Ruby Wax
- 71 years old
- American
- Actor, writer and script editor
Press clippings
Brits heading to the 2025 Melbourne comedy festival
The line-up has been announced for next year's Melbourne International Comedy Festival, with a number of British-based comics heading down under.
Chortle, 9th December 2024Ruby Wax review
Ruby Wax's latest show, I'm Not As Well As I Thought I Was, is as visceral as it is hilarious, following Ruby's deeply personal quest to find inner peace through an external to-do list that backfires - yet at the same time miraculously reconnects her with herself.
Katy Davies, Entertainment Focus, 1st October 2024Ruby Wax review
All in all, a successful night. Ruby is trying to make sense of our world. And while doing so, she takes the audience along for the ride. A ride that makes you laugh and then makes you think.
Ian C Douglas, Leftlion, 30th May 2024The night OJ Simpson pretended to stab me with a banana, by Ruby Wax
The presenter spent 17 manic hours with the disgraced NFL star. In a succession of disturbing moments his Psycho re-enactment may not even make the top three.
Ruby Wax, The Sunday Times, 13th April 2024Ruby Wax: I'm Not As Well As I Thought I Was review
This one-woman play aims to dramatise Wax's globe-trotting spiritual quest but gets sidetracked into anecdote.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 22nd November 2023Ruby Wax: 'In Rishikesh with Pattie Boyd, the locals came out to sing'
The Chicago-born comedian spent her childhood holidays in Miami and Copacabana. She moved to England in the 1970s 'to marry a Beatle' but now likes to travel with purpose.
Danny Scott, The Sunday Times, 5th November 2023Ruby Wax: I'm Not As Well As I Thought I Was review
A brave new one-woman show about mental illness, migration and being ok with not being ok.
Danielle Goldstein, Jewish Renaissance, 25th September 2023When Ruby Wax stalked the Beatles
The comedian reveals how she failed at ballet and came to England to marry Paul McCartney.
Liam Kelly, The Times, 17th September 2023Ruby Wax offers a confused but charismatic journey around mental health
I'm Not As Well As I Thought I Was is both a search for meaning and a fight for survival.
Tim Harding, The Telegraph, 15th September 2023Ruby Wax review
Battling depression and finding enlightenment (with jokes)
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 15th September 2023