| Alt: | A close up photo of a white woman wearing a multicoloured floral headband, a multicoloured floral garland, and rectangular glasses. She is laughing. She has long hair, and through the hair, you can see a glimpse of her dangly earrings. The photo was taken on a sunny day. There are many people in the background walking, with rainbow coloured flags and banners. |
| Pseudonym: | Flapjack Lumberjack |
| Birth Date: | 14 June 1989 df=y |
| Birth Place: | Harrow, London, United Kingdom |
| Nationality: | Irish |
Alison Spittle (born 14 June 1989) is an Irish comedian, comedy writer, radio producer and actor.[1] She has worked for iRadio,[1] RTÉ Radio 1[1] and Newstalk and created sketches for Republic of Telly and has written and starred in her RTÉ Two sit-com Nowhere Fast in 2017. She is the host and creator of the Alison Spittle Show podcast hosted by HeadStuff Podcast Network.[2] [3] [4] [5]
Spittle was born in Harrow, London.[1] Spittle's father was a builder.[1] The family moved frequently, including to Dresden, Germany, before moving to Spittle's mother's ancestral home of County Westmeath, Tyrrellspass, Mullingar and finally Ballymore at age eight.[1] She attended secondary school in Moate.
Graduating from college in Dublin, Spittle moved back to Westmeath where she worked as a researcher for iRadio with comedian Bernard O'Shea.[1] She began working in comedy, supporting PJ Gallagher. This led to her participation in So You Think You're Funny's Irish heats, qualifying for rounds in Edinburgh.[1] She got a guest spot on the "Happy Hour" section of the John Murray Show RTÉ Radio 1 from this success.[1]
Her comedy shows have included Alison Spittle Needs an Agent, Alison Spittle Discovers Hawaii (2015), and Worrier Princess (2017).[6] She has performed at the Edinburgh and Dublin fringe festivals,[6] as well as The Forbidden Fruit and Cork Comedy festivals.[7] [8]
Spittle wrote and starred in web comedy shorts for RTÉ Two, and in sketches for Republic of Telly with Kevin McGahern.[8] [9]
She was a regular contributor to The Right Hook with George Hook on Newstalk.[8] [10] She is also a regular and well-loved co-host of The Guilty Feminist podcast with Deborah Francis-White.
She appeared in the 2019 comedy film Extra Ordinary.
In 2020, she and fellow comedian Fern Brady started a podcast for the BBC called Wheel of Misfortune.[11] Brady left the podcast in early 2021 and Spittle hosted the show with guests until Kerry Katona became permanent co-host in November 2022.[12]
In November 2023, she appeared on game show Richard Osman's House of Games. She finished in 2nd place, with Clive Anderson winning by just one point.
In 2017, she co-wrote six-part sitcom Nowhere Fast with her boyfriend Simon Mulholland.[8] [9] [13] The series was directed by Simon Gibney.[13] The show sees Angela (played by Spittle) moving back down to Ballybeag in the midlands, having lost her job on a radio show in Dublin following a high-profile libel case.[14] The series began in November 2017, and was generally well received by critics and viewers.[13] [15] [16]
In January 2022, Alison announced she had quit all social media after eating some pink chicken and realising she needed to turn her life around.[17]