Geoff Norcott

Geoff Norcott (born 16 December 1976) is an English comedian, writer and political commentator who has been performing since 2001, and has appeared on Mock the Week, Live at the Apollo and Question Time, and written for The Daily Telegraph, The Independent and Spiked. He claims to be the only outwardly Conservative Party voter on the British comedy circuit, and in 2017, was listed as one of the 'Top 100 Most Influential People on the Conservative Right'.

Norcott was raised in South London. His parents divorced when he was 9, and his mother moved with him and his elder sister to a council estate in Wimbledon.

He attended Southfields Secondary School, before moving to the Rutlish School for boys, the same school attended by Conservative Prime Minister John Major.

Norcott holds an English degree from Goldsmiths, University of London, and worked previously as an English teacher.

Norcott performed at his first comedy gig two days after 9/11, initially performing as a way of supplementing his teaching income.

In 2005, Norcott was approached to be represented and started to appear on radio and television, as a panellist and presenter on shows for Talksport, Nuts TV and the BBC.

He received an Operational Service Medal for five frontline tours entertaining the troops in Afghanistan.

In 2013, Norcott was nominated for 'Best New Show' at the Leicester Comedy Festival for his show Geoff Norcott Occasionally Sells Out, about - among other things - the fact he was now a Conservative voter, which he then took to the Edinburgh Fringe.

He returned to the Fringe in 2015 with The Look of Moron, a further development of his voice as a political comic, and again in 2016 with Conswervative, which received wide political acclaim and a successful sold-out run.

In early 2017, Norcott made his first appearances on Question Time and as a regular on BBC 2's The Mash Report, both of which he continues to appear on to date.

Norcott took another show, Right Leaning, But Well Meaning, to the Fringe the same year to further acclaim, and the show was later recorded as a radio special for BBC Radio 4, airing in 2018.

In 2018, he made his first appearance on Live at the Apollo, and took a new show, Traditionalism on a UK tour.

Later the same year, Norcott appeared on Mock the Week for the first time, receiving an online backlash being the first openly Brexit voting comic to appear on the show.

He has also appeared on several UK political debate shows, including Politics Live and Daily Politics.

Norcott has written for a number of UK television shows, including A League of Their Own, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and Frankie Boyle's New World Order.

A 2019 appearance on Question Time prompted another online backlash for Norcott, after a clip of him calling out European Union President Donald Tusk went viral.

In 2019 he presented the BBC2 documentry How The Middle Classes Ruined Britain where he investigated issues like how some people gamed the system to secure places in good schools, and accusations of social cleansing in housing.

Norcott has been married since 2004.

• Conswervative (2016)
• Right Leaning But Well Meaning (2017)
• Traditionalism (2018)
• Taking Liberties (2019)

• Question Time, BBC 2, 2017 – 2019
• The Jeremy Vine Show, C5, 2019
• The Wright Stuff, C5, 2018
• Live at The Apollo, BBC, 2018
• Mock the Week, BBC 2, 2018
• Dave’s Advent Calendar, Dave, 2018
• Politics Live, BBC, 2018
• The Blame Game, BBC NI, 2017
• Edinburgh Nights, BBC 2, 2017
• Comedy Bigmouths, C5, 2017
• The Mash Report, BBC 2, 2017 - present
• Daily Politics, BBC, 2017
• All Out Politics, Sky News, 2017 – present

• Right Leaning But Well Meaning, BBC Radio 4
• Good Week, Bad Week, BBC Radio 5Live
• The Now Show, BBC Radio 4
• Loose Ends, BBC Radio 4
• Breaking the News, Radio Scotland

• Have I Got News For You, BBC
• King Gary, BBC 2
• Xmas Live At The Apollo, BBC 2
• 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Channel 4
• Judge Romesh, Dave
• A League of Their Own, Sky 1
• The Sarah Millican Television Programme, BBC 2
• Roast Battle, Comedy Central
• Katherine Ryan Stand-up Show, JFL
• Frankie Boyle’s New World Order, BBC 2
• The Misadventures of Romesh, BBC 2
• Fake News, Channel 4
• Safeword, ITV 2
• 8 Out of 10 Cats, Channel 4
• Round Earth, BBC Worldwide