Phil Wang

An internationally acclaimed live act, Phil Wang is one of the UK’s most exciting stand-up comedians; having performed four solo stand-up shows as well as international performances at festivals including Montreal Just for Laughs Festival and Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

His critically acclaimed live show, Kinabalu, sold out at the Edinburgh Festival in 2017 and his subsequent national tour was extended into 2018. Previous awards include Chortle Student Comedian of the Year Award and Comedy Central’s Funniest Student Award.

Phil was born in Stoke-on-Trent to an English mother and a Chinese-Malaysian father. He moved to Kota Kinabalu in Malaysia when he was only one week old. Phil grew up in Malaysia, where he was taught in Malay, Mandarin and English. He took GCSEs at boarding school in Brunei and at 16 moved to back to the UK, to Bath in Somerset, his mother’s home city. Phil studied engineering at King's College, Cambridge, where he was also president of the Cambridge Footlights.

Phil’s numerous television appearances include Taskmaster (Channel 4), Russel Howard’s Stand Up Central (Comedy Central), The Rob Brydon Show (BBC1), Have I Got News for You? (BBC1), Would I Lie to You? (BBC1), Live at the Apollo (BBC1) and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (Channel 4).

Phil has written and starred in two series of Daphne Sounds Expensive for Radio 4 with his Foster’s Newcomer Award nominated sketch trio, Daphne.

He has two comedy specials on Netflix called Wang In There Baby and Philly Philly Wang Wang. Since then, he has performed stand-up on Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC), been interviewed by chat show royalty on That’s My Time with David Letterman (Netflix), and his first book Sidesplitter: How to be from Two Worlds at Once was named a Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year.

In 2023, he appeared as a supporting role in Wonka.

Phil Wang is one of the UK’s most exciting stand-up comedians and is a great choice for hosting a corporate awards ceremony or performing an after-dinner cabaret set.

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