Biography
“Geoff Whiting takes the stage with consummate ease and works the audience like a miner at the coal face, digging out nuggets of information to fuel his comedy.” – Independent on Sunday
Geoff Whiting is an established and popular compere, as well as a strong and versatile act. He has appeared at the Edinburgh Festival, on television and radio and at every notable comedy club in the UK. He is also an established TV warm up.
He is one of only a handful of comics worldwide to have performed stand up comedy in a pod on the London Eye (for ‘The One Show’ BBC1) and was the first English Speaking comic to ever perform at Club 99 in Bucharest, Romania in 2010.
Geoff is now the resident MC for ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ contestant show case gigs at the Hen and Chickens in Islington each year, he has hosted these shows in front of the producers of BGT for the past two years.
He has also been the resident MC at the Guernsey Comedy Festival since it’s inception eleven years ago and no comic has appeared as often in Guernsey as him, on top of this he is also resident MC at Eden Comedy in Malta and has appeared on twelve shows to date as well as doing interviews on national radio there and hosting at corporate events too.
He appeared at The Edinburgh Festival 2017 and followed that with shows in Antwerp as well as working as MC at the Gibraltar Music Festival Comedy Stage. That summer he also played three shows in New York as well as then working as resident MC at the nine day Prague Comedy Festival in November.
He has appeared in 2018 already at shows in Germany, Hungary, Belgium, Austria, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Romania, Spain and Ireland as well as hosting shows across a wide range of top UK clubs. He has recently performed shows for the Tattershall Castle, The Covent Garden Comedy Club and The Komedia in Bath and in Brighton, upcoming appearances later this year will include shows in Italy, Luxembourg and Gurnsey.
He has supported Michael McIntyre, Harry Hill, Dara O’Briain, Omid Djalili, Lee Mack, Russell Howard, Lee Nelson, Russell Kane, Ross Noble, John Bishop, Rhod Gilbert, Milton Jones, Micky Flanagan, Sean Hughes, Arthur Smith, Reginald D Hunter, Tim Vine, Noel Fielding, Zoe Lyons, Hal Cruttenden and Lee Hurst.
