Biography

Andy Parsons is an English stand-up comedian and writer, known as a regular panellist on Mock The Week from series 3 to series 14.

Along with comedy partner Henry Naylor, he has written and presented nine series of Parsons And Naylor's Pull-Out Sections for BBC Radio 2.

Born in Weymouth, Dorset, Parsons was educated at Parc Eglos Primary School, Helston Comprehensive School, an Churston Ferrers Grammar School, before reading Law at Christ's College, Cambridge. It was here that he met Henry Naylor and eventually formed a double act, touring twice with the National Student Theatre Company and once with the successful Cambridge comedy group the Footlights.

After graduation, Parsons initially worked as a legal clerk on a case at the Greenock shipyards, which he has described as "the most tedious thing I'd ever done." Thankfully for the comedy world, he elected to change approach and soon established TBA, London's first ever sketch comedy club.

Parsons began his career as a writer on ITV's puppet-based satirical comedy show Spitting Image, and soon he was making guest appearances on shows such as They Think It's All Over, QI, and Fighting Talk, on BBC Radio 5 Live. From 2005 to [/y]2015[/y] he was a regular panellist on Mock The Week, missing only five episodes in total.

An accomplished stand-up performer, Parsons won the Time Out Comedy Award in 2002, and has toured the UK on numerous occasions.

From 2008 to 2010 Parsons wrote and recorded his own BBC Radio 4 sitcom entitled Scrooby Trevithick. It is based on at the well-meaning but desperately flawed and hapless Scrooby, who tries to better himself through his own website, where he's left a number of web diaries.