Awards Hosts

multi award winning laconic Frenchman whose dry wit, bawdy chansons and exquisite sex poetry have made him a star from Roubaix to Melbourne via London and back again.

Marcel Lucont

Former winner of the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year. Following sell out tours at the Edinburgh Festival, he has supported Jack Whitehall on his UK & Ireland arena tour

Tom Lucy

Joanna is an actress, presenter, author and political campaigner with a long and distinguished screen career but possibly best known for playing Patsy Stone in Absolutely Fabulous

Dame Joanna Lumley DBE FRGS

Chortle Best Newcomer nominee just eight months after her first stand-up, writer and presenter Nat took her debut stand up show to Edinburgh in 2010 and has written and starred in Girl Friday on Channel 4.

Nat Luurtsema

Trish Lynch is an experienced journalist, presenter and voiceover artist. She has presented a variety of programmes for Sky Travel, The Travel Channel and CNN. In the corporate market she is a popular presenter and host.

Trish Lynch

Elf Lyons is an award winning comedian, actor and writer. She is known for her distinctive and unique voice and mixes stand-up, clowning, drag and astute social commentary to create surreal comedy spectacles on stage.

Elf Lyons

Zoe is a multi talented stand up comedian, actor, and writer, who has achieved cult status in all three disciplines with numerous awards to her name

Zoe Lyons

South African born Motsi is best known in the UK as an exuberant judge on BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing but is well known around the world, especially in Germany, as a professional dancer and entreprenuer; a role model for aspiring young talent.

Motsi Mabuse

Oti Mabuse is a South African talent show judge, television presenter and Latin dance champion.

Oti Mabuse

Christopher Macarthur-Boyd is considered the future of Scottish comedy. Born and bred in Glasgow, Christopher has performed stand-up internationally everywhere from downtown Toronto to the Perth and Adelaide Fringe Festivals in Australia.

Christopher Macarthur-Boyd

Formerly an accountant, Fred is now one of Scotland's best-loved comedians. He has regularly performed at the Edinburgh Fringe and toured with his own stand up show. He's appeared on 'Have I Got News For You' and 'The Newsquiz', and co-hosted the hugely popular show 'McCoist and MacAulay' north of the border.

Fred MacAulay

Jamie is an award-winning stand-up comedian, writer, actor and voiceover artist who also happens to be blind

Jamie MacDonald

Renowned Investigative Journalist, Broadcaster and Criminologist. He is Europe's best known reporter, and has worked for all the UK broadcasters, most famously ITV and the BBC where he has won awards for his outstanding and often dangerous work. He has many stories of working undercover and tales of death threats.

Donal MacIntyre

Lewis is an Actor, Comedian and impressionist, best known for Radio 4’s Dead Ringers. His acting credits include Netflix’s ‘The Crown’, ITV’s ‘Endeavour’, BBC’s ‘Zapped’ and C4’s ‘Toast of London’.

Lewis Macleod

Alex is a BAFTA nominated actor and qualified Barrister; best known for his roles as Julius Nicholson in the BBC’s ‘Thick Of It’ and Neil’s Dad in the Channel 4 comedy ‘The Inbetweeners'; a highly effective after dinner speaker and conference host.

Alex Macqueen