Jon Richardson is one of the nation's most-loved and accomplished comedians. Beyond his stand-up, Jon is best known as team captain on Channel 4's 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. Most recently you may have seen him fronting Our Yorkshire Pub Rescue with Jon Richardson. He came second on Series 2 of Taskmaster and makes regular appearances on Have I Got News For You, The Last Leg & Would I Lie to You?.

Jon hosts The Jon Richardson Show on Absolute Radio every Saturday morning and played series regular Darius Donovan in back-to-back series of the BBC hit drama, Waterloo Road. His last stand-up tour, The Knitwit, played to a whopping 150,000 people across the UK and Ireland.

A co-host on podcasts Jon Richardson and the Futurenauts and Down the Dog with Matt Forde, he is also the author of It's Not Me, It's You, published in 2011.