Maff Brown

Maff Brown (born 23 August 1974 in Laleham, Surrey) is a British comedian and MC known for his mischievous style of joke-telling, and the founder of the award-winning Outside The Box Comedy Club. Before comedy he played football, being chosen to play for Brentford and Hamilton Academical, and after his playing career was cut short by a broken ankle he coached at academies including Bolton Wanderers and Everton and worked as a match analyst at Liverpool. In May 2005 he completed the Amused Moose stand-up comedy course run by Logan Murray and began performing in November 2005, founding the Outside the Box Comedy Club at the Fighting Cocks pub in Kingston, which won the Best Comedy Club Award from Chortle three months after it began. He has performed at the Edinburgh Festival in shows including The Honky and the Wog and his debut solo show Looking After Lesal in 2010, and in December 2020 he appeared on Mock the Week as a late replacement.