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Kate Smurthwaite
Kate Smurthwaite is a British comedian and political activist. She has appeared on British television and radio as a pundit, offering opinion and comment on subjects ranging from politics to religion.
She performs stand-up around the UK and overseas including an annual comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe and is a patron of Humanists UK, formerly known as the British Humanist Association, and vice chair of Abortion Rights UK.
Smurthwaite studied mathematics at Lincoln College, Oxford, from 1994 to 1997. After leaving university, she worked in London and Japan as an investment banker, specifically within convertible bond research for UBS Warburg.
Smurthwaite began performing comedy in early 2004. In 2008, she was a finalist in the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year competition.
Smurthwaite has toured internationally, appearing in Stockholm, Sweden, and Tampere, Finland,[citation needed] and has appeared several times at the Malmö Comedy Festival in Sweden.
In 2011, Smurthwaite toured as support for Shazia Mirza and also returned to the town she grew up in and opened the Bury St Edmunds Fringe festival. She performs at many charitable benefit shows such as the No More Page Three show at the Harold Pinter Theatre, and appears at regular benefits for Sex Appeal at the Bloomsbury Theatre and for Eaves Housing at Soho Theatre and Bloomsbury Theatre. She also regularly performs at the Humanists UK annual convention.
Smurthwaite also teaches stand-up comedy through the City Academy in London.
Smurthwaite was a morning show presenter on Radio Jackie in 2006, and co-presented a show on Leith FM during the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe. She appears regularly with Jason Mohammad on BBC Radio Wales's lunchtime phone-in show and as part of BBC London's Lady Lounge with Kath Melandri. In May 2012, Smurthwaite recorded a 15-minute programme for the BBC Radio 4 series Four Thought about sexism in comedy.
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Kate Smurthwaite
Kate Smurthwaite is a British comedian and political activist. She has appeared on British television and radio as a pundit, offering opinion and comment on subjects ranging from politics to religion.
She performs stand-up around the UK and overseas including an annual comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe and is a patron of Humanists UK, formerly known as the British Humanist Association, and vice chair of Abortion Rights UK.
Smurthwaite studied mathematics at Lincoln College, Oxford, from 1994 to 1997. After leaving university, she worked in London and Japan as an investment banker, specifically within convertible bond research for UBS Warburg.
Smurthwaite began performing comedy in early 2004. In 2008, she was a finalist in the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year competition.
Smurthwaite has toured internationally, appearing in Stockholm, Sweden, and Tampere, Finland,[citation needed] and has appeared several times at the Malmö Comedy Festival in Sweden.
In 2011, Smurthwaite toured as support for Shazia Mirza and also returned to the town she grew up in and opened the Bury St Edmunds Fringe festival. She performs at many charitable benefit shows such as the No More Page Three show at the Harold Pinter Theatre, and appears at regular benefits for Sex Appeal at the Bloomsbury Theatre and for Eaves Housing at Soho Theatre and Bloomsbury Theatre. She also regularly performs at the Humanists UK annual convention.
Smurthwaite also teaches stand-up comedy through the City Academy in London.
Smurthwaite was a morning show presenter on Radio Jackie in 2006, and co-presented a show on Leith FM during the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe. She appears regularly with Jason Mohammad on BBC Radio Wales's lunchtime phone-in show and as part of BBC London's Lady Lounge with Kath Melandri. In May 2012, Smurthwaite recorded a 15-minute programme for the BBC Radio 4 series Four Thought about sexism in comedy.
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