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Jon Joel Richardson (born 26 September 1982)[1] is an English comedian. He is known for his appearances on 8 Out of 10 Cats and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and his work as co-host with Russell Howard on BBC 6 Music. He is the presenter of Jon Richardson: Ultimate Worrier, and also featured with his wife in the TV show Meet the Richardsons.

Jon Richardson
Birth name	Jon Joel Richardson
Born	(1982-09-26) 26 September 1982 (age 40) Lancaster, Lancashire, England
Medium	Stand-up comedy and writing
Spouse	Lucy Beaumont ​ (m. 2015)​
Children	1
Notable works and roles	8 Out of 10 Cats, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
Website	jonrichardsoncomedy.com

Biography

Richardson was born and raised in Lancaster, Lancashire, and attended Ryelands Primary School and Lancaster Royal Grammar School.[2] He left the University of Bristol after taking Hispanic Studies for a year and a half, and subsequently spent some time working as a chef.[3] He then decided to pursue a career in comedy, and lived with fellow comedians Russell Howard, Mark Olver and John Robins for a year in Bristol.[4]

Richardson entered and won his heat of the BBC New Talent Comedy Search in May 2003. He also reached the semi-finals of the Laughing Horse New Act of the Year competition in 2004.[5] Quickly developing throughout 2004, he was one of six acts to reach the final of the J2O Last Laugh Comedy Search. He marked the end of his first year in comedy with a performance at the Criterion Theatre in London's West End. Judges Jasper Carrott and Dave Spikey were both "extremely impressed" with Richardson's performance.

In 2006, Richardson appeared in The Comedy Zone at the Edinburgh Festival. He also completed a 60-date British and Irish tour with Alan Carr, and made an appearance on Paramount's The Comedy Store. In 2007, Spatula Pad (Richardson's first solo show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe) earned him a Best Newcomer nomination at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards.[6] Richardson won the 2008 Chortle Award for Best Breakthrough Act,[7] and performed Dogmatic (his second solo show) at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He later took this show around the country in his first solo tour. He appeared as a team captain in Simon Mayo's 2008 series Act Your Age on BBC Radio 4.

Richardson co-hosted a Sunday morning radio show on BBC Radio 6 Music with fellow comedian and friend Russell Howard, and after Howard left, he continued to present the show himself until 7 March 2010.

In early 2009, Richardson's show This Guy at Night was nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Awards main prize.[8] That year, he appeared on the BBC music quiz show Never Mind the Buzzcocks. He also appeared on Have I Got News for You in December 2009 and October 2010, and was a guest on David Mitchell's The Bubble.

Richardson appeared on the BBC Radio 5 Live show Fighting Talk in February 2010. He was curator of The Museum of Curiosity for its third series. On 21 March 2010, he presented a BBC Three programme about compulsions and strange habits, entitled Different Like Me. Richardson has performed at comedy festivals in Leeds, Guildford and Bristol, and has headlined university gigs for Off the Kerb and Avalon. He has also compèred in the French Alps, headlined in Barcelona, and performed a one-man show in Greece. In 2010 he also performed at the Melbourne Comedy Festival.[3]

Starting with the 11th series of Channel 4's panel show 8 Out of 10 Cats, Richardson took over from Jason Manford as a team captain. Filming for the series began in June 2011. It's Not Me, It's You!, Richardson's first book, was published during the same month. Later in 2011, he became a regular comic on the Channel 4 show Stand Up for the Week, which was hosted by Kevin Bridges during its second series. Upon Bridges's departure, Richardson took over as host, a role he left after series 4 in 2012. Since January 2012, he has also been a regular on Channel 4's 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

Richardson presented a 2012 documentary entitled A Little Bit OCD, in which he studied the lives of people diagnosed with OCD and worried that he might have the same condition; he was indeed revealed to exhibit symptoms of OCD, but did not show signs of the accompanying dysfunction. The show won the 2013 Mind Award in the documentary category.[9]

On 19 November 2012, Richardson released his first stand up DVD, Funny Magnet. The performance was recorded at the Apollo Theatre in Hammersmith on 9 September 2012. The DVD also features Richardson's set from Live at the Apollo and audio commentary with his housemate, comedian Matt Forde.

In December 2012, Channel 4 broadcast The Real Man's Road Trip: Sean & Jon Go West,[10] a two-part series in which Richardson and his 8 Out of 10 Cats colleague Sean Lock travelled to Louisiana to experience the local culture and lifestyle. The show was filmed in September 2012.

Richardson began Work in Progress shows in late 2013, and in 2014 took his new show Nidiot on the road culminating in a DVD of the same name.[11] In August 2013 he headlined the comedy stage at the V Festival.

Appearing on Radio 5's Fighting Talk on 11 January 2014, Richardson said his worst ever gig was a couple of months previously at Doncaster Dome. He claimed the initial smattering of applause quickly reduced through his time on stage.[12]

Richardson has presented two series of the Dave panel show Jon Richardson: Ultimate Worrier, in which he and his guests discuss their worries.

In 2020, Richardson appeared in the mockumentary sitcom Meet the Richardsons for UKTV's Dave and presented Channel Hopping With Jon Richardson on Comedy Central. The former is a documentary-style sitcom co-written and co-starring Richardson's wife Lucy Beaumont, with Lucy having to deal with an exaggerated version of Richardson's character,[13] whilst the latter is a weird TV clips show in the style of Clive James on Television, but with Richardson presenting and two other guests discussing the clips each week.[14][15][16][17][18] In 2020 Richardson also launched the podcast Jon Richardson and the Futurenauts with co-hosts Mark Stevenson and Ed Gillespie to discuss systemic societal problems and their solutions. The podcast has received overwhelming positive reviews.[19] The Arts Desk remarked "without making light of [the subject matter], Richardson and Co find the funny."[20]

Personal life

Richardson lived in Swindon for seven years,[21] then in Surbiton, London, with fellow comedians Matt Forde and Danny Buckler. He also lived with comedians John Robins and Russell Howard.[4] In a 2012 interview with Woman magazine, he mentioned he had bought a house in the Lake District for his mother.[22] He is a vegan[23] and supporter of Leeds United. In July 2019 Richardson mentioned on BBC1's Saturday Kitchen Live that he had moved across to West Yorkshire, Calder Valley, from Lancashire.[24]

Richardson married comedian Lucy Beaumont in April 2015; the pair were introduced by mutual friend Roisin Conaty and dated for about two years prior to marriage. Their first child, a daughter named Elsie Louise, was born in September 2016.[25][26]

Richardson has explored whether he has OCD, concluding that he instead has obsessive-compulsive personality disorder;[27] this was the subject of his Edinburgh Festival Fringe show Spatula Pad.[28][29] In 2018, Richardson told Radio Times that he had been to counselling for six months, calling it "an immensely positive step". Saying "I wish I'd done it sooner", Richardson said "acknowledging there's a problem is the best thing" and recommended counselling to "anyone who's even mildly upset about anything".[30]

Filmography

Television and radio

Year	Title	Notes
Unknown	After Hours	Documentary
2005	The Henry Kelly Show
	Live at the Comedy Store
	Steve Lamacq's Roundtable	BBC 6 Music
	Most Annoying Pop Moments: We Hate to Love
	Comedy Shuffle	Appeared in three sketches entitled 'Fearing the Worst'
	4 Stands Up
	Out to Lunch
	It's Debatable
	Never Write Off the Germans
2006–2008	The Russell Howard Show	BBC 6 Music[31]
2007	28 Acts in 28 Minutes	BBC Radio 4
2008–2010	The Jon Richardson Show
2009	Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow
	Walk on the Wild Side	Voice only[32]
2009–2010	Never Mind the Buzzcocks
2009–2011	Have I Got News for You
2010	The Bubble
	Spicks and Specks
	Grouchy Young Men
	Different Like Me
	The Vote Now Show
	Richard Bacon's Beer & Pizza Club
	The Museum of Curiosity
	Act Your Age	Team captain
	8 Out of 10 Cats	Guest
2010–2011	Fighting Talk
2011	Stand Up for the Week
	The Graham Norton Show
2011–2015	8 Out of 10 Cats	Team captain
2012–present	8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown	Team captain
2012	Comedy World Cup
	A Little Bit OCD
	The Real Man's Road Trip: Sean & Jon Go West
2013	Room 101	Guest
2013–2018	Would I Lie to You?	Guest
2014	Jon Richardson Grows Up
2016	Taskmaster	Contestant
2016–2017	The One Show	Guest presenter; 4 episodes
2018–present	Jon Richardson: Ultimate Worrier	Presenter
2019	Comedians Watching Football with Friends[33]
	The Great Celebrity Bake Off for SU2C	Contestant[34]
	Saturday Kitchen	Guest[35]
2020	Meet the Richardsons
	Channel Hopping With Jon Richardson
	The Jonathan Ross Show	Guest[36]
	The Last Leg	Guest[37]
	Saturday Morning with James Martin	Guest[38]
	8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown Christmas Special 2020	Team captain[39]
	Kevin McCloud's Rough Guide to the Future
2021	Jon & Lucy's Christmas Sleepover	Co-host with Lucy Beaumont[40]
2022	Jon Richardson: Take My Mother-in-Law	Presenter[41]

Stand-up DVDs

Year	Title
2012	Funny Magnet
2014	Nidiot
2018	Old Man - Live[42]

Edinburgh Festival Fringe credits

Year	Title	Notes
2005	Big Value Early Show	Served as compère
2006	The Comedy Zone
2007	Spatula Pad	Nominated – Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer
2008	Dogmatic
2009	This Guy at Night	Nominated – Edinburgh Comedy Award[43]
2010	Don't Happy, Be Worry
	GIT	With Dan Atkinson and Lloyd Langford
2011	It's Not Me, It's You!

References

External links

• Official website
• Jon Richardson at IMDb
• 2010 personal column in The Guardian

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