Dr Matt Winning

Dr Matt Winning is a stand-up comedian and expert environmental researcher who performs live climate change comedy shows. He is also an author, broadcaster and keynote speaker.

Matt has a PhD in climate change policy and has been an active researcher, combining his two worlds of comedy and environmental issues in an attempt to help save the planet. In 2021 he published his book Hot Mess which encompasses these two worlds. He performed his latest stand-up show of the same name across the UK and was awarded Pick of the Fringe at Bedford Fringe Festival.

Matt is full of energy and combines quick humour, terrifying statistics and Powerpoint slides to entertain and educate audiences, giving them a hilarious and shocking fast-paced look into the planet’s future if the human race doesn’t get its act together on climate change, along with tips about what we can do to make a difference.

His blend of comedy with environmental economics gives him suitability for both daytime an evening events. Whether delivering an informative after-dinner performance or an amusing daytime keynote, his topical comedy works in all sort of contexts and covers issues that every kind of company should be concerned with. He is also experienced at hosting awards ceremonies.

On TV, Matt appeared as the environmental correspondent on Dave’s Unspun with Matt Forde and has also featured in BBC Scotland shows The State of It and Scot Squad. On radio, he has most recently presented BBC Radio 4’s Net Zero: A Very British Problem which is a 4 part series. He has also guest appeared on a BBC Radio 4’s Best Medicine, The Now Show and BBC Radio Scotland’s Breaking The News.

Matt hosted the podcast Operation Earth and has a TEDx talk about the importance of using humour to discuss climate change.

Early in his comedy career Matt quickly gained a reputation as an exciting new act after winning the Hilarity Bites New Act of the Year in 2011 and appearing in the final of the BBC Radio 2 New Comedy Awards in 2012. He has performed for many years at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, both in sketch shows and solo, bringing his staple hilarious and informative climate change comedy shows to audiences at the Fringe.

A comedian unlike any other, Matt Winning is a stand-up comic by night, but by day he works as an environmental economist at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources and holds a Phd in Climate Change Policy.

Full of energy, quick humour and terrifying statistics, Matt’s Powerpoint-based comedy shows both entertain and educate audiences, giving them a hilarious and shocking fast-paced look into the planet’s future if the human race doesn’t get its act together on climate change, along with tips about what we can individually do to make a difference.

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