Lou Sanders

An internationally-acclaimed stand-up comedian, Lou presents her most personal show yet (but fully clothed).

“Just like Tom Cruise does all his own stunts, I’m going to do all my own jokes!”.

Lou has toured her live shows to packed houses across the world and regularly receives rave reviews. One
of Britain’s most original comedians, Lou is consistently a critic’s and audience favourite who has been
named a top comedian to see by publications including The Guardian, The Scotsman, The List, The Mirror
and the Evening Standard.

Away from the stage, Lou published her debut book, the delightfully gritty memoir ‘What’s That Lady Doing?
False Starts and Happy Endings’ which she said “seems to have connected with women over thirty five,
alcoholics and other vulnerable cross sections of humanity”. Delving into a rich variety of topics including her
sexual harassment, overcoming shame, trauma, and discovering spirituality with her trademark humour,
honesty and vulnerability. The book was described by The Guardian as “a moving, hilarious and generally
astonishing memoir”, and made the top ten biographies on Audible. She also writes regular columns for The
Guardian and Metro.

Lou currently stars in ITV’s Dancing On Ice which is filming now and airing until March, and she can also be
seen in the fourth series of Unforgivable which Lou co-hosts with Mel Giedroyc and saw them crowned
Best Entertainment Programme at the Broadcast Digital Awards. Lou recently hosted an episode of Live At
The Apollo which aired on BBC One recently. Lou is also a previous Taskmaster champion, and she has
featured on The Late Late Show with James Corden (CBS), 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown (Channel
4), QI (BBC Two), Travel Man (Channel 4), Hypothetical (Dave), 8 Out of 10 Cats (Channel 4) to name a
few of her TV appearances. Lou can regularly be heard on The Unbelievable Truth (BBC Radio 4), while
she has been a guest co-host on live radio shows on Virgin Radio, BBC Radio 5 Live and Radio X with
names including John Robins, Elis James and Ed Gamble