John Michael David Robins

John Robins, born John Michael David Robins on 4 May 1982, is an English stand-up comedian and radio presenter. He grew up in Thornbury and was educated at The Castle School and at St Anne's College, Oxford, where he read English. After graduating he returned to Bristol, where in 2006 he shared a flat with fellow comedians Jon Richardson, Russell Howard, and Mark Olver. He began performing comedy in 2005 and reached the semi-finals of the So You Think You're Funny competition at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He is known for co-hosting his radio show and podcast with Elis James, and in 2017 he was the joint-winner of the Edinburgh Comedy Award.

Robins has performed solo shows at the Edinburgh Festival every year between 2009 and 2015, starting with Skinny Love and including Where Is My Mind? (2013), This Tornado Loves You (2014), and Speakeasy (2015). In August 2017 he won, jointly with Hannah Gadsby, the Edinburgh Comedy Award for The Darkness of Robins, which focused on the breakdown of his relationship with comedian Sara Pascoe; the show was later filmed by the BBC and made available on Netflix. His television appearances include Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week, and Russell Howard's Good News, and in 2018 he hosted the Dave game show Beat the Internet.

In February 2014 Robins began hosting the Elis James and John Robins show on XFM (later Radio X) with Elis James, a popular podcast with over 12 million downloads as of July 2017. After the show's final Radio X episode in March 2019, the pair moved to BBC Radio 5 Live, and in October 2019 launched the podcast How Do You Cope?, which won the "Radio Times Moment Of The Year" award at the 2024 ARIAS for an edition in which Robins revealed his struggle with alcohol addiction. He also co-founded the YouTube channel Bad Golf with fellow comedian Alex Horne and, with James, published the book The Holy Vible.