Paul Kerensa

ITV ‘Take The Mike’ Award Winner 2002
British Comedy Award Nominee 2007 (writer)

Exiled Cornishman Paul Kerensa has established himself as one of British comedy’s leading young talents, both as a writer and a comedian. In just a few short years he has become a regular at the UK’s biggest venues, and a popular and reliable headline act.

Still only in his late twenties, Paul has, as a ginger man, battled both prejudice and apathy, and emerged to win ITV’s ‘Take The Mike’ stand-up competition in 2002. In the same year, he appeared in four new act finals at the Edinburgh Festival, including the televised BBC New Comedy Awards.

He writes for various sitcoms, including BBC1 hits Not Going Out and After You’ve Gone, as well as sketch shows such as Dead Ringers, ITV’s CGI UK and BBC3’s The Wrong Door. He was awarded the Titheridge Prize as BBC Radio Entertainment’s in-house comedy writer, and has also written for The
News Quiz, The Now Show, and countless others.

He’s also very modest, so given that he wrote all of the above, just pretend he wasn’t modest and imagine what else he must have done but hasn’t told you about. Here’s what other less biased people said about him:

**** Metro
**** Chortle
“attitude, style and diamond-sharp wit” Maxim Magazine
“f**king funny” Ricky Gervais