James Acaster
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James William Acaster (; born 1985) is an English comedian. As well as appearances on panel shows, he is known for the stand-up specials Repertoire, co-hosting the food podcast Off Menu and co-presenting the panel show Hypothetical. He has won four Chortle Awards. After attempting to pursue a music career as a drummer, Acaster began performing stand-up comedy in 2008. He drew acclaim for his stand-up shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where he has been nominated for Best Comedy Show five times. Four of his Fringe performances were adapted into the serialised Netflix specials Repertoire: "Recognise", "Represent", "Reset" and "Recap". His more recent special Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 (2019) won a Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award. As a presenter, Acaster began the food podcast Off Menu with Ed Gamble in 2018, and has co-hosted four series of the Dave panel show Hypothetical from 2019 onwards. He has appeared as a guest on panel shows such as Taskmaster. Acaster's radio appearances on Widdicombe's XFM show led to a recurring segment called Classic Scrapes, in which he shared mistakes that got him into unfortunate circumstances. He developed this into a book, James Acaster's Classic Scrapes (2017), which made The Sunday Times Bestseller List. Acaster's second book, Perfect Sound Whatever (2019), also became a Sunday Times Bestseller; it follows Acaster's life in 2017 via reviews of albums that were released in 2016. A tie-in podcast, James Acaster's Perfect Sounds, aired on BBC Sounds. His third book, James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media, was released in August 2022, becoming his third Sunday Times Best Seller.
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- I Don't Like Doing Stand-Up Comedy
- Straight Shot featuring Eldar Djangirov
- Last Resort
- Baby-Faced as Hell
- Easily as Brave as a Lifeguard
- No One Enjoyed That Tonal Shift
- My Unsold DVDs
- Sweet, Sweet Mary-Jane
- What a Nice Day at School
- You Don't Have To Keep On Doing This if You Don't Want To
- Run Out Here & Play the Drums
- Least of all, the God-Damn Dog
- Twist of all Twists...
- Hold on! I Have a Heckle
- Please. Stop Messing Around at the Comedy Show
- The Look of Eli
- Do None of You Appreciate Narrative?
- A Little Catch-Up Amongst Yourselves
- Rhys, This is Incredibly Awkward
- It Went Bad. End of Story
