Phil Wang (comedian)

Phil Wang
Born	1990
Alma mater	Cambridge University
Occupation	Comedian
Website	www.philwang.co.uk

Phil Wang is a British Chinese stand-up comedian^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] who is also a member of the British sketch comedy group Daphne.^[6]

Career

Wang won the 2010 Chortle Student Comedian of the Year Award, and in 2011, Comedy Central's Funniest Student Award. He has appeared in The Rob Brydon Show, Comedy Up Late, About Tonight, It Was Alright in the 70s, Have I Got News for You, Unspun with Matt Forde, Would I Lie to You? and The Dog Ate My Homework. In 2012 he was president of Footlights.

He has written for The Guardian^[7] and has acted in the sitcom Top Coppers.

References

↑ "Phil Wang".
↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comedy/what-to-see/edinburgh-comedy-2015-what-to-see/
↑ "Melbourne International Comedy Festival: Phil Wang engineers a laugh with 'high-status' comedy". The Sydney Morning Herald.
↑ "My Comedy Hero: Phil Wang on Leslie Nielsen". The List.
↑ "Phil Wang - Edinburgh Fringe 2015 - British Comedy Guide".
↑ Edinburgh festival 2015: 10 comedy acts to watch, The Guardian
↑ "Phil Wang: Impossibly wise or offensively stupid – Chinese people in US films". the Guardian.

External links

Phil Wang at the Internet Movie Database
Phil Wang on Twitter
Phil Wang on Facebook

Footlights presidents

1886–99	1886: F. W. Mortimer 1887: J. J. Withers 1890: O. Browning 1891: C. M. Rae 1892: O. Browning 1894–95: O. Browning 1896–97: H. C. Pollitt 1898: M. V. Leveaux 1899: S. W. Burgess

1900–49	1900: O. J. Goedecker 1901: R. J. White 1902: E. K. Fordham 1904–05: G. S. Heathcote 1906–07: H. Rottenburg 1908: J. S. Murray 1909: L. B. Tillard 1910–11: A. R. Inglis 1912: P. D. Ravenscroft 1913: C. A. A. Douglas Hamilton 1914: M. Cutherston 1919–20: B. D. Nicholson 1921: M. D. Lyon 1923: F. E. Powell 1924: J. A. C. Barradale 1925: H. J. Warrender 1926: J. D. Houison Craufurd 1927: H. C. Martineau 1928: H. E. R. Mitchell 1929: J. Fell Clark 1930: J. C. Byrom 1931: R. S. Hill 1932: P. E. Lyon 1933: J. A. Coates 1934: M. Killanin 1935: H. Lee 1936: P. Crane 1937: A. E. P. Robison 1938: P. B. Meyer 1939: R. C. G. St L. Ricketts 1947–48: D. C. Orders 1949: S. W. Phipps

1950–99	1950: A. Vale 1951: I. Kellie 1952: A. Davidson 1953: P. Firth 1954: L. Bricusse 1955: B. Marber 1956: T. Berington 1957: A. Mitchell 1958: P. Stroud 1959: A. C. Slade 1960: P. E. Cook 1961: P. Bellwood 1962: R. Atkins 1963: T. J. Brooke-Taylor 1964: D. G. Garden 1965: E. Idle 1966: A. Mayer 1967: C. James 1968: J. James-Moore 1969: B. Brown 1970: A. Edwards 1971: R. MacKenna 1972: S. Thorn 1973: R. Benton 1974: J. Canter 1975: C. S. Anderson 1976: C. Keightley 1977: J. T. Mulville 1978: M. Bergman 1979: R. G. Bathurst 1980: J. Ravens 1981: J. H. C. Laurie 1982: A. D. J. Slattery 1983: N. Mullarkey 1984: N. Hancock 1985: K. Crew 1986: N. Golson 1987: T. Scott 1988: P. Bradshaw 1989: R. Kenyon 1990: H. Naylor 1991: S. E. Perkins 1992: D. Gaster 1993: M. Evans 1994: R. Thorogood 1995: C. Hartill 1996: D. J. S. Mitchell 1997: S. Moule 1998: R. E. Ayoade 1999: K. Baker

2000–present	2000: M. Green 2001: J. Morris 2002: E. C. E. Weeks 2003: S. Golaszewski 2004: E. Riches 2005: R. Shirley 2006: S. A. Bird 2007: W. T. F. Sharpe 2008: S. Sword 2009: A. Roberts 2010: A. Tedder 2011: M. Fiddaman 2012: P. Wang 2013: H. Michell 2014: B. Pope 2015: T. Fraser 2016: O. Taylor 2017: D. Mapletoft

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