Joe Wilkinson

Joseph Roland Wilkinson (born 2 May 1975) is an English comedian, actor and screenwriter.

Three episodes of Show & Tell and the episode '2001' for My Funniest Year were written by him.

Wilkinson was involved in the BBC Three comedy show Live at the Electric as a member of the comedic double act Two Episodes of Mash with Diane Morgan.

It had been previously broadcast on BBC Radio 2.

He began his comedy career in 2004 and has supported Alan Carr and Russell Howard on tour.

Wilkinson started his career in 2004 at his local pub, which was holding an 'open mic' evening.

In 2006, Wilkinson won the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year.

Wilkinson was born to Stella and Brian Wilkinson and grew up in, Kent.

He has a brother Robert Wilkinson.

Since 2008, he has performed many stand-up shows, including the tour "Joe Wilkinson: My Mum's Called Stella and My Dad's Called Brian", and has appeared at venues such as the Edinburgh Fringe and the Bloomsbury Theatre.

Since 2010, Wilkinson has appeared in a number of television shows.

In 2010, he played various characters in the first series of Robert's Web.

He appeared on The Rob Brydon Show, The Wright Stuff, Show & Tell, Comedy Lab, My Funniest Year, and the television film England's Worst Ever Football Team.

He played a major role in Him & Her as Dan Perkins, the lonely, socially awkward neighbour to main characters Becky and Steve.

Wilkinson is a regular on popular British panel shows.

He has appeared on 8 Out of 10 Cats, Have I Got News for You, Mock the Week and Never Mind the Buzzcocks and has performed at a stand-up section of Russell Howard's Good News.

He has appeared in Miranda.

He has also made numerous appearances on television programmes such as Live at the Electric and has been touring solo since 2011.

He began appearing on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown in 2012, initially as Rachel Riley's assistant.

He has since gone on to become a frequent panellist or guest team captain.

He is also in the comedy duo Two Episodes of Mash, alongside Diane Morgan.

Wilkinson wrote three episodes in the first series of Anna & Katy, as well as an animated short in 2012, A Fishy Tale.

Since 2012, Wilkinson has made semi-regular appearances on the 8 Out of 10 Cats spin-off show 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

He generally participates in the show's latter half and occasionally acts as Rachel Riley's assistant.

He often appears in costumes, performs stunts and brings on special guests, and routinely refers to the show's regular model, Robert Deaton, (aka "Fabio"), as his half-brother.

In 2012, during the special episode of 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Deal or No Deal?, Wilkinson made a special appearance as the banker's assistant.

Wilkinson has performed two major tours: My Mum's Called Stella and my Dad's Called Brian and The Joe Wilkinson Experience.

Since 2014, Wilkinson has appeared as a resident comedian on the revived TV game show Celebrity Squares, hosted by Warwick Davis on ITV.

In 2014, Wilkinson appeared in a commercial for Hellmann's Mayonnaise with Sue Barker and Brian Blessed, and in 2015, Wilkinson began voicing ads for Hotels.com.

It returned for a second series in April 2015.

In June 2015, Wilkinson appeared in a live recording for the Pappy's Flatshare Slamdown.

From the beginning of the show, he was quite inebriated and had to be substituted with a member of the audience when he left to get himself another glass of wine.

In 2016, he starred in the Sky 1 series Rovers which he co-wrote with David Earl.

He was also a contestant on the second series of Dave comedy panel show Taskmaster.

The episode was published in August 2017.

In 2019 Wilkinson won a celebrity special version of The Great British Bake Off (for Stand Up to Cancer UK).

In 2019, Wilkinson appeared as Jeffrey in the first and third series of the Netflix original series Sex Education, and featured in Ricky Gervais' comedy-drama After Life as "Postman Pat", the incompetent and nosey postman of the main character's street.

In November 2019 he starred in the three-part Gold sitcom The Cockfields, which he co-wrote with David Earl.

Wilkinson plays Simon, who takes his girlfriend Donna (Diane Morgan) to meet his family at their home on the Isle of Wight for the first time.

In 2019, Wilkinson took part in a special episode of The Great British Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer, with Georgia Toffolo, Jeremy Paxman and Sally Lindsay.