Kiri Pritchard-McLean
Kiri Pritchard-McLean

Kiri Pritchard-McLean

  • 35 years-old
  • Welsh
  • Actor, writer and stand-up comedian

Known for: Gein's Family Giftshop Present... (Writer), Newsjack (Host / Presenter)

  1. 29th December via The National (Wales): Kiri Pritchard-McLean's GISDA Giggles 2 to take place in Bangor
  2. 22nd December via British Comedy Guide: BBC Audio Awards 2022 nominees
  3. 18th December via Powys County Times: Nish Kumar and Rosie Jones sign up for Machynlleth Comedy Festival
  4. 19th November via The Guardian: New organisation launched to tackle sexual harassment in live comedy
  5. 4th November via Beyond The Joke: Tour for Kiri Pritchard-McLean
Kiri Pritchard-McLean
Kiri Pritchard-McLean is a Welsh actor, writer and stand-up comedian.

More information

Born
Thursday 6th November 1986
Member of
Nationality
Welsh / English

Awards

Chortle Awards 2021
Legend(s) Of Lockdown: Winner (Live At The Covid Arms)
National Comedy Awards, The 2021
Outstanding Female Comedy Entertainment Performance: Longlisted
Chortle Awards 2020
Best Compere: Winner
JOE Comedy Awards 2020
(Virtual) Shows: Winner (The Covid Arms)
Comics' Comic Award 2020
Outstanding Achievement Award: Nominee (Live At The Covid Arms)
Chortle Awards 2019
Breakthrough Act: Winner
Chortle Awards 2019
Best Compere: Winner
Chortle Awards 2019
Best Music or Variety Act: Nominee
JOE Comedy Awards 2019
Podcast: Winner (All Killa No Filla)
Chortle Awards 2019
Internet Award: Nominee (All Killa No Filla)
Chortle Awards 2018
Best Compere: Winner
Chortle Awards 2018
Best Club Comic: Winner
Chortle Awards 2017
Best Compere: Nominee
Chortle Awards 2016
Best Compere: Nominee
Leicester Mercury Comedian Of The Year 2015
Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year: Nominee
Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2014
Best Newcomer: Nominee
Amused Moose National New Comic Award 2014
Main Prize: Nominee
BBC New Comedy Award 2014
Main Prize: Heat eight
BBC New Comedy Award 2013
Main Prize: Heat five

Credits

Year Production Role
2022 Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Appropriate Adult Announced Writer
2022 Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Appropriate Adult Announced Host / Presenter
2022 Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Home Truths Coming Soon Self
2022 Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Home Truths Coming Soon Writer
2022 The News Quiz - Series 107 Guest
2022 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown - Series 21 (Channel 4: Series 22)
  1. E1 - Episode One
 Guest
2022 TV Flashback - Series 6 Narrator
2021 Newsjack Host / Presenter
2021 The Russell Howard Hour - Series 6 Announced Writer
2021 What Just Happened? Writer
2021 What Just Happened? Host / Presenter
2021 What Just Happened? Host / Presenter
2021 Frankie Boyle's New World Order - Frankie Boyle's New World Order 2021 Regular Panellist
2021 Vandullz Heledd (Voice)
2021 Frankie Boyle's New World Order - Series 5 Regular Panellist
2021 The Aberystwyth Stand-Up Show - 2021 Host / Presenter
2021 BBC New Comedy Awards
  1. E1 - Swansea
 Host / Presenter
2021 Tarot: Soundbleed
  1. E2 - Episode Two
  2. E4 - Episode Four
 Various
2021 Question Team
  1. E7 - Episode Seven
 Guest
2021 Tarot: Soundbleed Writer
2021 Women in Comedy Festival Self
2021 Aberystwyth Comedy Festival Self
2021 Greenwich Comedy Festival Self
2021 The Russell Howard Hour - Series 5 Writer
2021 The Russell Howard Hour - Series 5
  1. E1 - Episode One
  2. E3 - Episode Three
 Self
2021 The News Quiz - Series 106 Guest
2021 Green Man Self
2021 The Learners - Series 1
  1. E2 - Episode Two
  2. E3 - Episode Three
  3. E4 - Episode Four
 Ensemble Actor
2021 Salisbury Comedy Festival Self
2021 The Learners - Series 1 Writer
2021 All Killa No Filla Live Self
2021 St Albans Comedy Garden Self
2021 Brighton Comedy Garden Self
2021 Cambridge Comedy Festival Self
2021 Marlowe Comedy Weekender Self
2021 The News Quiz - Series 105 Host / Presenter
2021 The Machynlleth Comedy Festival - 2021 Host / Presenter
2021 Guessable? - Series 2
  1. E4 - Episode Four
 Guest
2021 Funny Festival Live Host / Presenter
2021 Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Secret Desires Writer
2021 Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Secret Desires Host / Presenter
2021 Stand Up In My House Guest
2021 Newsjack - Series 24 Host / Presenter
2021 Rhod Gilbert's Growing Pains - Series 1
  1. E5 - Episode Five
 Writer
2021 Rhod Gilbert's Growing Pains - Series 1
  1. E1 - Episode One
 Guest
2021 Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Egg-sistential Crisis Writer
2021 Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Egg-sistential Crisis Host / Presenter
2021 The Learners - Pilot Writer
2021 Frankie Boyle's New World Order - Frankie Boyle's 2020 New World Order Regular Panellist
2021 The News Quiz - Series 104 Guest
2021 Live From Aberystwyth Pier Host / Presenter
2020 8 Out Of 10 Cats - Series 22
  1. E9 - Episode Nine
  2. Special - Best Bits
  3. Special - Best Bits
 Guest
2020 Have I Got News For You - Series 60
  1. E2 - Episode Two
  2. Special - Have I Got 2020 News For You
 Guest
2020 Guessable? - Series 1
  1. E3 - Episode Three
 Guest
2020 Stand Up For Live Comedy Host / Presenter
2020 Newsjack - Series 23 Host / Presenter
2020 The Russell Howard Hour - Series 4 Writer
2020 Frankie Boyle's New World Order - Series 4 Regular Panellist
2020 Comedy Game Night
  1. E8 - Episode Eight
 Guest
2020 Bristol Comedy Garden Self
2020 The Good, The Bad And The Unexpected - Series 5
  1. E4 - Episode Four
 Guest
2020 Comedians Solve World Problems - Series 2 Self
2020 The Machynlleth Comedy Festival - 2020 Host / Presenter
2020 The News Quiz - Series 102 Guest
2020 Who Said That? - Series 1
  1. E11 - Episode Eleven
 Guest
2020 Comedy Against Living Miserably
  1. E1 - Episode One
 Guest
2020 Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Empathy Pains Self
2020 The Aberystwyth Stand-Up Show - Live From Aberystwyth Pier Host / Presenter
2020 Newsjack - Series 22 Host / Presenter
2020 Nature Table - Series 1
  1. E4 - Episode Four
 Guest
2020 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown - Series 18 (Channel 4: Series 19)
  1. E2 - Episode Two
 Guest
2019 Frankie Boyle's New World Order - Frankie Boyle's 2019 New World Order
  1. Frankie Boyle's 2019 New World Order
 Regular Panellist
2019 Have I Got News For You - Series 58
  1. Special - Have I Got 2019 News For You
 Guest
2019 The Paddock - The Paddock Writer
2019 Romesh Presents... Writer
2019 Romesh Presents...
  1. E7 - Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Couchsurfer
 Host / Presenter
2019 The Russell Howard Hour - Series 3 Writer
2019 Live At The Apollo - Series 15
  1. E3 - Guz Khan, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Rhys James
 Guest
2019 Would I Lie To You? - Series 13
  1. E8 - Episode Eight
  2. Special - More Unseen Bits
 Guest
2019 Women in Comedy Festival Self
2019 Newsjack - Series 21 Host / Presenter
2019 The News Quiz - Series 100 Host / Presenter
2019 Amusical Writer
2019 Amusical Host / Presenter
2019 Reading & Leeds Festivals Self
2019 Green Man Self
2019 Kiri Pritchard-Mclean: Work in Progress Self
2019 Amusical Club Night Self
2019 Amusical Self
2019 Cornbury Festival Self
2019 Jon Richardson: Ultimate Worrier - Series 2
  1. E1 - The Self
 Guest
2019 Comedy Central Live
  1. E6 - Kiri Pritchard-McLean
 Writer
2019 Brighton Comedy Garden Self
2019 Long Division Self
2019 Comedy Central Live Self
2019 The Machynlleth Comedy Festival - 2019 Host / Presenter
2019 The Comedy Bus Self
2019 Have I Got News For You - Series 57
  1. E9 - Episode Nine
 Guest
2019 Frankie Boyle's New World Order - Series 3 Regular Panellist
2019 8 Out Of 10 Cats - Series 21
  1. E9 - Episode Nine
  2. Special - Best Bits, Part 1
  3. Special - Best Bits, Part 2
 Guest
2019 Newsjack - Series 20 Host / Presenter
2019 Hypothetical - Series 1
  1. E5 - Episode Five
 Guest
2019 Roast Battle - Series 3
  1. E2 - Episode Two
 Self
2018 The News Quiz - Series 98 Guest
2018 The Russell Howard Hour - Series 2 Writer
2018 The Now Show - Series 53 Writer
2018 The Now Show - Series 53 Self
2018 Newsjack Unplugged - Series 2
  1. E5 - Episode Five
  2. E6 - Episode Six
  3. E7 - Episode Seven
  4. E8 - Episode Eight
 Writer (Additional Material)
2018 Newsjack Unplugged - Series 2 Host / Presenter
2018 Comedy Central Live Self
2018 Stand Up At BBC Wales Host / Presenter
2018 Outsiders!! Writer
2018 Have I Got News For You - Series 56
  1. E3 - Episode Three
  2. Special - Have I Got 2018 News For You
 Guest
2018 Stand-Up For Radio Wales Host / Presenter
2018 Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Victim, Complex Self
2018 Amusical Self
2018 All Killa No Filla Live Self
2018 Where's The F In News? - Series 1
  1. E1 - Episode One
 Guest
2018 Comedy Central At The Comedy Store - Series 5
  1. E3 - Tom Allen At The Comedy Store
 Guest
2018 BBC New Comedy Award - 2018
  1. E5 - Heat 5 - Cardiff
 Guest
2018 BBC New Comedy Award - 2018
  1. E4 - Heat 4 - Manchester
 Host / Presenter
2018 Newsjack Unplugged - Series 1 Host / Presenter
2018 Riot Girls Writer (Additional Material)
2018 The Machynlleth Comedy Festival - 2018 Host / Presenter
2018 Life Lessons - Series 2
  1. E7 - Kiri Pritchard-McLean - Hungover Or Pregnant?
 Kiri
2018 Life Lessons - Series 2
  1. E7 - Kiri Pritchard-McLean - Hungover Or Pregnant?
 Writer
2018 The Leak - Series 7
  1. E1 - Episode One
  2. E3 - Machynlleth Comedy Festival Special
  3. E4 - Episode Four
 Guest
2018 The News Quiz - Series 96 Guest
2018 James Acaster: Repertoire
  1. E3 - Reset
 Announcer
2018 Nasty Women Self
2017 The Now Show - Series 51 Writer
2017 The Now Show - Series 51 Self
2017 The News Quiz - Series 94 Guest
2017 The Russell Howard Hour - Series 1 Writer (Additional Material)
2017 The Russell Howard Hour - Series 1
  1. E1 - Episode One
 Guest
2017 Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Appropriate Adult Self
2017 Amusical Self
2017 The Leak - Series 6
  1. E1 - Episode One
 Guest
2017 The News Quiz - Series 93 Guest
2017 The Now Show - Series 50 Writer
2017 The Now Show - Series 50 Self
2017 The News Quiz - Series 92 Writer (Additional Material)
2016 State Of The Nations
  1. E1 - Wales
 Self
2016 Kiri Pritchard-McLean's Horror: I've Got Your Number Writer
2016 Kiri Pritchard-McLean's Horror: I've Got Your Number Kiri
2016 The Now Show - Series 49 Writer
2016 The Now Show - Series 49 Self
2016 The News Quiz - Series 91 Writer (Additional Material)
2016 Fresh From The Fringe - 2016
  1. E2 - Episode Two
 Guest
2016 Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Hysterical Woman Self
2016 Stand Up Central - Series 2
  1. E4 - Episode Four
 Guest
2016 Jest A Minute - Machynlleth 2016
  1. Jest A Minute at the Machynlleth Comedy Festival
 Guest
2016 @elevenish
  1. E7 - Episode Seven
  2. Special - The Bestish Bits
 Writer
2016 @elevenish
  1. E7 - Episode Seven
  2. Special - The Bestish Bits
 Ensemble Actor
2016 The News Quiz - Series 89 Writer (Additional Material)
2015 Crackanory - Series 3
  1. E5 - The Truth About Suz & The Vexed Message
 Writer
2015 Gein's Family Giftshop Present... - Series 1 Writer
2015 Kiri Pritchard-McLean Is Trying Self
2015 All Killa No Filla Live Self
2015 Gein's Family Giftshop: Volume 2 Self
2015 The Machynlleth Comedy Festival - 2015
  1. Machynlleth Stand-Up Show 2015
 Guest
2014 The Leak - Series 1
  1. E6 - Episode Six
 Guest
2014 BBC New Comedy Award - 2014
  1. E8 - London Heat 2
 Self
2014 Gein's Family Giftshop: Volume 1 Self
2013 BBC New Comedy Award - 2013
  1. E5 - Heat 5
 Self
2013 Gein's Family Giftshop Self
2013 Pete Otway and Kiri Pritchard-Mclean Self
1988 Comic Relief
  1. E17 - Comic Relief 2019
 Self

Non-comedy TV and film credits may be found here:
Kiri Pritchard-McLean on IMDb

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