Rosie Wilby

Rosie Wilby (born 1970 in Liverpool) is an English comedian. Born in Liverpool, Wilby grew up in Ormskirk, and studied at the University of York, where one of her contemporaries was fellow comic Zoe Lyons. Moving to North London in 1993, Wilby secured a place on the ft2 Film and Television freelance training scheme and worked on shows including Later... with Jools Holland. Between 1997 and 2000, she was a regular music journalist for Time Out London, as well as writing for NME. In 1996 she formed a band named Wilby, which released an album entitled Precious Hours in July 2000 on her own label, Cat Flap Recordings. She also performed at the Glastonbury Festival.

In 2004, after positive comments about her between song banter, she entered the stand-up competition So You Think You're Funny and got through to the semi-finals. She also reached the Laughing Horse competition semi-finals in 2005 and then the Funny Women final in 2006, held at the Comedy Store, compered by Shappi Khorsandi. In 2007, Wilby reached the final of the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year and the semi-finals of the Amused Moose competition. She has taken shows to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and on tour around the UK, including a spoof lecture about memory called "I am Nesia" and another spoof lecture about sex, "The Science of Sex", which won a Fringe Report Award 2010.

Wilby has appeared on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour and Loose Ends, BBC Radio 5, LBC and BBC London, but is best known for presenting a weekly LGBT magazine show, Out in South London, on London-based non-profit community radio station Resonance FM. Wilby created her podcast The Breakup Monologues in December 2018. Rosie Wilby's first book Is Monogamy Dead? was published in 2017 and was longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize 2018. The book followed her talk Is Monogamy Dead? Her second book The Breakup Monologues followed the podcast, and was published in 2021.