Andrew O'Neill

Andrew O'Neill (born 14 September 1979) is a British comedian, musician, presenter, and writer. Born in Portsmouth in 1979, O'Neill grew up in the London suburban town of Wallington. They did their first comedy performance at the age of ten, and started their stand-up career on 16 January 2002 at the Laughing Horse, Camden. Since then they have gone on to perform in comedy clubs, theatres and music festivals throughout the UK, Australia, US and Europe.

Andrew has performed on the comedy stage at Download Festival and at Sonisphere Festival, opened for Amanda Palmer from The Dresden Dolls, and has performed at comedy festivals in Adelaide, Melbourne and Wellington. They have written a column in Terrorizer magazine and are the guitarist for steampunk band The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing. In 2017 they published their first book, A History of Heavy Metal, which Alan Moore described as "a comprehensive landmark analysis of an enormous area of music that has been too long without such a thing". In 2023 they appeared as Mutt's Spouse in Series 2 of Good Omens.

O'Neill's live credits include ...Is Easily Distracted (2012), Alternative (2011), Occult Comedian (2009), and Winston Churchill was Jack the Ripper, the full account (2006), among others, with several UK and Australia tours. Their radio and television work spans Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Saxondale, The Museum of Curiosity, The Blame Game, and Good Omens. They won the Special Award for Excellence at the Transgender Television Awards 2015 for the show Pharmacist Baffler. Pharmacist Baffler was a Radio 4 stand-up show, with O'Neill credited as a writer in 2014.