Eric Rushton

Eric Rushton is an award-winning comedian, writer and actor.

Eric was the recipient of the first ever Channel 4 Sean Lock Award in 2023 and won Leicester Mercury Comedian Of The Year in 2020.

TV credits include ITV2’s The Stand Up Sketch Show and BBC3’s Such Brave Girls.

As well as performing, Eric is a talented writer and has written for The Last Leg, Late Night Lycett and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

Eric is currently on a sold-out tour with his latest show, The Real One, after a critically-acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Fringe. He is due to take his first show with Chambers, Innkeeper, to the Fringe in 2025.

Awards

Winner: Channel 4 Sean Lock Comedy Award 2023

Finalist: Leicester Comedy Festival Awards Best New Show 2023

Winner: Leicester Mercury Comedian Of The Year 2020

Finalist: Midlands Best Act 2018

Finalist: So You Think You’re Funny 2017

Finalist: Birmingham Breaking Talent Award Finalist 2017

Finalist: Chortle Student Comedian of the Year 2016

Finalist: Midlands Best New Act 2016

Credits

TV

• The Stand Up Sketch Show (Performer, ITV2, 2024)

TV – Acting

• Such Brave Girls (Supermarket Assistant, BBC3, 2025)
• Make That Movie (Non-TX Pilot, 2024)

Writing

• Late Night Lycett (Additional Material, 2024)
• Last Leg (Additional Material, 2023)
• 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (Writer’s Room, 2023)

Radio & Podcasts

• Always Be Comedy Podcast (Guest, 2025)
• My Time Capsule (Guest, 2024)
• The Monkey Barrel Comedy Chat Show (Guest, 2024)
• On The Mic (Guest, 2024)
• Hot Water’s Green Room Podcast (Guest, 2023)
• Pappy’s Flatshare (Guest, 2023)
• Another One Podcast (Guest, 2022)
• Jokes with Mark Simmons (Guest, 2021)
• The Staff Room Podcast (Guest, 2021)
• The Mrs Barbara Nice & Friends Podcast (Guest, 2020)
• The Brum Radio Comedy Show (Guest, 2020)

Live

• Innkeeper (Edinburgh Fringe, 2025)
• Real One (Edinburgh Fringe & National Tour, 2024-2025)
• Not That Deep (Edinburgh Fringe, 2023)
• I Had A Dream And You Were All In It (Edinburgh Fringe, 2022)

Press

“Innkeeper is an excellent hour of comedy. No wonder it sold out. A thinking man’s comedian with a gift for subverting standard tropes hilariously”

★★★★⯪ One4Review (On Innkeeper)

“A northern Napoleon Dynamite who is so nerdy he is cool. In his track suit and specs he looks like a lost member of Hot Chip. But when it comes to assured off-the-wall confessional comedy he is very much hot shit.”

★★★★ Beyond The Joke (On Innkeeper)

“there’s a dark emotional truth to his tightly written gags and lean, concise anecdotes”

★★★★ Fest Mag (On Innkeeper)

“[he] knocks-off grade-A punchlines with a shrug, basking in a superlative gag rate to conceal the dark heart of his story”

★★★★ The List (On Innkeeper)

“A little piece of magic”

★★★★ On The Mic (On Innkeeper)

“Deadpan, funny and relatable”

★★★★ Entertainment Now (On Innkeeper)

“with cheeky mannerisms and a delightfully satirical turn-of-phrase, he jests his way through some of the most absurd episodes of his recent past. As he takes off on his fanciful tales, his unfailing light-hearted wit will captivate you and have you doubling over in equal measure.”

★★★★ Entertainment Now (On Real One)

“Every generation needs joke writers like him – it’s one of the rarest and most precious disciplines to be able to work creatively within the one-liner format while still threading them into a coherent narrative.”

★★★★ Chortle (On Real One)

“while his persona is distinctly low status and self-deprecating he has deceptively impressive control over his audience.”

★★★★ Beyond The Joke (On Real One)

“a comedic brain which knows exactly which buttons to press and when.”

★★★★ The Skinny (On Real One)

“There’s far more invention and daring originality in Eric Rushton’s best routines than many of his more celebrated and high-profile peers approach in an hour…framed by his bespectacled, everyman appearance, working-class horizons and near-deadpan delivery, cracked with an endearing grin whenever a bit truly lands, he’s a veritable poet, reconstituting the mundane and commonplace with some truly audacious flights of fantasy.”

★★★★ Fest Mag (On Not That Deep)

“a master craftsman, with an arsenal of great one-liners and a particular skill with a pullback and reveal gag”

★★★★ The Scotsman (On I Had A Dream And You Were All In It)