Patrick Monahan

'Manic physical comic' The Guardian

In the past 6 years since Patrcik started performing stand-up he has had a meteoric rise u the stand up comedy ladder. He has gone from open spot to headliner in an incredibly short length of time and is now a regular MC and headline stand up performer at the top London and UK comedy clubs including the prestigious Jongleurs circuit and the comedy store. In addition Patrick is now hugely in demand as a TV warm up comedian due to his loveability and clean funny material.

Patrick is also a regular now at the Edinburgh Festival where for the past 4 years he has presented solo 1 hour shows: 2004 he performed at the Gilded Balloon with his first solo show 'Game On' and 2005 he moved to Underbelly where he had a hit with his second solo show 'The road map to Peace'. His festival 2006 show was 'Do the Right Thing' and really established Patrick as a showman as well as comedian with a wonderful mix of stand-up and audience participation. This year (2007) he returned to the Underbelly to perform 'Feel the love' which not only included his signature audience interaction as well as stand up material fit for all ages.

With his hugely lovable and funny persona and his ability to think on his feet a television career is now firmly in Patrick's sights. Recently Patrick filmed the Armstrong & Miller Show for (Hat Trick for BBC) and performed a stunning stand-up set on Paramount Comedy Channel's The Comedy Store. He is a regular panellist on Sky Travel Channel on their quiz show Where in the World. In addition Patrick was asked to appear in BBC's Comedy Map of Britain (for the NE of England) and Mervyns Bragg's Travels in Written Britain (ITV) both of which are to be TXed. He also appeared in CBBC's Sorcerer's Apprentice where he gave a bunch of school kids lessons in stand up. This was TXed in july this year. Also earlier in the year he was on the sofa on CH4's Transmission from Newcastle.

Patrick is fast being known as having the ability to really work a room and work with an audience whilst (rare today) 'keeping it clean'. He is in great demand for TV studio audience warm up and is resident warm up for Friday Night with Jonathan Ross in addition to performing the watm up for a whole series of Carol Voderman's Brain Game (sky), Davina (BBC), Streed Cred Sudoku (UKTV) and The It Crowd ((CH4), Golden Balls (Endemol/ITV) and for The Rest of Your Life (Endemol), Friday Night Project (CH4). He has also performed studio warm up for Lenny Henry TV show, BBC'S Sport's Relief, CH4's Whatever, Dance X (BBC), Lab Rats (BBC) as well as various TV pilots.

Television:
'The Comedy Stroe' Paramount Comedy Channel
'Armstrong & Miller Show' BBC
'Where in the world' Sky Travel channel
'Channel four news' CH4
'That's so last week' CH5 Zig Zag (series regular)
'Whatever' Ginger TV Sky 1
'Street Cred Sudoku' Hanrahan Media UKTV
'Britains Most embarrassing parents' Trouble
'Playing away' Presenting Travel series for Tyne tees
'Rum TV'' Various short sketches Sky one
'Take the Mike' Stand-up Show on ITV
'London comedy festival' LWT