Nick Revell started writing satirical and topical material for BBC Radio and TV in the late ‘70s on satirical shows like Weekending, The News Huddlines and Not the Nine O’Clock News.
He began his career as stand-up comedian at The Comedy Store in 1980.
TV and Radio work as a writer and performer of sitcoms, sketch shows and stand-up includes The Nick Revell Show, Drop the Dead Donkey, The Million Pound Radio Show and most recently BrokenDreamCatcher - “sublimely surreal” - Gillian Reynolds, Sunday Times “…so good…uplifting stuff.” Miranda Sawyer, Observer
He has published two novels, House of the Spirit Levels and Night of the Toxic Ostrich. Credits as a playwright include Love and Other Fairytales, Maybe Some Other Time, and Better than Dead. Solo shows include The Ghost of John Belushi Flushed My Toilet and Liberal Psychotic, which both ran at Hampstead Theatre.
He has written material for many other performers including Dave Allen, Rory Bremner, and most recently Tom Walker’s alter ego, Jonathan Pie, with whom he has worked on live shows and two series of the award-winning BBC Radio sitcom Call Jonathan Pie in which he plays regular cast member Roger. His third book, Portrait of the Dog as a Young Artist is illustrated by the Guardian cartoonist Martin Rowson and will be published in late March 2025.
Awards include International Emmys and BAFTAs for Drop the Dead Donkey, Sony Radio, British Comedy, Writers’ Guild awards and a Silver Rose of Montreux for various other programmes, and a Perrier Award nomination. He is one of two people who have twice been voted Favourite Act at the Laugharne Literary Festival. (The other one is Patti Smith). He also co-created and produced the topical podcast No Pressure to be Funny, hosted by James O’Brien.
“satirically brilliant” Guardian
“They say you slow down as you get older, but not Revell. Ideas, jokes and endless absurdist flights of fancy seem to pour out of his restless mind…a master storyteller.” Bruce Dessau, Beyond the Joke
“One of Revell’s most accomplished skills is his ability to blend reality and fantasy, so that as you hurtle through the verbal rapids you will suddenly ricochet off something and realise that a brilliant political point has just been made, or spin around only to find that you have just been hit with a smart socio-political insight. The hour is a real head rush (no drugs necessary). A master of his craft.” Kate Copstick, Scotsman
