London-born Irish comedian and podcaster who created several web shorts for RTE and sketches for Republic of Telly before writing and starring in her own RTÉ Two sitcom Nowhere Fast in 2017.

Alison Spittle cuts to the chase in her new show. There are no introductions, just a mission statement: “Lately I’ve been thinking about being fat.” What follows is a bracingly honest account of life ...

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Wheel Of Misfortune is a new comedy podcast launching on BBC Sounds on Tuesday 4 August, presented by comedians and friends Alison Spittle and Fern Brady. I'm delighted that I'm doing a BBC podcast ...

British Comedy Guide in association with Angel Comedy have announced the winners of The Comedians' Choice Awards 2025. Voted for by performers at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the victors were ...

Comedian Alison Spittle has spoken publicly about life as a ‘fat b***h’, (her own phrase), and how she has changed her life by taking the weight loss jab Mounjaro. Speaking to Brendan O’Connor on RTE ...

Alison Spittle remembers exactly where she was when she saw photos of Adele’s weight loss. It felt like a betrayal for the fat community: it was their 9/11, she deadpans. Then a life-threatening ...

Alison Spittle: Soup is not a show entirely dedicated to soup. But, fear not, soup fans - there are definitely bits about soup spread throughout, as Spittle admits that the show began as “an outlet ...

Irish comic Alison Spittle has started shooting her sitcom Nowhere Fast in Dublin. The series revolves around her twenty something character, Angela, returning to small town Ireland ‘to lick her ...

I try to sleep in because I work late, but the daylight will wake me, so I get up around 8.30. If you’re a comedian, your weekends are really your weekdays. What most people do on a Saturday, I do on ...

Following an award-winning sold-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe, Alison Spittle is touring "her finest show to date" (The Scotsman). A man told Alison to sit down and now she's doing a whole stand up ...