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Catherine Joy "Catie" Wilkins is a British comedian, writer, and
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.


Career

Wilkins started her career in
stand-up comedy Stand-up comedy is a performance directed to a live audience, where the performer stands on a stage (theatre), stage and delivers humour, humorous and satire, satirical monologues sometimes incorporating physical comedy, physical acts. These ...
in 2004 under the name Catie Wilkins. She appeared on
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’s ''Stand-Up Hero'', and performed two solo hour shows at the Edinburgh Fringe: ''A Chip off the Odd Block'' (2011), which received a nomination from the NOTBBC Best Live Comedy Show, and ''Joy Is My Middle Name'' (2012) Wilkins's comedy persona is dry, sarcastic and deadpan and her comedy is observational. Her 2011 show focused on being raised in a quirky household and her attempts to be a normal adult, her second show focused on the irony of her middle name Joy. During her time as a stand-up she was invited to write for an episode of ''
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'', which was broadcast on
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. Wilkins's first book, ''My Best Friend And Other Enemies'', was published by
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in 2012. It concerns a girl named Jessica whose best friend goes off with the cool new girl at school. Jessica uses her sense of humour and her cartoon drawing skills to win her back. ''
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'' listed ''My Best Friend'' among the ten best children's books for Christmas in 2012, with reviewer Marianne Levy calling it "properly funny". In 2013, it was also selected for the Bookbuzz reading programme list for Year 7 and Year 8 . A reviewer on ''
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'' wrote that it was a "fantastic read" and "couldn't put the book down". The series continued with ''My Brilliant Life and Other Disasters'' in 2013, which was reviewed in ''The Guardian'' as one that they would "recommend to anyone, especially fans of Jacqueline Wilson". This was followed by ''My School Musical And Other Punishments'' in 2014 and ''My Great Success And Other Failures'' in 2015. Catherine's latest book, ''When Good Geeks Go Bad'', was published in 2019. In 2018, she returned to comedy in co-presenting the podcast ''Drunk Women Solving Crime'' with screenwriter Hannah George and writer/comedian Taylor Glenn, produced by Amanda Redman. The show is hosted by
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and reached number 4 in the podcast chart when it launched in September 2018. Each week the three co-presenters are joined by a different female guest from the world of comedy, media and broadcasting, who is invited to test their detective skills whilst getting drunk. Guests so far have included
Katherine Ryan Katherine Louisa Ryan (born June 1983) is a Canadian comedian, writer, presenter, actress and singer. She has appeared on British TV and radio panel shows, including ''8 Out of 10 Cats'', ''Never Mind the Buzzcocks'', ''A League of Their Own'', ...
, Jenny Éclair and
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. Each episode is divided into three sections; the first section involves the guest sharing their own story of experiencing a crime, the second section involves one of the co-presenters telling a true crime story and the other presenters and guest attempting to solve it whilst drinking, and the third section involves the presenters and guest solving a listener-submitted crime. The podcast has also been recorded live at the
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Although there are several true crime podcasts that involve alcohol, ''Drunk Women'' is the first true crime podcast to combine drinking with a special guest whilst actively trying to ‘solve' a crime in a comedy quiz style format.


Personal life

Wilkins met fellow comedian
Richard Herring Richard Keith Herring (born 12 July 1967) is an English stand-up comedian and writer whose early work includes the comedy double act Lee and Herring (alongside Stewart Lee). He is described by ''The British Theatre Guide'' as "one of the leadin ...
in 2006, they married in 2012. They had their first child, a daughter, in February 2015, and a son in October 2017. Wilkins is an
atheist Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...
; she has written articles for ''
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'' magazine, and contributed to the
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book ''
The Atheist's Guide to Christmas ''The Atheist's Guide to Christmas'' is a 2009 book written by 42 atheist celebrities, comedians, scientists and writers who give their humorous and serious tips for enjoying the Christmas season as an atheist. It made the Amazon best-seller list ...
'' published in 2009.


Books

* ''My Best Friend and Other Enemies'' (Nosy Crow, 2012) * ''My Brilliant Life and Other Disasters'' (Nosy Crow, 2013) * ''My School Musical And Other Punishments'' (Nosy Crow, 2014) * ''My Great Success And Other Failures'' (Nosy Crow, 2015) * ''When Good Geeks Go Bad'' (Nosy Crow, 2019) * ''The Weird Friends Fan Club'' (Nosy Crow, 2019)


References


External links


Catherine Wilkins profile
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