Roisin Conaty

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Róisín Conaty
Born (1979-03-26) 26 March 1979 (age 45)[1][2]
Camden, London, United Kingdom
Medium Stand-up comedy, television
Years active 2004–present[3][4]

Roisin Conaty (/ˈrʃn ˈkɔːnət/; born 26 March 1979) is an English comedian. She was part of the first series of Taskmaster.

Live and stand-up

In 2010, Conaty won the Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Festival for her show Hero, Warrior, Fireman, Liar,[1][5] becoming one of only five women to receive an Edinburgh Comedy award in 30 years. Conaty is managed by Avalon. In April 2011, she performed her award-winning show at the Melbourne Comedy Festival.

Television

Conaty appeared on Russell Howard's Good News on BBC Three and performed with Victoria Wood, Jo Brand, Andi Osho, Isy Suttie and Katy Brand on the Angina Monologues for Sky Television. In March 2011, she took part in David Walliams' 24 Hour Panel People for Comic Relief, streamed live on the BBC, participating in the Call My Bluff segment with Walliams, Tim Key and Alex Horne. She has also appeared on BBC Radio 1's Innuendo Bingo.[6]

Conaty appeared on the first edition of Channel 4's Show and Tell and has appeared on a number of panel shows including Have I Got News for You, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Insert Name Here and an episode of Room 101 with Joan Bakewell and Richard Osman.

Conaty stars in BBC's hidden camera television series Impractical Jokers UK with Paul McCaffrey, Joel Dommett and Marek Larwood and in Dave's One Night Stand with Greg Davies. She plays Jo in the Channel 4 sitcom Man Down opposite Greg Davies.[7] She also appeared alongside Davies on the Dave show Taskmaster.

She wrote the pilot of GameFace, in which she played a struggling actress named Marcella. It was aired on Channel 4 and was very well received by the press.[8]

Conaty appeared in two episodes of The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice and took part in BBC2's Let's Play Darts for Comic Relief. Her darts pro partner was Richie George. She lost in the second of the semi-finals.

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Preceded by if.comedy award for Best Newcomer
2010
Succeeded by
Humphrey Ker