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Jo Caulfield : biography

26 September 1966 –

Josephine "Jo" Caulfield (born 1963) is a British actress, writer and comedian.

Live shows

2001
Jo Caulfield – It’s Not That Important (Pleasance Dome/Edinburgh Festival)
2002
Jo Caulfield – Live (Pleasance Upstairs/Edinburgh Festival)
2003
Jo Caulfield – It’s That Jo Caulfield Again (Pleasance Cabaret Bar/Edinburgh Festival
2004
Jo Caulfield – Role Model (Pleasance Queen Dome/Edinburgh Festival)
2005
Jo Caulfield – Who Are You? (Pleasance Cavern/Edinburgh Festival)
2006
Jo Caulfield – Emotional Warfare (Pleasance Queen Dome/Edinburgh Festival)
2007
Jo Caulfield – Goes To Hell (Assembly Rooms/Edinburgh Festival)
2008
Jo Caulfield – Two-Faced Bitch? (Stand Comedy Club/Edinburgh Festival)
2009
Jo Caulfield – Won’t Shut Up! (Stand Comedy Club/Edinburgh Festival)
2010
Jo Caulfield – Cruel To Be Kind (Stand Comedy Club/Edinburgh Festival)
2012
Jo Caulfield – Thinking Bad Thoughts (Stand Comedy Club/Edinburgh Festival)
UK tours
2006 Jo Caulfield Live:
2008 Jo Caulfield Goes To Hell:
2010 Jo Caulfield Won’t Shut Up
2012 Better The Devil You Know

Biography

Born in Wales to Irish parents, she was brought up in Derbyshire and Leicestershire England.

At 17 Caulfield moved to London. For two years she lived in a squat in Ladbroke Grove, West London, and played drums in a Rockabilly band. Heavily influenced by The Cramps and The Fleshtones the band went nowhere fast due to their "lack of songs, musical ability and talent. But we did wear nice clothes" – Jo Caulfield (Radio 4 interview).

Career

Deciding she wanted to get into comedy, Caulfield worked as a waitress during the day, saved up her tips, bought a small mic & amp, and opened her own comedy club. After meeting her partner, the couple agreed a two-year plan to either make it or give up. Caulfield was soon writing for Graham Norton, getting her own gigs, doing a BBC Radio 4 show.

Writer/comedian

In 2010 Jo Caulfield was nominated as ‘Funniest Woman 2010’ (LAFTA Awards). She has previously been nominated as ‘Best Female Comedian 2002’ (Chortle Awards), ‘Best Compere 2004’ (Chortle Awards) and one of ‘The 100 Greatest Stand-Ups’ (Channel4).

She has appeared at major comedy clubs, both in the UK and overseas, and has completed two solo nationwide tours, and a further three as support act of Graham Norton, Puppetry of the Penis, and Rory Bremner. For the last nine years, Caulfield has taken a new solo stand-up comedy show to the Edinburgh Fringe.

Caulfield was Comedy Writer/Programme Consultant for all five series of the BAFTA Award-winning So Graham Norton. She was also head writer on both Ruby Wax’s Waiting Game and Zoe Ball’s ‘Strictly Dance Fever’ (BBC3). Caulfield has also written for Joan Rivers, Anne Robinson, Denise Van Outen and Ant & Dec among others.

Jo’s first CD, "Thinking Bad Thoughts", was released via iTunes in October, 2012.

Television

Caulfield’s own TV appearances include Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Mock the Week, The Stand-up Show, The Comedy Store, The World Stands Up, Have I Got News For You, Argumental and The Politics Show. Most recently, she appeared on ‘Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow’.

In November 2008 Caulfield presented a video piece for BBC1’s ‘The One Show’ about Charles Darwin. Caulfield visited the Darwin exhibition at the Natural History Museum to see what this great thinker thought were the pros and cons of marriage.

In March 2010 Caulfield had her set at London’s Comedy Store filmed for the up-and-coming The Comedy Store series on Comedy Central.