About
Charlie is an award winning stand-up comedian and writer, host, MC & speaker.
LGBTQ New Comedian of the Year 2019. So You Think You’re Funny & Funny Women Awards runner up 2019.
Charlie has performed on BBC Asian Network Live, BBC’s No Country for Women Podcast, Comedy Central in Rhod Gilbert’s Growing Pains, ITV2’s Stand Up Sketch Show & BBC 2’s Apprentice You’re Fired.
A talented and accomplished writer Charlie was chosen to feature in Charlie Brooker’s writers room for Cunk & Other Humans 2019, The BAFTA nominated AntiViral Wipe 2020, Death to 2020 & 2021 for Netflix and BBC’s Emmy nominated Cunk on Life 2024. She has written for the C4 Election night special, 8 out of 10 cats, Hypothetical, Newsjack, The Now Show, Have I Got News For You, Horrible Histories, Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back, Frankie Boyle’s New World Order, Stand Up to Cancer (C4) Kiri Pritchard-McLean’s Best Medicine (R4) Season 1 and 2 and Mawaan Rizwan’s BAFTA winning Juice (BBC).
Charlie has been published in: Tangled Roots: Real Life Stories from Mixed Race Britain. She currently writes on all things travel, nature, gardening and Decolonial perspectives on healing for our times, at her Medium and Substack.
Charlie has written multiple original comedy/comedy-drama scripts and won two New York Festivals Radio Awards for ‘Best Writing’ & ‘Best Regularly Scheduled Comedy Programme’ for her writing contributions to ‘Rockanory’ an original series for Absolute Radio with Unusual Productions.
Charlie was a regular MC/host and spoke and gigged all across the country. She was the host of a large scale touring work in collaboration with artist Amartey Golding in a show called ‘Whose Anthem is it anyway?’ with a full live band, exploring an alternative collective national anthem for England with the public using a voting app.
She also co-hosted an Audible original podcast series exploring evidence-based solutions to improving wellbeing & mental health with anthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota called ‘Happiness and how to get it.’ Because her preferred title ‘Despair and how to release its death grip.’ wasn’t “a viable option.” And hosted a podcast for the Tate Modern gallery called ‘The Art of Comedy.’
Charlie has been in the arts in the UK since her early teens, training at Circomedia in Bristol and setting up her own dance company Dark Island Dance where she choreographed and led commercial performances for festivals & large scale events, as well as community dance in care homes and specialist schools for those with disabilities.
Since experiencing post Covid chronic illness Charlie is currently re-evaluating her approach to live work and has been moving at a gentler pace on the local spoken word and poetry circuit. She is currently working on her first book.
ACCOLADES
Runner up
So you think you're funny 2019 Funny women awards 2019
WINNER
LGBTQ+ New comedian of the year 2019
Finalist
pride's got talent 2018
LEICESTER SQUARE NEW COMEDIAN AWARD 2018
LIVE AT BBC
BBC iPlayer & BBC Sounds
AS SEEN ON RHOD GILBERT'S growing pains
"We're in fashion now, aren't we brown ladies? 🙋🏽♀️ No one wants white people anymore"
— BBC Asian Network (@bbcasiannetwork) May 2, 2019
Watch more of @CGdoescomedy's hilarious and no messin' #ANComedy performance on @BBCiPlayer ➡️ https://t.co/RPxowSvDgo pic.twitter.com/3RPqueS1tX
Baahhhh what is happening!? Worst day ever & then this mad night where I win this even though all the acts were sublime. Feeling dead grateful & super chuffed. Massive thanks to everyone at Comedy Bloomers & all the fab acts in the final. Woweeee!??? 🤪x All the love CG. pic.twitter.com/SucPIQqHWn
— CharlieGeorgeComedy (@CGdoescomedy) May 22, 2019
You've got so many killer lines that I want on a t-shirt and a piece of driftwood in my flat. Winning this competition really is only the beginning for you..."
This accounts for the fact that from her eyebrows to her mouth she has complete control over her body movements and uses them to full comic effect. She's just fun to watch! With dark, brilliantly-timed humour."
regular mc/host
“Charlie George (the host) is super warm & will make you laugh like a hyena!” – Diva Magazine.
We have been very impressed with the quality of her work and dedication through Soho Theatre Young Company and look forward to supporting her through various projects ahead."
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