Geoff
Whiting is an established and popular compere, as well as a strong and versatile
act. He has appeared at the Edinburgh Festival, on television and radio and at
every notable comedy club in the UK. He is also an established TV warm up.
Comedy
Clubs & Appearances-London
The Comedy Store, The Comedy Café,
Jongleurs, Bound and Gagged, Up the Creek, Meccano, Red Rose Comedy Club, Screaming
Blue Murder, The Bearcat, Downstairs at the Kings Head and the Banana Balham
UK
& Others
Jongleurs (Manchester, Oxford, Watford, Southampton, Birmingham,
Portsmouth, Edinburgh and Bristol), The Krater Comedy Club (Brighton), Rawhide
(Liverpool), Just the Tonic (Nottingham), The Comedy Box (Bristol), The Comedy
Club (Chelmsford), The Cheeky Monkey Comedy Club (Birmingham) and St John's College
Summer Ball (Cambridge University). The Comedy Café (Amsterdam), The Bowler
(Paris), GPO (Galway, Ireland) and City Limits (Cork)
Corporate
Folio Hotels Managers Conference 2008, Balfour
Beatty Graduate Conference 2007, The Morgan Lewis Annual Dinner 2007, The Multiple
Hosts Ball, Bath 2007, The MacUser Awards 2006, BUPA (Brighton) 2006, Birmingham
Chamber of Commerce 2006, DHL Conference (Brussels) 2006, Unilever 2005, Yell
Ltd 2005, The DMA Annual Award Luncheon 2005, Beaconsfield Round Table 2005, Vibrant
2005, The Labour Conference Party 2004, O2 Awards 2004, The Bath Ball 2004, CIS
Insurance Awards 2003, Unipart Conference 2003, Bath Rugby Club Annual Dinner
2002, Tescos 2002, Toyota 2002, Thomas Cook 2002, RAF Uxbridge 2002 and the Federation
of Small Businesses UK 2001.
TV
Warm Up
The Peter Serafinowicz Show, BBC, 2007
That Mitchell and Webb
Look, BBC, 2007
Ponderland
with Russell Brand, Channel 4, 2007
Deal
or No Deal, with Noel Edmonds, Channel 4, 2006
Street Cred Sudoku, UKTV, 2006
The
Wire (pilot) ITV, Aug 2005
Friday Night Hero (pilot) Channel 4, Aug 2005
Balls
of Steel, Channel 4, July 2005
Bamboozle, E4, July 2005
'The Big Call '
ITV1 2005
'What's the Problem' with Anne Robinson BBC 1 2005
'Celebrity
Fame Academy' BBC, 2005
Come and Have a Go If You Think You're Smart Enough-BBC1
2004
Shooting Stars, BBC 2003
Dom Jolly BBC 2003
Trick Saturday, BBC
2002
Take the Mic, ITV Network 2001 & 2002
TV
Appearances
How to Get Your Dream Job, BBC 3 2006
The Interview, BBC
3 autumn 2005
Young Gifted & Broke, ITV Network 2001 (as the professional
comedian advising newcomers)
The Pleasure Guide, HTV 2001
Net. COMEDY, Carlton
World 2001
House of Fun, Meridian Television 2001
Radio
The
Apprentice, BBC Radio 5 2007
The Hawkesby and Jacobs Show – Talksport
2007
Fighting Talk – BBC Radio 5 2006
The Sunday Show – Talksport
2006
Comedy Cabaret – LBC Radio 2006
Regular Comedy Slot on Bristol
Uncovered, Star FM 2001- 2004
Saturday Night, LBC Radio 2003
Comedy Hour
with the Morning Crew, GWR FM Wiltshire 2001
Guest appearances on BBC Radio
York, BBC Radio Kent, BBC Radio Solent, BBC Radio Three Counties, BBC Radio Devon,
BBC Radio Gloucestershire
Edinburgh
Fringe
Get Up
Stand Up, at the Three Tuns 2006
The Phat Cave, Gilded Balloon Teviot 2005
The
Midnight Show, The Gilded Balloon 2001/2003
Late 'n' Live 2001
Critics
Response
"Geoff
Whiting takes the stage with consummate ease and works the audience like a miner
at the coal face, digging out nuggets of information to fuel his comedy."
- Independent on Sunday, August 2006
"Geoff
Whiting was the perfect compere. His lack of ego, his audience technique, and,
of course, some great material, were a perfect warm-up for the main-billed acts."
Funny.co.uk
"...a
master of the 'That's so True' type of humour. He ad-libbed brilliantly and hooked
the audience." Evening Standard
"...wonderfully
confident, highly entertaining..." Scene Magazine Bristol
'' skilful
stand-up '' Time Out Magazine
Press
Cuttings
"Master
of Mirth" Geoff Whiting, Time Out London, September 2004
"Whiting
Sets Up Agency" Mirth Control Management, The Stage, October 2002
"The
Booker Prize" Geoff Whiting & Mirth Control, main article Time Out,
August 2002
Geoff
Whiting, Comics
Choice Time Out, October 2001
