Charlie George is an award-winning stand-up comedian and writer, as well as a host, MC, and speaker. In 2019, she was named LGBTQ New Comedian of the Year and was a runner-up in the So You Think You’re Funny and Funny Women Awards.
Charlie has appeared on various platforms, including BBC Asian Network Live, BBC’s No Country for Women Podcast, Comedy Central’s Rhod Gilbert’s Growing Pains, ITV2’s Stand Up Sketch Show, and BBC 2’s Apprentice You’re Fired.
As a writer, she was selected for Charlie Brooker’s writers room for Cunk & Other Humans in 2019. She contributed to the BAFTA-nominated AntiViral Wipe in 2020 and worked on Netflix’s Death to 2020 and Death to 2021. Her writing credits also include the C4 Election night special, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Hypothetical, Newsjack, The Now Show, Have I Got News For You, Horrible Histories, Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back, Frankie Boyle’s New World Order, Stand Up to Cancer, Kiri Pritchard-McLean’s Best Medicine, and Mawaan Rizwan’s BAFTA-winning Juice.
Charlie was chosen from 3,700 writers for the Penguin Write Now editorial programme to write her first book, Door to Door. The book details her experiences growing up as a devout Jehovah’s Witness and becoming transient and homeless after leaving the religion and her family home as a teenager.
She is developing original comedy and comedy-drama scripts and has won two New York Festivals Radio Awards for ‘Best Writing’ and ‘Best Regularly Scheduled Comedy Programme’ for her contributions to Rockanory, an original series for Absolute Radio with Unusual Productions.
As a regular MC and host, Charlie performs across the country. She hosted an Audible original podcast series with anthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota, titled Happiness & How to Get It, which explored evidence-based solutions for improving wellbeing and mental health. Charlie’s preferred title for the podcast, Despair & How to Release Its Death Grip, was deemed “not a viable option.”
