Jennifer Helen Brister

Jen Brister (born 9 February 1975), born Jennifer Helen Brister, is a British stand-up comedian, writer and actor. She is known for her solo shows on the UK and international comedy circuit, her memoir The Other Mother (2019), and her television appearances on programmes such as Live at the Apollo and Mock the Week. Born in Kingston upon Thames, Greater London, to a British father and a Spanish mother, she was raised Catholic and attended the all-girls' Ursuline High School, Wimbledon.

Brister studied drama at Middlesex University, where she took a course in stand-up comedy, the only one of its kind at the time in the UK. Her first gig was at the end of her third year at university in 1996, at the King's Head in Crouch End, London. She has performed internationally, including at the Melbourne Comedy Festival in 2011 and 2014 and the Adelaide Festival in 2011 and 2012, and continues to perform at UK clubs such as The Comedy Store and Up the Creek.

In 2017 she performed at BBC Two's Live at The Apollo, aired on 14 December 2017. She supported Frankie Boyle on his 2018 tour and was a panellist on Frankie Boyle's New World Order on BBC Two in 2019. In 2019 she published her memoir, The Other Mother: A Wickedly Honest Parenting Tale for Every Kind of Family, through Penguin / Square Peg. Her comedy hero is Victoria Wood. Brister and her partner, Chloe Martin, have twin sons born in September 2014 and live in Brighton.