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Welsh comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean has performed for several consecutive at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and has won half a dozen Chortle Awards. Her writing and directing credits include being one fifth of the sketch group Tarot and directing a monologue for The Old Vic starring Susan Wokoma.

She has performed at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Greenman Festival, Leeds Festival, and Latitude Festival.

She is a familiar face on our TV screens, appearing on QI, Have I Got News For You, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Frankie Boyle’s New World Order, Blankety Blank, Would I Lie To You, Hypothetical, Pointless Celebrities, and The Russell Howard Hour.

She is also a regular on the radio with her own specialist comedy show for BBC Radio Wales. She has also presented Newsjack, Loose Ends, and The News Quiz, and is the host of the panel show Best Medicine. This radio 4 panel show takes the very best scientists, doctors, historians, and comedians, and asks them, “What is the best medicine?” The show was nominated for Best Comedy Panel Show at the British Comedy Awards and was nominated for an Aria in its first series.

During lockdown, Kiri hosted Live From the Covid Arms, an online comedy gig that was sighted as a Cultural Highlight of 2020 by The Telegraph. It was also recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s largest online pub and together they raised over £150,000 for food banks.

Kiki is involved in several popular podcasts, including:

All Killa No Filla: A podcast about serial killers that she co-hosts with Rachel Fairburn. The podcast’s live adaptation sold out The Leicester Square Theatre in minutes and toured the United States.

Who Are You Wearing: A long-form interview podcast about fashion where Kiri chats to activists, comedians, celebrities, and designers about fashion. Guests have included Poorna Bell, Desiree Burch, Giovanna Fletcher, Siobhán McSweeney, Michelle McManus, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, Jo Brand, Suzi Ruffell, Susan Calman, Tom Allen, Lolly Adefope, and Sindhu Vee.

The Pod of Wales: Co-hosted with Esyllt Sears, this is a comedy travel podcast where they become tourists in their own country.

 

Kiri has been nominated for and won a plethora of industry awards, including:

– Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2014 For Best Newcomer: Nominee
– Amused Moose Laugh Off 2014: Finalist
– London Sketchfest Awards 2015 for Best New Sketch Act: Winner
– Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2015: Finalist
– Chortle Award 2015 for Best Newcomer: Winner
– Chortle Award for Best Compere: Nominee 2016
– Chortle Award for Best Compere: Winner 2018, 2019, 2024
– Chortle Award for Best Club Comedian: Winner 2018, 2024
– Chortle Award 2019 for Breakthrough Act: Winner

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