Paul Kerensa

Paul Kerensa was born in Cornwall in 1979, and once he'd learned to write, he started writing.

Years later, he's an award-winning writer of TV, radio, books and his own stand-up comedy, which he still performs twice or thrice a week. He's part of the British Comedy Award-winning writing team for BBC's Miranda, the Rose d-Or Award-winning writing team for BBC1's Not Going Out, he's written for cult shows like C4's TFI Friday and BBC Radio 4's The Now Show and Dead Ringers, as well as mainstream hits like BBC's Top Gear, Buble at the BBC and the BBC Music Awards.

In book form, Paul wrote the true-life memoir So a Comedian Walks into a Church in 2013, which made The Independent's top 7 comedy books for Christmas that year. He followed that up with Genesis: The Bibluffer's Guide, based on his Edinburgh Festival show retelling tales of Adam & Eve, Noah and musicals about dreamcoats.

2017's Hark! The Biography of Christmas was an Amazon best-seller, and 2018's children's books Noah's Car Park Ark and Moses & The Exodus Express are beautifully illustrated by The Pope Twins.

His podcast The British Broadcasting Century tells the origin story of the BBC, radio and life as we know it, and is the basis of his new historical novel Auntie and Uncles.

His website is paulkerensa.com