Emma Sidi
- Actor, writer and stand-up comedian
Press clippings
Best of 2024: Comedy
Authentically good memories of the year.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 30th December 2024Starstruck stars Emma Sidi and Al Roberts announce pregnancy
Starstruck stars Emma Sidi and Al Roberts are having a baby. The married couple, whose characters also wed in Rose Matafeo's BBC Three sitcom, announced the news on social media, accompanying the release of a Christmas album from Roberts' sketch trio, Sheeps.
British Comedy Guide, 23rd December 2024Tim Harding's comedy diary
I have a soft spot for the kind of productions that appear at this time of year: often loose, slightly boozy festive offerings that only make sense in an end-of-term context.
Tim Harding, Chortle, 20th December 2024Comedians appearing on Christmas University Challenge
Jessica Fostekew, Jamie MacDonald, Emma Sidi and Debra Stephenson are to appear in the festive version of the quiz.
BBC, 4th December 2024Tim Harding's comedy diary
Emma Sidi brought her Fringe show Emma Sidi Is Sue Gray to the Soho Theatre, pushing her character comedy to its limit with a whole show dedicated to a single persona, the titular high-ranking bureaucrat who she plays as a kind of East End wide girl, turning parliamentary intrigues into Towie-coded gossip and drama seshes around the water cooler.
Tim Harding, Chortle, 11th November 2024Emma Sidi Is Sue Gray review
Character comedy at its best!
Stimpson, A Young(ish) Perspective, 1st November 2024Emma Sidi on bringing Sue Gray to life as a comedy character and getting the Taskmaster call-up
After a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe, actress and comedian Emma Sidi is taking her show, where she takes on the role of Partygate report author Sue Gray, on tour.
Ross Crae, The Sunday Post, 28th October 2024Radio 4 orders improv comedy Wing It, hosted by Alasdair Beckett-King
Alasdair Beckett-King is to host Wing It, an improvised comedy series for Radio 4, featuring Rachel Parris, Emma Sidi, Cariad Lloyd, Steen Raskopoulos, Kemah Bob, Amy Hoggart and members of the improv group Shoot From The Hip among others.
British Comedy Guide, 21st October 2024"Oh God I'm Sue Gray - don't, I'm cringing": comic Emma Sidi brings the embattled civil servant to the stage
After Starstruck and Taskmaster, the new project sees Sidi play a profane, lowbrow version of Keir Starmer's former chief of staff. She explains why her latest comedy creation is breaking-news proof.
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 18th October 2024Emma Sidi Is Sue Gray review
Starstruck and Taskmaster star Sidi's completely preposterous homage to the Downing Street chief of staff is pure joy.
Andrzej Lukowski, Time Out, 2nd October 2024