Rachel Sarah Parris

Rachel Sarah Parris (born 1984 in Leicester) is an English comedian, musician, actress, and presenter. She hosted the satirical news show Late Night Mash, formerly The Mash Report. She attended Loughborough High School, holds an upper second-class Music BA from St Hilda's College, Oxford, and a master's degree from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama for acting.

Parris's stand-up comedy has been featured on Live at the Apollo, and she has performed solo shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, including It's Fun To Pretend, which was expanded into a UK tour for 2018/19. She presented the fourth series of the Game of Thrones spin-off show Thronecast and the BBC2 programme A Girl's Guide to TV. As an actor she has appeared in Murder in Successville, The IT Crowd, Plebs, and Count Arthur Strong, and she has been a panellist on QI, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, Would I Lie to You?, and Mock the Week. She also began improv comedy in 2007 with The Oxford Imps and is part of the Austentatious improv group.

In 2019, Parris was nominated for the BAFTA Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance for her work on The Mash Report, and won the Chortle Award for Best Music and Variety Act. In 2018, she was named Female First's Comedian of the Year, beating Tiffany Haddish, Amy Schumer, and Ellen DeGeneres to the prize. She wrote a book published in 2022, Advice from Strangers: Everything I Know from People I Don't Know. Parris lives in Balham, south-west London, and is married to fellow comedian Marcus Brigstocke, with whom she has a son.