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Jen Kirkman

Jen Kirkman

  • American
  • Actor and stand-up comedian

Press clippings

Line up announced for Women In Comedy Festival 2019

This October sees the return of the seventh annual Women in Comedy Festival.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 19th September 2019

Comics talk about their mental health for new campaign

Comedians Jen Kirkman, Jordan Carlos and Dave Chawner share advice with their younger selves in candid, new videos for The Child Mind Institute's #MyYoungerSelf mental health awareness campaign.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 28th May 2019

Jen Kirkman interview

'The thing that shouldn't be funny? Trump's off-the-cuff speeches'.

Harriet Gibsone, The Guardian, 26th January 2018

Interview: Rarely Asked Questions - Jen Kirkman

Acclaimed American stand-up Jen Kirkman is coming back to the UK.

Beyond The Joke, 20th January 2018

Comedians recall their first gigs

Shappi Khorsandi felt as if she'd walked on the moon. Isy Suttie watched a man change a dressing on a wound as she spoke. Omid Djalili fell off the stage. So how did the first gigs of Paul Merton, Susan Calman and other top comics go?

Chris Wiegand and Anna Menin, The Guardian, 1st August 2016

Review - Jen Kirkman at Latitude

Oh dear. Jen Kirkman is not having an easy time of Latitude.

Steve Bennett, Chortle, 17th July 2016

This week's new live comedy

Previews of Jen Kirkman, Stand Up For Labour and Ed Byrne.

James Kettle, The Guardian, 21st September 2013

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