Robin Ince
Award-winning Comedian, Writer & Stand Up
Robin Ince is best known as populariser of scientific ideas. He has toured solo shows about consciousness, Charles Darwin, and physics, as well as writing and presenting documentaries about the history and psychology of self-help, comedians and melancholy.
"A Becardiganed Polymath......The Guardian"
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He is probably best known as the co-host of the Sony Gold Award winning BBC Radio 4 series The Infinite Monkey Cage with Professor Brian Cox. He also co-hosts the podcast Book Shambles with Josie Long, An Uncanny Hour and Science Shambles with Dr Helen Czerski, all three of which are a part of The Cosmic Shambles Network, which he also co-created. As a standup he has toured the world and won three Chortle Awards, the Time Out Outstanding Achievement Award and was nominated for the British Comedy Awards Best Live show.
WHAT he OFFERS YOU
Much vaunted as a comic for intellectuals, Robin Ince has a strong, traditional, stand-up approach which often goes on warped, but hilarious, diversions before returning to more sharp and polished observational material. He'll make you laugh, and just might make you think.