 Meryl (me) has been storming the UK, Irish, New
York and Barcelona comedy circuits for 10 years; thrilling, delighting and disturbing people on
the subjects of rice, shopping, breasts and dead TV chefs. A born and bred South Londoner, I have
been described as having a brave confessional style.
I have recently done 20s at clubs including Headliners( where I have
headlined), Screaming Blue Murder and Banana Cabaret, where I am a regular. I have 20's coming up
at clubs including Monkey Business and Hampstead Comedy Club. I performed in the Jack Dee show at
the Comedy Store and was picked by Karen Koren to appear in her "Midnight Show" at The
Gilded Balloon for the run of the Edinburgh Festival. A stong 20-40 minute act I have also
performed at corporate gigs, MCed ladies nights and hosted a number of pop concerts for approx
13,000 people!
I am also an accomplished broadcaster recently completing my comedy
series "The Hysterical Method Of Conception" for Radio 4. This self written self
performed serial appeared as part of the Woman's Hour strand and you can hear all the episodes on
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour . Tony Blair is a fan as is an old lady from Cheltenham who is
praying for me. I have more work for Woman's Hour coming up as one of their favourite columnists.
Previously I have been nominated for a prestigious Sony Radio Academy
Award 2003 (along with Johnny Vegas, Jonathan Ross and Mark Lamarr). I was nominated for Best
Breakfast Show (against Terry Wogan) and being the only woman in my category, then and since,... I
am officially STILL the best female breakfast radio presenter in the country!
I have also presented on TV appearing in the pilot, and many editions
of Liquid News for BBC.
"Fantastic" Jonathan Ross
"Meryl O'Rourke can find the disturbing side of
everything!" Eastmagazine
"Meryl throws her comedy around the room like a wrestler. See
Meryl, be impressed" Otherside Comedy Club
"The best female comic on the circuit, so good you don't have to
put her on in the middle!" Ian Cognito
"Meryl O'Rourke is f****** brilliant" Manchester Comedy
Forum (I'm not a coward it's just some people's email accounts won't allow F****** swearing!)
"The star of the gig (after Darius) was Meryl, she gave us the
perfect ending to a fab show" Official Darius website
"I'd rather see Meryl than any film" James Christopher,
film critic The Times
"Probably one of the best comics I've seen on the circuit. Her
material effortlessly glides through frivolous and weighty topics. All of which is delivered in an
uber honest and cynically upbeat way." Chortle
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