Bloomer’s LGBTQ+ New Comedian of the Year 2019
Runner-up: So You Think You’re Funny? Awards 2019
Runner-up: Funny Women Awards 2019
Finalist: Leicester Square New Comedian Award 2018
Finalist: Pride’s Got Talent 2018

Credits

TV

• The Apprentice: You’re Fired (BBC2, Guest, 2024)
• The Stand Up Sketch Show (Guest, ITV2, 2023)
• Rhod Gilbert’s Growing Pains (Guest, Channel 4, 2021)

Writing

• Juice (BBC Three, 2023)
• Best Medicine (BBC Radio 4, 2023)
• Horrible Histories (CBBC, 2022)
• 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (Channel 4, 2022)
• The Emily Atack Show (ITV2, 2022)
• Death to… (Netflix, 2021)
• Have I Got News For You (Channel 4, 2021)
• Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back (Channel 4, 2021)
• Blankety Blank (BBC One, 2021)
• Yesterday, Today & The Day Before (Comedy Central, 2021)
• Death To 2020 (Netflix, 2020)
• Charlie Brooker’s Antiviral Wipe (BBC Two, 2020)
• Frankie Boyle’s New World Order (BBC Two, 2020)
• Hello America (Quibi, 2020)
• 8 Out Of 10 Cats (E4, 2020)
• Newsjack (BBC Radio 4, 2020)
• The Now Show (BBC Radio 4, 2020)
• ITV’s Original Voices (ITV, 2019)
• Cunk & Other Humans (BBC2, 2019)
• Longlisted: Thousand Films & Sid Gentle Writing Competition (2019)
• Lime Pictures Scripted Development Team (2019)

Radio & Podcasts

• Come to Daddy (Guest, 2023)
• 20 Years of Funny Women (Guest, BBC Radio 4, 2023)
• Neurodivergent Moments (Guest, 2023)
• Ayesha Hazarika’s Weekend Drive (Radio Guest, Times Radio, 2022-2023)
• The Gargle (Guest, 2022)
• Drunk Women Solving Crime (Guest, 2022)
• Dating Games (Guest, 2021)
• James Acaster’s Perfect Sounds (Guest, BBC, 2021)
• Queers Gone By (Guest, 2021)
• Happiness… And How To Get It (Co-Host, Audible, 2020-2021)
• Tea With Alice (Guest, 2020)
• The Bugle Presents… The Last Post (Guest, 2020)
• Global Pillage (Guest, 2019)
• BBC No Country for Young Women Live at the Edinburgh Festival (Performer, 2019)

Live

• Stand Up With Women (Performer, 2023)
• Best In Class (Stand-up Showcase, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2019)
• Crack-Up Comedy Cabaret (Creator & Co-Host – regular gig in London)
• Clandestina (Creator & Co-Host – Edinburgh Fringe 2022 & regular gig in London)

Digital

• BBC Asian Network Comedy Live (Performer, 2019)

Press

A personable and witty comic with a playful, naughty streak and an ear for a strong gag.
Steve Bennett, Chortle

Hilarious and no messin’.
BBC Asian Network Comedy

A pacy, energetic performance of engaging material liberally flecked with wry, savvy lines… It makes for a triumphant package.
Steve Bennett, Chortle

Charlie George and Jennie Falconer make you want to put them in your pocket and take them away with you. They are as warm and gooey as a treacle tart, but they will make you laugh like a hyena!
Diva Magazine (on Crack-Up Comedy Cabaret)