Carys Eleri
- Welsh
- Stand-up comedian, writer, producer, composer and actor
Press clippings
Review: The Best of Wales Comedy Gala at Wales Millennium Centre
The evening was packed full of laughs with some of Wales' finest comics including Mike Bubbins, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Tudur Owen, Carys Eleri, Leroy Brito and Anna Thomas.
Rhys Gregory, Wales24 7, 24th October 2022Carys Eleri interview
"I was performing comedy at the Edinburgh Festival when I was told my dad had died, then my best friend died as well."
Nino Williams, Wales Online, 19th December 2021Laugharne Weekend Festival saved
This year's Laugharne Weekend Festival will go ahead as planned. There was a risk that the future of the unique South Wales Festival was in jeopardy following the shock withdrawal of an annual £20,000 Arts Council grant, but a sucessful crowdfunding campaign and support from the Welsh Assembly has saved the day. The UK's quirkiest arts festival, running from 27 - 29 March, celebrates 13 years with leading artists, comedians, musicians, authors and poets.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 4th March 2020Live review: Lovecraft (Not The Sex Shop In Cardiff)
After hugging everyone on entry, Carys Eleri informs us at the very start of the show that she's in the love business, that she feels this way about every single one of us, and how, admittedly coincidentally, her name actually translates in to English as "Love Goddess". All of which might sound like a slightly hippyish beginning to a comedy show, but this is actually a heavily science based hour with a hint of Nick Hornby's High Fidelity as Eleri tells us about past relationships while all the time explaining what was going on with her body, and more notably her brain, at the time.
Alex Finch, Comedy To Watch, 28th February 2020First online Welsh language comedy platform launched
S4C has today launched what it claims is the world's only online Welsh language comedy platform. The broadcaster will use the platform to commission up-and-coming talent to create short-form content such as stand-up, satire, sketches, mini-sitcoms and musical numbers for YouTube and Facebook.
Chortle, 11th June 2019Loneliness: Comedian opens up on why she felt alone
When broadcaster and comedian Carys Eleri realised she was lonely, she could think of only one way to deal with it - turn it into a one-woman show. Here Carys, from Cardiff, explains why she believes loneliness affected her and how it made her feel.
Carys Eleri, BBC, 4th April 2019