Climate Comedian

Dr Matt Winning is a stand-up comedian and expert environmental researcher who performs live climate change comedy shows. He is also an Author, Broadcaster and Keynote Speaker.

 

Climate Comedy Events

Matt Winning performs climate change comedy shows (& selective excerpts) at science & comedy festivals, and charity & corporate events across the UK (and beyond if he can take a train). He has performed at COP28, the Royal Institution, Net Zero Festival, UK Schools Climate Assembly, Bluedot, BBC Climate Creatives festival and many, many others. Do get in touch if you think Matt would be an excellent addition to your event.

A live comedy show of his book HOT MESS was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe and toured the UK in 2022. This followed on the back of sold out runs of his  solo shows Filibuster,  Climate Strange and It’s The End Of The World As We Know It at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2017/2018/2019. All of which were built as comedy lectures about climate change and received considerable critical acclaim.

 

Climate Comedy Books, TV, Radio and Podcasts

Matt is the author of the book HOT MESS: What on Earth can we do about Climate Change? which is the world’s first comedy book explaining global warming.

He has a TEDx talk about the importance of using humour to discuss climate change, hosts the BBC Radio 4 show Net Zero: A Very British Problem, the podcast ‘Operation Earth’ and co-hosted Mark Watson and Matt Winning: Seriously, Though, The Planet on BBC Sounds.

On TV Matt has appeared on BBC2’s Inside Culture and as the environmental correspondent on Dave’s Unspun with Matt Forde and in BBC Scotland TV shows The State of It and Scot Squad. On radio he’s been a panelist on BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz and The Now Show and BBC Radio Scotland’s Breaking The News. Matt has written articles on climate change in Guardian, New Statesman, Scotsman, Metro and Sunday Post.

 

Climate Expert

Matt has a PhD in climate change policy, with 16 years experince working on climate mitigation. He is currently a Lecturer at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources where he has published on various environmental issues. Many of his recent journal papers were cited in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) AR6, and his work has been used by bodies such as the UK Committee on Climate Change.

 

Early Comedy Career

Early in his comedy career Matt quickly gained a reputation as an exciting new act after winning the Hilarity Bites New Act of the Year in 2011 and appearing in the final of the BBC Radio 2 New Comedy Awards in 2012. He also reached the final of the Chortle Student Comedy Awards in 2010, as himself, and again in 2011, as a character. In 2013 he performed at the Edinburgh Fringe on the famous new act show The Comedy Zone which previously featured acts such as Stewart Lee