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Nick Revell

"A master craftsman" (Time Out 2003)

"...one of the most creative and incisive comics on the circuit" (Guardian)

"Revell's pedigree goes back to the Eighties, but his patter is as relevant today as it ever was" (London Evening Standard)

"He is an animated, engaging raconteur offering a master-class in delivery with variety in page, volume and rhythm that keeps an already attentive audience transfixed" (Chortle)

"Satirically brilliant. Travel miles to see him" (Guardian)

"Easy delivery and a great stage presence" (Times)

"Scalpel-sharp satirist" (London Evening Standard)

"fiercely fully...insightful, incandescent." (The Herald)

"Revell makes you laugh and think; a rare and cherishable combination these days" (The Scotsman)

"Nick Revell is an excellent stand-up comic...an act that distinguishes itself by sharp observation and intelligence" (Independent)

Over the next twelve years he worked extensively on the expanding alternative comedy circuit, was a regular at The Comedy Store and Jongleurs and made many visits to the Edinburgh Fringe, including Brave New Comedy in 1984 (with Arnold Brown, Norman Lovett and Paul Merton) and was nominated for the Perrier Award for his solo show in 1987.

During this period he appeared on countless TV and Radio shows, including Friday Night Live, Live at Jongleurs, made two visits to the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal, several series of the award-winning Million Pound Radio Show on BBC Radio 4 in which he co-starred with Andy Hamilton, two series of the Radio 4 sit-com The Nick Revell Show, and his own show Nick Revell, on BBC-1. Also panel shows such as Just A Minute, The News Quiz, Quote Unquote.

His TV and Radio credits as a writer include sitcoms, sketch shows and material for other comedians - Drop the Dead Donkey, Dressing for Breakfast, After You’d Gone, Dave Allen, Three of a Kind, Not the Nine O’Clock News, Alas Smith and Jones, Rory Bremner and Jasper Carrot, The Million Pound Radio Show, House of the Spirit Levels, Living with the Enemy, Weekending, The News Huddlines, The Unofficial Election, The Nick Revell Show, and The Sunday Format, to name but a few.

Awards for the above include Perrier Nominee, BAFTAs, International Emmys, British Comedy Awards, Sony Radio Awards, Writers’ Guild Awards, Silver Rose of Montreux.

For ten years from 1992 he stopped doing stand-up. During this period he performed two solo theatre shows, The Ghost of John Belushi Flushed My Toilet and Liberal Psychotic, which both transferred from successful runs at the Edinburgh Festival to Hampstead Theatre and then toured internationally. He continued to write extensively not only for TV and Radio but also two novels, House of the Spirit Levels and The Night of the Toxic Ostrich, and a stage play, Love and Other Fairy Tales which was highly successful with critics and audiences alike. He also presented Radio 4’s literature programme Open Book.

Currently he is working the comedy circuit relentlessly and writing a sitcom pilot, The Prince, for BBC Radio 4.

TV and Radio:
Nick Revell's credits as writer and performer include six series of The Million Pound Radio Show (BBC R4), two series of The Nick Revell Show (BBC R4), four series of Drop the Dead Donkey (Channel 4), four series of Sunday Format (BBC R4), Nick Revell (BBC 1 TV), Friday Night Live, (Channel 4) and two appearances at the Montreal Comedy Festival Just for Laughs. (Channel 4)

He has written for many other comedians including Dave Allen, Rory Bremner, Jasper Carrot, Bob Monkhouse and Michael Moore.

Novels:
House of the Spirit Levels

"A brilliant spoof of magic realism crossed with an imaginative post-modernist Wuthering Heights...hilarious gothic mayhem...inspired". Mail On Sunday

Night of the Toxic Ostrich:

"If Hunter S. Thompson met Eddie Izzard in a bar and offered him some very high quality drugs, the resulting conversation would not be half so strange as Nick Revell's Night of the Toxic Ostrich...There are shades of Kingsley Amis here, a ruthless anatomising of motive and delusion and an appreciation that, in the end, nothing is absurd as human behaviour...Revell's first novel House of the Spirit Levels drew frequent comparison with Ben Elton but he is better than that". The Times.

Theatre:

Love and Other Fairy Tales, based on Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Tale".

"a magical piece, a playful, witty take on the Wife of Bath's Tale that brings out all of Chaucer's modernity and bawdy humour...intelligent demanding and deliciously romantic" - The Guardian. (Four Stars out of five)

"A fabulous fairy tale...a wholly accessible, hugely amusing piece of theatre" - Independent

"Lingering brightly in the mind. Love and Other Fairytales is an adorable excerpt from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales...done with great theatrical charm. Characterisations bloom suddenly out of nowhere and the vivid narrative always co-exists with the act of telling while travelling" - Financial Times

AWARDS:
Awards for the TV and Radio shows include various British Comedy Awards, Sony Awards, BAFTAs and an International Emmy.