Darren Harriott
Darren Harriott is a British stand-up comedian from the Black Country in the West Midlands. He was nominated for the Best Newcomer Award and Best Show Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2017 and 2019 respectively.
Harriott has toured the UK with his shows ‘Visceral’ and ‘Good Heart Yute’, and regularly appears at comedy clubs across the country. His stand-up shows became the basis for his BBC Radio 4 series Darren Harriott’s Black Label.
Harriott has performed stand-up comedy on television shows Live at the Apollo, Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central, as well as appearing on television comedy panel shows such as Mock The Week, and Hypothetical, Radio appearances include BBC Radio 4 shows Best of the Fest and The Now Show, and BBC Radio 5 Live comedy sports panel show Fighting Talk. He is the host of Newsjack - Unplugged and Comedy of the Week on BBC Radio 4.
He appeared on Dave's Comedy Against Living Miserably, where he discussed the fact that his father was a drug addict/dealer who hanged himself in prison on 2 March 2000.Filmography
