Geoff Norcott


Geoff Norcott is an English comedian, writer and political commentator who first performed in 2001, and has appeared on Mock the Week, Live at the Apollo and Question Time, and written for The Daily Telegraph, The Independent and Spiked. He claims to be the only outwardly Conservative Party voter on the British comedy circuit, and in 2017, was listed as one of the 'Top 100 Most Influential People on the Conservative Right'.

Early life

Norcott was raised in South London. His parents divorced when he was nine, and his mother moved with him and his elder sister to a council estate in Wimbledon.
He attended Southfields Secondary School, before moving to Rutlish School in Merton Park, the same school attended by Conservative Prime Minister John Major.
Norcott holds an English degree from Goldsmiths, University of London, and worked previously as an English teacher.

Early career

Norcott performed at his first comedy gig two days after 11 September 2001 attacks in New York, initially performing as a way of supplementing his teaching income.
In 2005, Norcott was approached to appear on radio and television, as a panellist and presenter on shows for Talksport, Nuts TV and the BBC.
He received an Operational Service Medal for five frontline tours entertaining the troops in Afghanistan.

Recent career

In 2013, Norcott was nominated for 'Best New Show' at the Leicester Comedy Festival for his show Geoff Norcott Occasionally Sells Out, about - among other things - the fact he was now a Conservative voter, which he then took to the Edinburgh Fringe.
He returned to the Fringe in 2015 with The Look of Moron, a further development of his voice as a political comic, and again in 2016 with Conswervative, which received wide political acclaim and a successful sold-out run.
In early 2017, Norcott made his first appearances on Question Time and as a regular on BBC Two's The Mash Report, both of which he continues to appear on to date.
Norcott took another show, Right Leaning, But Well Meaning, to the Fringe the same year to further acclaim, and the show was later recorded as a radio special for BBC Radio 4, airing in 2018.
In 2018, he made his first appearance on Live at the Apollo, and took a new show, Traditionalism on a UK tour.
Later the same year, Norcott appeared on Mock the Week for the first time, receiving an online backlash being the first openly Brexit voting comic to appear on the show.
He has also appeared on several UK political debate shows, including Politics Live and Daily Politics.
Norcott has written for a number of UK television shows, including A League of Their Own, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and Frankie Boyle's New World Order.
A 2019 appearance on Question Time prompted another online backlash for Norcott, after a clip of him calling out European Union President Donald Tusk went viral. The same year, he presented the BBC Two documentary How The Middle Classes Ruined Britain, in which he investigated issues like how some people 'gamed' the system to secure places in good schools, and accusations of social cleansing in housing.

Personal life

Norcott lives in Cambridgeshire with his wife, whom he married in 2004. They have one child. He describes himself as a 'right wing libertarian'

Live tours