Phil Wang

Phil Wang (born Philip Nathaniel Wang Sin Goi on 22 January 1990 in Stoke-on-Trent) is a Malaysian-British stand-up comedian and comedy writer. He is a member of the sketch comedy group Daphne and co-creator of their BBC Radio 4 series Daphne Sounds Expensive. Until 2025 he hosted the comedy podcast BudPod with fellow comedian and Footlights alumnus Pierre Novellie. He was born to an English mother and a Chinese-Malaysian father of Hakka descent from the Tuaran district in Sabah, and was raised in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, educated in Malay, Mandarin and English.

Wang moved to Bath, United Kingdom, at 16, attended Kingswood School and then completed a four-year engineering degree at King's College, Cambridge, where he was president of the Cambridge Footlights in 2012. He won the 2010 Chortle Student Comedian of the Year Award and, in 2011, Comedy Central's Funniest Student Award. He has made numerous television and radio appearances, including on Taskmaster, Would I Lie to You?, Have I Got News for You (including as compere in 2024) and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, and has performed stand-up on Live at the Apollo.

Wang has released two Netflix specials, Philly Philly Wang Wang in 2021 and Wang In There, Baby! in 2024. Beyond stand-up, he has acted in the sitcom Top Coppers, appeared in the 2023 film Wonka, and played a role in the Netflix series 3 Body Problem. His first book, Sidesplitter: How to Be from Two Worlds at Once, was published in 2021, and he embarked on a worldwide comedy tour ending in 2024. He hosted the British Academy Games Awards in both 2024 and 2025, and from 2026 he is a judge on Great British Menu, replacing Ed Gamble.