Rachel Parris is a BAFTA Nominated comedian, musician, actor and improviser, best know for her viral segments on BBC2's The Mash Report and as the host of Dave's Late Night Mash.
She has appeared on Live at The Apollo, Mock the Week, and Cats Does Countdown, as well as many other comedy and entertainment shows, including QI, Would I Lie To You, Comedians Giving Lectures, Question Team, Meet The Richardson’s, Hypothetical and hosting segments on Proms Encore (BBC2), the Big New Years In (BBC1) and hosting The Girls Guide to TV (BBC2) and Thronecast (Sky).
As a musical comedian, she has won critical acclaim for her solo shows which have run at the Edinburgh Fringe, and sell-out national tours, and has been awarded The Chortle Award for Best Variety Act, Best Musical Comedy Show (Whats On London), Best Jokes of the Fringe (Telegraph), nominated for Best Show 2016 (Funny Women) and recommended as a Pick of the Fringe by the Guardian who described it as "Beautifully crafted and performed...tears of laughter".
She is also an experienced improviser, and is a founding member of the award-winning improv comedy smash hit Austentatious, an Edinburgh Fringe sell-out show, UK Tour sell-out, with a residency in London's West End and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Rachel also guests with the Comedy Store Players and Whose Line is it Anyway.
She appears regularly on BBC Radio 4, including in The Now Show and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and in her standup special, Austensibly Feminist. As an actor she has appeared in the IT Crowd Special on Channel 4, BBC2's Murder In Successville, Plebs on ITV2, Russell Howard's Good News, Revolting on BBC2, There She Goes for BBC 4 and Trying on Apple TV.
She has appeared on Live at The Apollo, Mock the Week, and Cats Does Countdown, as well as many other comedy and entertainment shows, including QI, Would I Lie To You, Comedians Giving Lectures, Question Team, Meet The Richardson’s, Hypothetical and hosting segments on Proms Encore (BBC2), the Big New Years In (BBC1) and hosting The Girls Guide to TV (BBC2) and Thronecast (Sky).
As a musical comedian, she has won critical acclaim for her solo shows which have run at the Edinburgh Fringe, and sell-out national tours, and has been awarded The Chortle Award for Best Variety Act, Best Musical Comedy Show (Whats On London), Best Jokes of the Fringe (Telegraph), nominated for Best Show 2016 (Funny Women) and recommended as a Pick of the Fringe by the Guardian who described it as "Beautifully crafted and performed...tears of laughter".
She is also an experienced improviser, and is a founding member of the award-winning improv comedy smash hit Austentatious, an Edinburgh Fringe sell-out show, UK Tour sell-out, with a residency in London's West End and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Rachel also guests with the Comedy Store Players and Whose Line is it Anyway.
She appears regularly on BBC Radio 4, including in The Now Show and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and in her standup special, Austensibly Feminist. As an actor she has appeared in the IT Crowd Special on Channel 4, BBC2's Murder In Successville, Plebs on ITV2, Russell Howard's Good News, Revolting on BBC2, There She Goes for BBC 4 and Trying on Apple TV.
