Alex Boardman
Alex started stand up the year before me at the same dodgy backrooms and pubs in Manchester. He has gone on to be one of the most assured confident stand ups on the circuit and regularly plays all the top comedy clubs here and abroad. I employed him as a writer when I was on 8 Out of 10 cats, he is quality.
Jason Manford
Very Funny, a rare mixture of wit and charm.
The Guardian
Alex was one of a small band of writers who worked on the second series of John Bishop’s Britain on BBC 1 and he made a significant contribution to it being the highest rated stand up show of 2011 bringing in six million viewers a week. He can turn material around quickly and has the great skill of enhancing existing ideas to make a show better rather than just wishing to force his own material which makes him a great collaborator.
John Bishop
A great comic and a skilled writer
Sarah Millican
Alex Boardman is one of the most sought after acts in the country due to his ability to interact with any audience and to seemingly conjure something out of nothing. His free flowing style and natural charm breeze through in performances. However there is often a hard-hitting edge to his material that acts as counter balance to this.
Given this ability for ad-libbing and ease with the audience, it is no wonder that Alex often finds himself acting as compere. His unique brand of “Flattery and abuse” as one journalist put it, is always popular, as although he dances round the edge of what it is considered PC to say in public, the lack of malice and sense of fun in what he does, means that everyone gets to laugh. Best of all, you feel it is at no one’s expense.
He was the warm-up act for An Evening with Eric Cantona at The London Palladium (2017) and The Lowry Salford (2017) and also for Paul Hollywood Bake Off Tour (2015) performing over 40 dates across theatres in the UK and Dublin.
Tour support for Jason Manford.
….And before you ask, no, he is no relation to Stan Boardman.