Andy Zaltzman
The host of Radio 4’s News Quiz since 2020, Andy Zalztman is also the resident statistician on Test Match Special and one of the contestants on series 18 of Taskmasker.
An Oxford classics graduate, he emerged on to the stand-up scene in 1999, when he was a finalist in the So You Think You're Funny? talent contest.
The following year he was chosen to take part in the Comedy Zone showcase at Edinburgh, and also made the finals of the Daily Telegraph Open Mic award. His solo Edinburgh debut, Andy Zaltzman versus The Dog Of Doom, was nominated for the Perrier Best Newcomer award in 2001
Zaltzman previously worked extensively with John Oliver. In 2004, they launched a satire night in London and Edinburgh, called Political Animal, which transferred to Radio 4, and in 2007 the topical podcast The Bugle.
Zaltzman performed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for the first time in April 2007, where he won the coveted Piece of Wood Award for comedians' comedian.
