She previously reached the finals of several competitions, including Leicester Square New Comedian Of The Year and Hackney Empire New Act Of The Year in 2011 as well as being placed runner-up in the Funny Women Awards 2010 and the Musical Comedy Awards in 2012. She also appeared in the final episode of the IT Crowd.
Reviewing their everyday lives
Rachel Parris and Marcus Brigstocke are launching a new podcast in which the married comics review pretty much anything that's happened to them.
How Was It For You? has its roots in Tuesday Night Club, the weekly online shows they made with the Always Be Comedy club during lockdown.
Speaking to the venue's podcast, Parris said: 'We are finally getting our act together. It's something we've been meaning to do since Tuesday Night Club... with [that] we were sort of doing the format for a podcast all through lockdown. So we had a lot of practice of hosting for two years. So we’ve said, "We really should do a podcast".
'We finally spoke to someone who said they would help us do it because we're not technological enough to do ourselves.
'It's a review show, but we review stuff in our lives and in the world. So, we're not going to review the TV show Gladiators, but we will review watching Gladiators with three generations in the family, trying to explain it to a teenager and trying to explain it to your elderly husband, in my case.
'Marcus told me off for calling it three generations. It was me, him and his daughter.'
The show will be available on all podcast platforms, with Audible hosting a 'coming soon' trailer since last month.
Published: 26 Mar 2024
Radio 4 pilots new topical comedy shows
Radio 4 is piloting six new topical comedy shows in…
5/07/2023
Rachel Parris has more fake news
Rachel Parris is to return to spoof news – four…
3/07/2023
Dave has cancelled Late Night Mash after two series.
The…
10/03/2023
Rachel Parris takes over as Late Night Mash host
Rachel Parris is to take over from Nish Kumar as the…
20/05/2022
Rachel Parris writes her first book
Rachel Parris has written her first book – a…
14/12/2021
All hail the Legends Of Lockdown!
All the winners of this year's Chortle…
31/03/2021
The BBC won’t be making any more episode of The…
12/03/2021
Channel 4 has been criticised for including no female…
18/12/2020
Marcus Brigstocke and Rachel Parris join Jazz FM
Comedians Marcus Brigstocke and Rachel…
18/12/2019
Sky orders shorts from up-and-coming comics
Sky has commissioned a series of ten comedy shorts…
6/09/2019
Rachel Parris is up for a Bafta
Lee Mack, Rachel Parris and Daisy May Cooper are among…
28/03/2019
The producers of The Mash Report have been rapped on…
21/09/2018
Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel
Parris & Dowler Know What They're Doing
We do not currently hold contact details for Rachel Parris's agent. If you are a comic or agent wanting your details to appear here, for a one-off fee of £59, email steve@chortle.co.uk.
We see you are using AdBlocker software. Chortle relies on advertisers to fund this website so it’s free for you, so we would ask that you disable it for this site. Our ads are non-intrusive and relevant. Help keep Chortle viable.
