Jason Cook started in comedy with a Newcastle sketch troupe known as Soup, before moving into stand-up around Tyneside, regularly compering Newcastle’s Hyena Club. He is now based in Manchester, and runs his own alternative night at the city’s Frog and Bucket comedy club, The Asylum.

Cook wass one half of spoof German techno band Die Clatterschenkenfietermaus, Karl Karl, and in 2007, he took his first solo stand up show, Confessions, to the Edinburgh fringe.

He was nominated best compere in the 2010 Chortle awards.