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Katy Brand

Katy Brand

Katy Brand started her comedy career writing and performing with live sketch shows, including the acclaimed Ealing Live collective of character comedians.

It led to her one-woman show, Celebrities Are Gods, which she took to Edinburgh in 2005, and the following year he wrote and performed her own Channel 4 Comedy Lab, Slap!

In 2007, Brand was given her own ITV2 programme Katy Brand's Big Ass Show, which earned her the best female newcomer award at the 2008 British Comedy Awards.

She has also made brief appearances in Peep Show, Hyperdrive, Tittybangbang and Casualty.

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Brian and Charles up for film awards

...as is Katy Brand for Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

Brian and Charles – the quirky mockmentary based around David Earl’s alter-ego Brian Gittins – has been nominated in two categories of the British Independent Film Awards.

Earl and his co-writer Chris Hayward are up for best debut screenwriter, while the producer Rupert Majendie has been nominated for breakthrough producer. He is also the man behind Dave’s forthcoming Live At The Moth Club (interview)

The film, directed by Jim Archer, revolves around a lonely inventor in rural Wales, who manages to create a sentient robot from a  mannequin’s head and a washing machine. The film previously won the audience favourite award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival: London 

Meanwhile, Katy Brand has been nominated for best screenplay for Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, which is also nominated for best British independent film, best director  for Sophie Hyde, Best Screenplay and best joint lead performance for stars Daryl McCormack and r Emma Thompson.  

Winners will be announced at a ceremony on  December 4.

» Brian and Charles film review

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Published: 4 Nov 2022

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Products

Book (2019)
I Carried A Watermelon

Book (2014)
Brenda Monk Is Funny

Past Shows

Edinburgh Fringe 2005

Katy Brand: Celebrities Are Gods


Edinburgh Fringe 2016

Katy Brand: I Was a Teenage Christian

Katy Brand: I Was a Teenage Christian


Edinburgh Fringe 2017

Katy Brand: I Could've Been an Astronaut


Misc live shows

Secret Policeman's Ball 2008


Tour

Katy Brand's Big Ass Tour


Agent

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