Adam Rowe (; born 11 January 1992) is an English

stand-up comedian Stand-up comedy is a performance directed to a live audience, where the performer stands on a stage and delivers humorous and satirical monologues sometimes incorporating physical acts. These performances are typically composed of rehear ...

and

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er from

Liverpool Liverpool is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the River Mersey, Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, north-west of London. With a population ...

Early life

Rowe was brought up in Dovecot and

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areas of

, England. Rowe attended Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School in

Knotty Ash Knotty Ash is an area of Liverpool, Merseyside, England, and a Liverpool City Council Ward. Historically in Lancashire, the population at the 2001 Census was 13,200, increasing to 13,312 at the 2011 Census. Knotty Ash is well known as the hom ...

, in which he details the anomalous quantity of murderers who attended the school in his academic year. Rowe started a maths degree at the

University of Liverpool The University of Liverpool (abbreviated UOL) is a Public university, public research university in Liverpool, England. Founded in 1881 as University College Liverpool, Victoria University (United Kingdom), Victoria University, it received Ro ...

but did not complete it in order to concentrate on performing comedy.

Career

Rowe was named Liverpool's Hot Water Comedy Club's Comedian of the Year in 2011, ahead of fellow comic Tony Carroll, who has since begun to host the ‘Hot Water Green Room Podcast’ with comic Jamie Hutchinson. Rowe's 2018

Edinburgh Festival Fringe The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (also referred to as the Edinburgh Fringe, the Fringe or the Edinburgh Fringe Festival) is the world's largest performance arts festival, which in 2024 spanned 25 days, sold more than 2.6 million tickets and featur ...

show Undeniable was described as "saying something vital and fresh" and "structured, consistently funny and well-crafted routine." Rowe won the Funniest Joke of the Fringe award that year with the joke "Working at the Jobcentre has to be a tense job - knowing that if you get fired, you still have to come in the next day." Rowe begrudges this award as he believes the joke he was commended for doesn’t accurately portray his style as a comic, and that audiences who will be enticed to his shows based on the award may mistake him for a one-liner comic. Rowe's 2019 Edinburgh show was called Pinnacle and was described as "another irrepressible and articulate hour by a rising talent". Rowe has appeared on

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show

Fighting Talk ''Fighting Talk'' is a topical sports show broadcast on BBC Radio 5 Live during the English football season. The show is broadcast on Saturday mornings for an hour between 11.00 and 12.00 and is currently presented by Rick Edwards. This show is ...

The News Quiz ''The News Quiz'' is a British topical panel game broadcast on BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in 1977. The show, created by John Lloyd from an idea by Nicholas Parsons, has seen several hosts, including Barry Norman, Barry Took, Simon Hogg ...

, on the award-winning Liverpool-based podcast The Anfield Wrap, and on

Roast Battle ''Roast Battle'' is a British roast comedy show that is broadcast on Comedy Central. The show is hosted by Jimmy Carr and features comedians facing each other in roast battles. The show was created by American comedians Jeff Ross and Brian Moses ...

Have A Word Podcast

Rowe has his own podcast '' Have A Word'' with fellow comedian Dan Nightingale as well as producer and co-owner of the company Carl Reigler AKA Sensei Carl. In 2021, Rowe and Nightingale, under the umbrella of Have A Word, released the song ''Laura's Gone'' in a bid to reach Christmas number 1 and raise money for

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and the Childhood Eye Cancer Trust. The song reached number 39 in the

Official Charts Company The Official UK Charts Company Limited (formerly Music Industry Chart Services Limited), trading as the Official Charts Company (OCC) or the Official Charts (formerly the Chart Information Network), is a British inter-professional organisation ...

midweek chart. In 2022, ''Have A Word'' won the Best Podcast at the

Chortle Awards The Chortle Awards were set up in 2002 by the comedy website Chortle to honour the best of established stand-up comics currently working in the UK. A panel of reviewers draw up a shortlist, which is presented for public vote at the Chortle webs ...

. In 2023, it was nominated for the Best Comedy Podcast at the

National Comedy Awards The National Comedy Awards (known as the British Comedy Awards from 1990 to 2014) is an annual awards ceremony in the United Kingdom, celebrating notable comedians and entertainment performances of the previous year. The British Comedy Awards (1 ...

. As of 22nd May 2025, ''Have A Word'' is the 14th most subscribed to page on

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, however they are ranked 3rd for video content.

Awards

References

External links

Official Website of Adam Rowe
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rowe, Adam Living people Comedians from Liverpool Year of birth missing (living people) English stand-up comedians English podcasters