Miguel Lago

Miguel Lago is a Spanish stand-up comedian born in Vigo on 4 June 1981. He graduated in Hispanic Philology from the University of Vigo and made his debut on the television show El Club de la Comedia at the age of eighteen in 2000. After four years performing across Galicia he auditioned for Comedy Central in 2005 and starred in the special Pata Negra, which drew record audience figures for the channel. In 2011 he premiered his own theatre show, Soy un Miserable, a full length stand-up piece that went on to be seen by more than fifty thousand spectators across Spain. He has published two humour books, Manual del cómico novato in 2015 and Gamberro y Caballero in 2017, and appeared in the Netflix original series Las Chicas del Cable in 2017. He continues to write and perform new stand-up material and produces Stand Up Show, a weekly live comedy night intended to give newer monologuists, resident comedians and established names a shared stage to try out fresh material.