Mark Simmons

Winner of Dave’s Funniest Joke of the Fringe 2024, Mark Simmons is back on tour with his new show Jest to Impress – delivering another hour of back to back finely crafted gags from the master of one liners.

His debut tour, Quip Off the Mark, lasted three years, with over 215 dates across the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand and sold over 25,000 tickets. As well as picking up the Joke of the Fringe Award alongside Danny Ward, he also won the Victoria Wood Panel Prize at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, and won the Comic’s Comic of the year in 2022.

Mark has previously appeared in ITV’s Out There, Mock The Week, BBC Radio 4Extra Stands Up, a Channel 4 pilot starring alongside Bridget Christie, as well as BBC3’s One For The Road. Mark also presents his popular podcast, Jokes With Mark Simmons, where he invites a fellow comic (including Rob Beckett, Milton Jones, and Seann Walsh) to discuss jokes that they’ve written but just haven’t worked, and see if there is a way to salvage them or should they simply be thrown on the rubbish heap.