Andrew Maxwell

Andrew Maxwell (born 3 December 1974) is an Irish comedian and narrator, known for narrating the MTV reality series Ex on the Beach. Born in Dublin, he tried stand-up comedy for the first time in 1992 at the Comedy Cellar at The International Bar in Dublin, and from 1995 he made regular appearances on BBC Two's Sunday Show.

Maxwell's other credits include RI:SE as the United States correspondent, a regular guest slot on the weekly topical comedy chat show The Panel, which ran on RTE One from 2003 until 2011, and regular appearances on British TV shows Never Mind the Buzzcocks and Mock the Week. He appeared on the Secret Policeman's Ball in 2006, the same year a Funny Cuts special for E4 called Andrew Maxwell - My Name Up In Lights aired. In 2014, Maxwell appeared in Comedy Central's Drunk History and became the narrator of Ex on the Beach, narrating every series since the show launched. He was voted the King of Comedy on the Channel 4 reality show of the same name, and in 2007 he was nominated for the if.comedy award for the best show at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Maxwell also hosts his own weekly late-night comedy gig Fullmooners, which mainly takes place in London but also tours comedy festivals such as Edinburgh, and which has featured comics like Russell Brand, Simon Pegg, Tommy Tiernan and Ed Byrne. He has presented a BBC Radio 4 series called Welcome to Wherever You Are, and in November 2019 he participated in the nineteenth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, finishing in eleventh place. He has been married to his Egyptian wife Suraya since 2015, the couple have three children as of 2019, and he is a supporter of Liverpool Football Club.