Hello, passing internet traveller. Welcome to my website.
I’m guessing you’d like some information on me for whatever reason, so here is where you shall find it.
I am a stand-up comedian originally from Stroud in Gloucestershire.
I have been performing comedy regularly since January 2010, but my comedy career began in an irregular fashion in April 2005 when I did my first gig at Havant Arts Centre, aged 20. Over the next three years, I amassed a measly 35 gigs with varying levels of success before running out of money; I put comedy on hold after I started a new job as a reporter for a local paper in 2008. Just over a year later, while the country was still in the thick of the recession, I thought it would be wise to quit my job and move to London to get back into comedy.
In 2014, I took up my first solo show to Edinburgh Fringe called How To Win A Pub Quiz, which is part stand-up show, part actual pub quiz. In 2015, How To Win A Pub Quiz II was standing-room only for 18 out of 19 shows. Two sold-out runs followed in 2016 and 2017 in The Stand’s 60-seater. The Edinburgh Fringe 2018, the show sold-out in Stand 2. In 2019, it played to full rooms in New Zealand.
For the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe, I did midday shows in Stand 2, with several late-night shows in Stand 1.
I have written for the Guardian (albeit two things on computer games) and something I wrote on an anonymous questionnaire made it into Richard Herring’s Talking Cock book.
As for TV. Well, where do I start? I appeared in an eight second clip on BBC Points West’s comedy competition in 2007 that I couldn’t actually enter and I was in a crowd shot at the Big Breakfast’s Eggs on Legs tour in Bristol in 1995, where I was also shouted at by a producer for climbing on the back of a lorry. Oh, that’s it… If you can track down footage of either, I will be very impressed.
Now here is what some people have said about me:
“Alex Love is great fun, and there is, it must be said, not much squid-based humour around, so his set gave us a rare chance to enjoy it.”
Kate Copstick, The Scotsman
“Very funny stuff”
Dan Antopolski, comedian
“Engaging… An obsession with piss”
Steve Bennett, Chortle
“A quick-fire wit”
BBC Comedy
“Such a quick brain”
We Are Funny: Variety, London
“A constant apologist” 1/5
James Hampson, ThreeWeeks