Jo Enright: Comedian

Jo Enright has mixed her comedy stand up act with a successful acting career. Jo has been present on the comedy circuit since the early nineties making her Edinburgh Festival debut (1995) as part of the three-hander The West Midland’s Serious Comedy Squad. She has gone on to appear on many TV comedy shows including Davis One night Stand and as a guest on many BBC shows.

Acting Career

Her acting career has blossomed just as much as her stand up career. In 2002, she appeared alongside Steve Coogan in episode five, series two of the BBC comedy I’m Alan Partridge as a tax inspector investigating Alan. In 2006 she appeared in the comedy series Time Trumpet on BBC2, playing herself as a commentator in the year 2031 looking back on the world nearly thirty years before.

Peter’s Pal

From July 2008 she appeared in the BBC comedy series Lab Rats on BBC2, as lab assistant Cara McIlvenny. 12 October 2008, she played wheelchair user Jackie, a member of the fictional “2 Up, 2 Down”, on Peter Kay’s Britain’s Got The Pop Factor; and Possibly A New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly On Ice, a spoof on the talent show genre of programmes. This was the third Peter Kay venture she had starred in after That Peter Kay Thing and an episode of Phoenix Nights as Brian’s valentine, Beverly.

More TV Comedy

Starting in 2009 she played the role of Carol in the fifth and sixth series of the BBC sitcom Ideal. In 2011, she appeared in Ricky Gervais’ and Stephen Merchant’s television comedy series Life’s Too Short as Sue, Warwick Davis’ estranged wife. In 2012 she appeared as baker Sharon in the Sky1 sitcom Trollied

Jo Enright: Acting Credits

• Life’s Too Short as Sue
• Ideal as Carol
• Lab Rats (2008) as Cara McIlvenny
• Time Trumpet (2006) as herself (in an imagined future)
• Round (2003) as Ann
• I’m Alan Partridge – I Know What Alan Did Last Summer (2002) as Tax Inspector Catherine
• World of Pub – Ladies (2001)
• Phoenix Nights (aka Peter Kay’s Phoenix Nights) – Episode #1.4 (2001) as Beverly Hillscopto
• That Peter Kay Thing – The Arena (1999)
• I Love a 1970′s Christmas (2000) as herself
• Barking (1998)
• Channel 4 sketch show, as writer and performer

Jo is often heard on our screens, having provided voice-overs in ads for Jaffa Cakes, Living TV, Sainsburys, Hutchison and Nescafe.

Comedy Awards

• 2002: Chortle Award winner for best female circuit comic
• 2001: Best Female on the Jongleurs Comedy Circuit, sponsored by Bodyform
• 1996: Named comedian of the year at the Leicester Comedy Festival