Jon Richardson

Jon Richardson

Jon Joel Richardson is an English comedian. He is known for his appearances on Channel 4’s 8 Out of 10 Cats. He also co-hosted a Sunday morning radio show on BBC Radio 6 Music with Russell Howard. He won the 2008 Chortle Award for Best Breakthrough Act.

About Jon Richardson in brief

Summary Jon RichardsonJon Joel Richardson is an English comedian. He is known for his appearances on Channel 4’s 8 Out of 10 Cats. He also co-hosted a Sunday morning radio show on BBC Radio 6 Music with Russell Howard. Richardson is the presenter of Jon Richardson: Ultimate Worrier. He won the 2008 Chortle Award for Best Breakthrough Act, and performed Dogmatic at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He has performed at comedy festivals in Leeds, Guildford and Bristol, and has headlined university gigs for Off the Kerb and Avalon. Richardson said his worst gig ever was a couple of months ago at the Doncaster Dome. In August 2013, he headlined the V Festival at the V&A in London. In December 2012, he broadcast The Real Man’s Road Trip: Sean & Jon Go Go. In January 2014, he appeared on Radio 5’s Fighting Talk on Fighting Talk.

He appeared on the BBC Radio 5 Live show Fighting Talk in February 2010. He was curator of The Museum of Curiosity for its third series. In March 2010, he presented a BBC Three programme about compulsions and strange habits, entitled Different Like Me. He presented a 2012 documentary entitled A Little Bit OCD, in which he studied the lives of people diagnosed with OCD and worried that he might have the same condition; he was indeed revealed to exhibit symptoms of OCD, but did not show signs of the accompanying dysfunction. In November 2012, Richardson released his first stand up DVD, Funny Magnet. His first book, It’s Not Me, It’s You!, was published during the same month.