I’m Jim Smallman. I’m a stand-up comedian. I’ve won awards for it and everything.
I started my career in comedy in 2005, completely by accident and with no intention of turning it into a full-time job. However, I loved doing it from day one and now you can find me performing all over the country pretty much every night of the week. I work for all the major clubs and promoters in the UK, and if you want to find out where I’m performing next then feel free to check out my upcoming gigs page.
If you do come and see me then you’ll recognise me as being the chap with all the tattoos. My preferred description for myself (and if the Sun newspaper ever did some kind of report on me) is “heavily tattooed idiot”. I’m covered in them and yes, that is Ron Burgundy on my right arm. Told you I was an idiot.
In 2011 I took my second Edinburgh show up to the fringe and it got lots of lovely attention and great reviews – so much so that I then filmed a version of it for a DVD that you can buy on this very site. My first hour-long show was “The Boy Next Door Gone Wrong” which won two awards at the 2010 Hollywood Fringe Festival (Best Comedy Performance and Best International Show) and was nominated for Best Début Show at the 2009 Leicester Comedy Festival. This year (2012) I’m off to the fringe again with a BRAND NEW show full of surprises and daft stunts.
Away from comedy I have worked as a radio presenter for BBC Local Radio, appeared as a guest on BBC Radio Five Live’s “Fighting Talk”, record a podcast called “Squirrel on a Stick” with fellow comedian Kent Valentine and present a weekly wrestling TV show for Sports Tonight called The Slam. I also make silly videos and write a blog, all of which can be found on this site. How considerate of me.
Here’s my favourite video of me onstage thus far. This sums up me pretty bloody well.
If you want to get in touch with me then you can email me right here, or follow me on Twitter.
If it’s concerning booking me for a gig, radio or TV appearance or a casting then you need to speak to my lovely agent Jon Briley at Best Medicine management. You’ll find all of my casting information on his website.
The obligatory press quotes that comedians must fill their websites with can be found here, and the few remotely attractive pictures of me that exist are here.
Ta for visiting and all that. Come see me at a gig near you soon, say hello, and I will hold you until it becomes deeply uncomfortable.