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Olaf Falafel
Comedian and a children's author From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Olaf Falafel is a comedian and children's author. Falafel illustrates his own books and is the creator and presenter of Art Club, an online art channel for children.[2] He has been a stand-up comedian since 2012[3] and is known for posting humorous videos on Twitter.[4] His humour frequently involves puns and absurdity.[5][6]
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Falafel worked as an art director before becoming a comedian,[7] and came up with his stage name as part of a workshop at the Tringe Festival, a comedy festival in Tring.[8]
In 2014, he was nominated for the Laughing Horse Comedy Club's New Act of the Year competition.[9] In 2017 he was included in both The Guardian's and The Telegraph's rundowns of the funniest jokes of the Edinburgh Fringe.[10][11] In 2018 Falafel was in Dave channel's, The Mirror's, The Evening Standard's, The Scotsman's and i News's rundowns of the top jokes of the Edinburgh Fringe[12][13][14][15][16] and won an award for his festival poster.[17]
Falafel secured a three-book contract with HarperCollins in 2016, after asking for a publisher to approach him in a tweet.[7]
In 2019, Falafel made headlines by winning the Best Joke Of The Fringe.[18] He took the title with the gag: "I keep randomly shouting out 'Broccoli' and 'Cauliflower' – I think I might have florets".
In 2020, Falafel signed a two-book deal with Walker books to illustrate Unleash Your Creative Monster[19] a "funny and informative" guide to creative writing.
In 2021, off the back of his Art Club YouTube videos,[20] Falafel signed a two-book deal with Puffin to create his first middle grade chapter books called Trixie Pickle Art Avenger[21] about a child who becomes their school's version of Banksy.
In August 2022, Falafel had two jokes in the Best Joke of the Edinburgh Fringe Top Ten list.[citation needed]
In 2023 Falafel's picture book Blobfish won The Society Of Authors Queen's Knickers Award,[22] and the Federation of Children's Book Groups' Children's Book Award,[23] and was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Children's Writing on Nature and Conservation.[24]
In March 2024 Falafel won 'Best Kids Show' at the Leicester Comedy Festival, for his show 'Olaf Falafel's Stupidest Super Stupid Show (Yet)'. [25] Falafel also illustrated the map and provided the narration of penguin facts for a "Penguin Parade" sculpture trail in London, exhibited between November 2024 and January 2025.[26][27][28]
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Live Shows
- 2015 – Expect the Unexporcupine (with Michael Stranney)[29]
- 2016 – Olaf Falafel and the Cheese of Truth[30]
- 2017 – The Marmosets of My Mind[31]
- 2018 – There's no I in Idiot[32]
- 2019 – Olaf Falafel Presents Knitting With Maracas
- 2022 – Olaf Falafel's Super Stupid Show (family friendly show)
- 2022 – Olaf Falafel STOAT
- 2023 – Olaf Falafel's Super Stupid Show 20% More Stupider (family friendly show)
- 2023 – Look What Fell Out Of My Head
Books
- 2017 – Old Macdonald Heard a Parp
- 2017 – Father Christmas Heard a Parp
- 2018 – Old Macdonald Heard a Parp from the Past[33]
- 2019 – It's One Giant Leek For Mankind[34]
- 2021 – Unleash Your Creative Monster[19]
- 2022 – Trixie Pickle Art Avenger[21]
- 2022 – Blobfish[35]
- 2023 – Trixie Pickle Art Avenger - Toxic Takedown[36]
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