Simon Talbot

Simon Lemming Talbot (born 18 July 1986) is a Danish-Irish comedian and Twitch streamer. He is best known for his various stand-up shows, appearances in numerous Danish TV-shows and his stand-up set on The Russell Howard Hour. His career breakthrough was winning the Danish version of Last Comic Standing in 2009, and he has since performed in sold-out theaters across Denmark, given standing ovations. His recent tour of Denmark sold 50,000 tickets. In 2006 he achieved a fourth place at the national competition of Standup, chose to leave his childhood city Skanderborg and moved to Copenhagen to develop his career as a stand-up comedian, and the same year he won the Danish Open in Stand-Up, which took place in Aarhus.

Talbot participated in the second (2007) and third (2008) seasons of the show Comedy Fight Club (Danish version of Last Comic Standing) on national tv (TV 2 Zulu), achieving a second place in the second season and winning in the third. In late 2009 he starred in the show Hvor fanden er Herning? on TV 2 Zulu, playing the role of Benjamin. In March 2010, he starred as a co-host and writer, together with comedian Jacob Wilson, on the national TV show Bingo Banko. From 2011 to 2012, Talbot was part of the national TV sketch show "Live fra Bremen", the Danish version of Saturday Night Live. In 2016, he starred in his own sketch show "Simon Talbot's Sketch Show" on TV 2 Zulu, and in 2017 he hosted Comedy Central's show 'Standup Uden Graenser' (Standup Beyond Borders). In 2019, he made a stand-up set on The Russell Howard Hour, with the clip on YouTube amassing over one million views. In 2019 he combined his comedic talent with his love for video games by creating the company 'Simon Talbot Streaming' and started to stream weekly on his Twitch-channel 'SimonTalbotComedy'.

Talbot did his first one-man show Damp in 2011, which premiered on 26 August 2011 in Musikhuset Aarhus and was later sold on DVD nationally. His second one-man show was "Talle alene i verden", and his third was Mr. Copenhagen, built around the stereotypes of Danish society. In 2017, Talbot started pursuing his long-time dream of doing comedy in English and moved to Los Angeles, USA, and in 2018 made his fourth one-man show "Make Denmark Great Again". During the national lockdown due to COVID-19, he wrote and performed the world's first interactive comedy show, "The Surrogate Comedy Show". He was supposed to launch his international stand-up tour Danish Invasion in 2020, but it was cancelled due to COVID-19, and he launched a Danish stand-up tour named 'Optur' in 2021 and 2022. Simon grew up with his mother Irene Lemming, and his father is named Thomas James Talbot and is from Ireland; due to his father being Irish, Simon sees himself as being half-Irish. In April 2017 Simon got engaged to Katrine Kohler, and they married in July 2019.