Mat Ewins

Mat Ewins is a British actor, writer and stand-up comedian.

His comedy shows are anarchic audiovisual experiences with multimedia features, including video clips and elements from computer games he programs himself.[1][2]

Life and career

Ewins studied at Bristol University where he was a member of sketch comedy troupe The Bristol Revunions.[3] He started doing stand-up in 1989 and debuted at the Edinburgh Festival in 2011.[4]

Stage

Ewins has performed various characters on The Bearpit Podcast (Podcast), a live comedy show set up as a fictional podcast.[5] Co-creators of the show and fellow performers were Lolly Adefope, Richard Gadd, Matt Winning, Fin Taylor and Adam Hess.[6]

He performed his solo show Adventureman 7, dubbed a ‘declaration of independence from seriousness’, at the 2017 Edinburgh Festival[7] and the Vault festival.[8] The show was nominated for Best Show at the 2017 Edinburgh Festival.[9][10][11][12]

He won Best Show at the Comedians' Choice Awards 2017.[13] He had also won the award in 2016 for his previous show Mat Ewins will make you a star.[14] Ewins was a Chortle Student Comedy Award finalist in 2009.[4][15][16]

His 2018 Edinburgh show was entitled What Sorry? My Mistake! The Doors Are Not Open; The Show Has Been Cancelled. Do Not Have Your Tickets Ready!,[17] followed in 2019 by Actually, Can I Have Eight Tickets Please?.[18]

Edinburgh Festival, solo shows
YearShow
2012Bruce Hammers' Bananapocalypse[19]
2013Mat Ewins: Once Upon a Time in the Jest[20]
2014Mat Ewins: The Six Million Dollar Ewins[21]
2015Mat Ewins: Day Job[22]
2016Mat Ewins: Mat Ewins Will Make You a Star[23]
2017Mat Ewins Presents Adventureman 7: The Return of Adventureman[24]
2018Mat Ewins: What Sorry? My Mistake! The Doors Are Not Open; The Show Has Been Cancelled. Do Not Have Your Tickets Ready![25]
2019Mat Ewins: Actually Can I Have Eight Tickets Please?[26]

Television and radio

In 2018, Ewins featured in BBC Three's stand-up comedy series Live from the BBC (series 3, episode 6).[27] He has appeared on BBC Radio 4[28] and on BBC Radio 4 Extra's Sabotage (series 2, episode 1).[29] In 2019, he was a guest on two episodes of the Channel 4 comedy show Harry Hill's Club Nite.[30]

On 26 November 2019, Ewins participated in the comedy night The Paddock which was live-streamed by Channel 4.[31][32]

Personal life

In 2016, Ewins was living in North London where he shared a house with fellow comedian Richard Gadd.[33]

gollark: Well, back when I was advertising it to new users, lots complained that they could not solve such a hard maths problem and stuff.
gollark: They complain lots.
gollark: Yes.
gollark: Though given that many people apparently can't even run the uninstaller thing most potatOS users probably can't manage bypassing even that.
gollark: When I say "XOR encryption" I mean "XOR everything with one fixed byte", i.e. basically not encryption.

References
  1. "Mat Ewins - Edinburgh Fringe 2017". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  2. Suleiman, Yasmin (2019-08-05). "Mat Ewins: Actually Can I Have Eight Tickets Please?". Edinburgh Festival. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  3. "Bristol Revunions". Theatre Bristol. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  4. "Mat Ewins answers 10 Edinburgh Fringe Questions - 2015 Edinburgh Fringe". British Comedy Guide. 2015-08-04. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  5. "The Bearpit Podcast Podcast: 3 star review by Jane Thompson". broadwaybaby.com. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  6. Bennett, Steve. "The Bearpit Podcast (Podcast) : Reviews 2014 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide". www.chortle.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  7. Logan, Brian (13 August 2017). "Mat Ewins review – declaration of independence from seriousness". The Guardian.
  8. "Mat Ewins' Adventureman is a sublime epic destined for fortune and glory".
  9. Premier. "Mat Ewins - 2017 Best Comedy Show Nominee". Edinburgh Comedy Awards.
  10. Logan, Brian (23 August 2017). "Edinburgh comedy awards: the nominees in full". The Guardian.
  11. "Our verdict on the Edinburgh Comedy Award nominations + the nominations in full". www.telegraph.co.uk.
  12. Armstrong, Stephen (27 August 2017). "Edinburgh Fringe comedy awards shortlist" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  13. Guide, British Comedy. "The Comedians' Choice Awards 2017 winners - 2017 Edinburgh Fringe - British Comedy Guide". British Comedy Guide.
  14. "Mat Ewins, Lolly Adefope and Bob Slayer win Comedians Choice Awards - 2016 Edinburgh Fringe - British Comedy Guide". British Comedy Guide.
  15. "Mat Ewins - Chortle Student Comedy Award Final", youtube.com, retrieved 2019-12-28
  16. "Bristol Revunions". Theatre Bristol. Retrieved 2018-05-29.
  17. Willis, Martin (2018-08-03). "Edinburgh Festival 2018: The top comedy shows to see". The Independent. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  18. Angus, Craig (2019-08-13). "Review: Mat Ewins: Actually Can I Have Eight Tickets Please?". Fest Magazine. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  19. Burgess, Marissa (2012-08-15). "Bruce Hammers' Bananapocalypse". Edinburgh Festival. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  20. Latimer, Andrew (2013-08-16). "Mat Ewins: Once Upon a Time in the Jest". Edinburgh Festival. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  21. McIntosh, Rowena (2014-08-22). "Mat Ewins: The Six Million Dollar Ewins". Edinburgh Festival. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  22. Bennett, Steve. "Mat Ewins: Day Job : Reviews 2015 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide". www.chortle.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  23. Black, Suzanne (2016-08-10). "Mat Ewins: Mat Ewins Will Make You a Star". Edinburgh Festival. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  24. Richardson, Jay (2017-08-26). "Comedy review: Mat Ewins Presents Adventureman 7: The Return of Adventureman". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  25. Murphy, Scott (2018-08-10). "Review: Mat Ewins: What Sorry? My Mistake! The Doors Are Not Open; The Show Has Been Cancelled. Do Not Have Your Tickets Ready!". The Wee Review - Scotland's arts and culture magazine. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  26. Hamill, Thomas (2019-08-13). "Edinburgh Fringe 2019 review: Mat Ewins - The Skinny". www.theskinny.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  27. "BBC Three - Live from the BBC, Series 3, Mat Ewins". BBC. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  28. "All the Edinburgh Comedy Award nominees interviewed!, Funny in Four - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  29. "BBC Radio 4 Extra - Sabotage, Series 2, Episode 1". BBC. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  30. "Harry Hill's Clubnite: Harry Hill's Clubnite - Episode Guide". Channel 4. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  31. 24 Unique Live Comedy Acts | Original Comedy from Channel 4: The Paddock, retrieved 2019-12-28
  32. "News: C4 To Live Stream New Comedy Talent Including Jordan Brookes, Mat Ewins, The Delightful Sausage, Olga Koch". Beyond The Joke. 2019-11-26. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  33. Maxwell, Dominic (2016-10-20). "How a victim of sexual abuse turned his awful experience into a hit show". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
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