Micky Flanagan is one of the top stand-ups on the comedy circuit, and one of the UK's best-loved and bestselling comedians.
He started his professional comedy career in 1997, and in 2001 performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as one of four headliners in the Big Value Comedy Show. In 2003, he returned to Edinburgh to co-headline with Nina Conti, and four years later, he was nominated for an Edinburgh Comedy Award for his first full-length solo show What Chance Change?
Since then, he has guested on numerous television panel games including Mock the Week 8 Out of 10 Cats and The Big Fat Quiz, hosted the 2010 Royal Variety Performance (which saw him nominated for Best Breakthrough Act at the British Comedy Awards) and appeared on TV shows ranging from Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow and Live at the Apollo to Sky One's Detour de France and Thinking Aloud. On radio, he has been a panellist on The News Quiz, appeared on
