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Alasdair Beckett-King
British stand-up comedian (born 1984) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alasdair James Beckett-King[1] (born 31 March 1984) is a British stand-up comedian, video game writer, and actor from Durham.[3][4][5][6][7][8][excessive citations] He won the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year in 2017 and Chortle's Breakthrough Comedian of the Year in 2023.
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Early life
Beckett-King is half-Scottish.[9] He attended York St John University and graduated in 2012.[10][11] He holds an undergraduate degree in Film and Television Production and an MA in Journalism.[12]
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Beckett-King was listed among the finalists of So You Think You're Funny in 2013. He was also among the finalists of NATYS: New Acts of the Year Show in 2014.[13]
Beckett-King won the 2017 Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year.[14]
Beckett-King has appeared on The Comedian's Comedian with Stuart Goldsmith and Unforeseen Incidents.[15] He co-hosts the Loremen podcast with James Shakeshaft[16] and Eleanor & Alasdair Read That with comedian Eleanor Morton.[17]
Beckett-King created the adventure games Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy!, released in 2007, and Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet, released in 2016.[18][19] He also wrote the script for the adventure game Unforeseen Incidents, released in 2018.[20]
Since 2019, he publishes comedy sketches, which are written, acted, produced and animated by himself, on his YouTube channel.[21]
In 2022, Beckett-King voiced the character of "The Floater" in Doctor Who: Redacted, produced by BBC Studios.[22][23] He won the award for Breakthrough Act in the 2023 Chortle Awards.[24]
Beckett-King was an occasional panellist on Mock the Week, the British comic news quiz show, most notably appearing in the show's final ever episode.[25] He is the host of the BBC Radio 4 comedy series Wing It!
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