About Ashley Blaker
Ashley Blaker is an internationally acclaimed comedian, seen and heard on TV and radio across the world.
He has performed on five continents including tours of the UK, USA, Canada, South Africa, Israel and Australia.
His five week run Off-Broadway was called ‘a slickly funny stand-up show’ by the New York Times.
In August 2018, Ashley made his debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a sold-out run of his show ‘Observant Jew’.
In May 2019, he began a sold-out tour of his new show ‘Prophet Sharing’ alongside Muslim comedian Imran Yusuf.
He is the first Orthodox Jewish comedian to be given his own BBC show – ‘Ashley Blaker’s Goyish Guide To Judaism’ – which has been recommissioned and will return in 2019.
Ashley has been featured on PBS News Hour, CBS, Fox News, in the New York Times, New York Post, Financial Times, Jerusalem Post, Süddeutsche Zeitung and in Jewish newspapers all over the world.
In addition, Ashley is an award-winning comedy writer and producer for TV and radio. Whilst at the BBC, he was responsible for unleashing the comedy phenomenon ‘Little Britain’ and he has worked with a who’s who of TV comedy.
If he has any free time, then it’s spent being run ragged by his six children and two cats.
