Phil Ellis
Stand-up comedian

Phil Ellis

Who Phil Ellis is

Phil Ellis is a UK stand-up comedian known for joyfully chaotic, silly shows that mix off-beat observation with physical comedy, and a contestant on the twentieth series of Channel 4's Taskmaster in 2025. He won the Edinburgh Comedy Awards' Panel Prize in 2014 with his anarchic game show Funz and Gamez and was nominated for Best Comedy Show in 2023 with Phil Ellis's Excellent Comedy Show, which also won the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality.

At the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe his show Soppy Stern won the Malcolm Hardee Award for Act That Should Make a Million Quid and was joint winner of Best Show at the ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards, after ISH Best Show nominations in 2023 and 2024; he was also nominated for a Malcolm Hardee award in 2015 and named best compere at the 2025 Chortle Awards. He co-wrote and starred in three series of the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Phil Ellis Is Trying from 2018 to 2020.

At a glance

Podcasts and radio
Phil Ellis Is Trying and Early Worms
On screen
Taskmaster
Official site
philelliscomedy.com ↗

On stage

No dated show on D.O.C.'s Comedy Calendar right now — their own site has their dates: philelliscomedy.com ↗.

Lineups belong to the rooms and the comedians, and can change; each listing has the last word. Their nights on the Comedy Calendar →

Specials, shows and podcasts

On screen

Podcasts and radio

Comedians like Phil Ellis

Each linked to them by something on the record — a stage they both came through, a bill, a show, a style or a home town.

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Questions and answers

Where is Phil Ellis performing next?

No date is on D.O.C.'s Comedy Calendar right now; their own site has their dates: philelliscomedy.com ↗.

What podcasts and radio shows have they been on?

Phil Ellis Is Trying and Early Worms.

What TV shows and films are they in?

Taskmaster.

Who are some comedians like them?

Aisling Bea (also in Taskmaster), Amy Gledhill (also in Taskmaster), Andy Zaltzman (also in Taskmaster), Fern Brady (also in Taskmaster) and James Acaster (also in Taskmaster).

The full SUCDb record

The full record — the career in order, the specials and credits, and the sources for each — is on SUCDb, with a button to add them to your D.O.C., your twelve.

Their SUCDb record →Their own site ↗

Sources

Updated 9 October 2026 · the record checked 6 October 2026