Andrew Maxwell
Andrew performed his show The Lights Are On at the Edinburgh Fringe and was nominated for an Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Comedy Show for the second time.

He recently recorded BBC One's legendary comedy show LIVE AT THE APOLLO for the first time which aired on Friday 9th December. He appeared alongside host Rich Hall and fellow guest Mark Watson.

He joined the Sky One panel show WALL OF FAME earlier this year as a series regular alongside host David Walliams, fellow comic Jack Dee, Kate Garraway and Tamara Ecclestone. The series started on the 17th June and continued for 8 weeks.

Andrew also recently presented an authored documentary for BBC3, CONSPIRACY COACH TRIP: 9/11 (with Renegade Pictures) which aired around the 10 year anniversary of the events: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014gpjx

Andrew toured Ireland earlier this year and has performed at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, Kilkenny's Cat Laughs Festival and Dublin's Comedy Carnival and to sell-out crowds at Vicar Sreet in Dublin in 2011. He also took part in Comic Relief 2011's 24 HOUR PANEL PEOPLE challenge in a special version of BBC's MOCK THE WEEK.

Andrew released his third live DVD in Ireland in 2010 after a sell-out five night run at the Assembly Hall in Edinburgh in August 2010.

Andrew has won and been nominated for several awards including an Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show, a Time Out Live Award in the category of Best Stand-up, a Loaded Magazine Award for best stand-up and Chortle Award for best contribution to the live comedy circuit. He was also recently voted Best Irish Comedian by the public at the Entertainment.ie awards.

He has appeared on recent series of BBC’s HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU, ITV2'S CELEBRITY JUICE, the Dave Channel's ARGUMENTAL and BBC2's MOCK THE WEEK, cementing his reputation as one of the country’s most sought after comedians.

He was a regular on all series of RTE1's THE PANEL and he made it to the quarter finals of RTE's CELEBRITY BAINISTEOIR.

In 2008 Andrew filmed the one-off pilot CONFLICT REVOLUTION for BBC Northern Ireland. It was released as a DVD alongside a live recording of the 2008 Edinburgh show (in Ireland) and marks Andrew’s continued development and exploration of comedy as a way of crossing cultural, social and religious borders.

Andrew is a founder member of ALTITUDE, a comedy festival staged in the Alps every Spring. The next one is 26th - 31st March 2012 with Jimmy Carr and Frankie Boyle.

Andrew continues to dominate the live and festival circuits. Notable appearances have included several sell-out shows at the Edinburgh Festival, The Amnesty / Channel Four Secret Policeman's Ball (alongside Eddie Izzard, Chevy Chase and Dylan Moran - "Maxwell turned it around... he made us feel part of an event" THE TIMES), at the HBO US Comedy & Arts Festival in Las Vegas (alongside Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock), several sell-out runs in the main house of The Soho Theatre, Kilkenny Cat Laughs Festival, Glastonbury and the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival.

“One of the best comics around... A consummate raconteur” TIME OUT
"One of the most significant comedians working in the country today" THE INDEPENDENT
“A brilliant show... commands the audience's attention from start to finish” THE OBSERVER
“Fiercely funny and utterly invigorating” THE TIMES
"Ill-advised hedonism is rarely this politically well-informed or thought-provoking" THE SCOTSMAN