Andi Osho was born
on 27 January, 1973 in Plaistow, London, of Nigerian parents. She was in
television production and then, in 2006, she took up stand-up comedy, working
as a receptionist to support her set practice in the evenings.
Osho Nabs a Man for a Date after the Edinburgh Festival
An Edinburgh Festival first was Osho's idea of dragging a man out of the audience each night for a date. In an interview for Edinburgh Festivals Magazine, she admitted to having been "dateless" for three years - and the very first man she picked out of the audience for a date stood her up. She admits her irritation with disarming candour, and one wonders how any man could be so crass as to reject this delightfully funny woman. "But it's not bad to be single," she says, referring to her show All the Single Ladies.
Osho explains how she got started on stand-up. "I'd always wanted to do stand-up and I thought, I'll give it a go and see what happens." Sometimes things did not look so promising. She would go to a gig and there'd be eight people there - but six of them were comedians. A common experience for comedians when they are just starting, but there is a tremendous atmosphere of support and fellow-feeling on most comedy circuits.
Like all good comedy, her material is tight, the one-liners almost tripping over one another in their sharpness and their cutting-edge relevance to today's modern world. She loves to parody race discrimination by turning it around.
Andi Osho - Comedy Genius
In 2007, Osho won the prestigious "Nivea Funny Woman Award," founded in 2003 by Lynne Parker especially for woman comics. She has also appeared in a number of popular television shows, for example, Mock the Week, Tonightly and Stand Up For the Week.
Accolades for Osho's work come thick and fast: "Hilarious" ~ The Sun; "Blazing a Trail," ~ The Telegraph; "Her work pivots on her perfect delivery," ~ The Guardian; "Warm and witty," ~ The Independent.
The last word goes to The Observer: "Andi Osho sends you out of the show feeling uplifted."
You can also find clips for Andi Osho on Youtube.com
Sources:
Osho Nabs a Man for a Date after the Edinburgh Festival
An Edinburgh Festival first was Osho's idea of dragging a man out of the audience each night for a date. In an interview for Edinburgh Festivals Magazine, she admitted to having been "dateless" for three years - and the very first man she picked out of the audience for a date stood her up. She admits her irritation with disarming candour, and one wonders how any man could be so crass as to reject this delightfully funny woman. "But it's not bad to be single," she says, referring to her show All the Single Ladies.
Osho explains how she got started on stand-up. "I'd always wanted to do stand-up and I thought, I'll give it a go and see what happens." Sometimes things did not look so promising. She would go to a gig and there'd be eight people there - but six of them were comedians. A common experience for comedians when they are just starting, but there is a tremendous atmosphere of support and fellow-feeling on most comedy circuits.
Like all good comedy, her material is tight, the one-liners almost tripping over one another in their sharpness and their cutting-edge relevance to today's modern world. She loves to parody race discrimination by turning it around.
Andi Osho - Comedy Genius
In 2007, Osho won the prestigious "Nivea Funny Woman Award," founded in 2003 by Lynne Parker especially for woman comics. She has also appeared in a number of popular television shows, for example, Mock the Week, Tonightly and Stand Up For the Week.
Accolades for Osho's work come thick and fast: "Hilarious" ~ The Sun; "Blazing a Trail," ~ The Telegraph; "Her work pivots on her perfect delivery," ~ The Guardian; "Warm and witty," ~ The Independent.
The last word goes to The Observer: "Andi Osho sends you out of the show feeling uplifted."
You can also find clips for Andi Osho on Youtube.com
Sources:
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Live at the Apollo, BBC One, Friday 25 November 2011.
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