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Jen Brister
Jen Brister (born Jennifer Helen Brister, February 9, 1975, in Kingston upon Thames) is a British stand-up comedian, writer, and actor. She studied drama at Middlesex University, where she took one of the UK's first dedicated stand-up comedy courses in the mid-1990s, and gave her first stand-up performance at the King's Head in Crouch End, London, in 1996.
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United Kingdom
- Aug 1LondonSomerset HouseView details
- Sep 5ManchesterCastlefield BowlView details
- Sep 16 – Sep 17AberdeenTivoli TheatreView details
- Sep 17 – Sep 18DundeeWhitehall TheatreView details
- Oct 16SheffieldThe SteamworksView details
- Oct 23 – Oct 24LondonEartH (Theatre)View details
- Nov 11LondonSoho Theatre WalthamstowView details
- Dec 3CambridgeCambridge Corn ExchangeView details
- Dec 4OxfordNew Theatre OxfordView details
- Dec 5IpswichCorn Exchange IpswichView details
- Dec 6BournemouthLighthouseView details
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Past shows
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United Kingdom
- Jul 18LondonOld Royal Naval CollegeView details
About Jen Brister
Brister has been a regular performer at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe since 2006, with shows including Me, My Mum and I, British(ish), Now and Then, Wishful Thinking, The Other One, and Meaningless, and has toured most recently with The Optimist since 2022. She appeared on BBC Two's Live at the Apollo in 2017 and has been a panellist on Mock the Week and QI, as well as supporting Frankie Boyle's 2018 tour.
In 2019 she published the memoir The Other Mother: A Wickedly Honest Parenting Tale for Every Kind of Family with Penguin, and appeared in the 2021 horror film Lair. She has also given a TEDx talk on gender norms in child-rearing.