Mark Olver (comedian)

Mark Olver is an English stand-up comedian from Bristol. He specialises as a compere and a warm-up act for television shows.

Career

Olver won the Leicester Comedy Festival Best New Show award in 2011.[1] He was nominated for Best Compere at the 2015 Chortle Awards.[2] Olver performed in the live final of the BBC Radio New Comedy Award 2016 in Edinburgh.[3]

Olver provides warm-up for numerous television shows including 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Pointless, Deal or No Deal, Thronecast, The Last Leg, Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled and the chat shows hosted by Jonathan Ross and Alan Carr.[4][5]

He has worked teaching comedy to young offenders[6] and has run gigs to help raise money for homelessness.[7][8]

Personal life

Olver has previously shared houses with fellow comedians Russell Howard, John Robins, Jon Richardson, Wil Hodgson and Mat Ewins.[9][10]

References

  1. ↑ "Mark Olver - stand up comedian - Just the Tonic Comedy Club". Just the Tonic.
  2. ↑ "Chortle Awards 2015 nominees announced". British Comedy Guide. 17 February 2015.
  3. ↑ "Mark Olver - NCA 2016: Live Final - Live from Edinburgh, 2016, BBC New Comedy Award - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  4. ↑ "The warm-up men and women: Who do Graham Norton and Alan Carr rely on to get big laughs?". www.independent.co.uk.
  5. ↑ "Mark Olver is the man that makes Deal Or No Deal tick". walesonline.co.uk. 9 April 2010.
  6. ↑ "Good lives: Mark Olver, Comedian working with young offenders". the Guardian. 12 September 2006.
  7. ↑ "Belly Laughs' mouth-watering Bristol line-up". www.crumbsmag.com.
  8. ↑ "UK's best comedians set to play intimate gigs in Bristol restaurants". bristolpost.co.uk. 5 January 2018.
  9. ↑ "5 Questions for: Mark Olver – The Kettle". www.comedykettle.co.uk.
  10. ↑ https://www.getawriggleon.com/magazine/bristol/introducing/belly-laughs-coming-to-bristol-this-january.amp



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