
Ivo Graham
Biography
Ivo Charles Graham is an English stand-up comedian and comedy writer. He attended day and boarding schools in Australia and the UK, including Eton College, as his family moved around for his father's work.
Known For & Full Filmography31 Titles

Drama Series - 1990, 16 episodes • as Self
Hilarious, totally-irreverent, near-slanderous political quiz show, based mainly on news stories from the last week or so, that leaves no party, personality or action unscathed in pursuit of laughs.

Drama Series - 2003, 16 episodes • as Self
Comedy quiz show full of quirky facts, in which contestants are rewarded more if their answers are 'quite interesting'.

Drama Series - 2015, 16 episodes • as Self
Greg Davies is the Taskmaster, and with the help of his ever-loyal assistant Alex Horne, they will set out to test the wiles, wit, wisdom and skills of five hyper-competitive comedians. Who will be crowned the Taskmaster champion?

Drama Series - 2024, 16 episodes • as Self - Panellist
Based on the week’s news and fronted by guest hosts, this extended version of the satirical news quiz features more of the stuff that wouldn't fit into the regular programme.

Drama Series - 2007, 16 episodes • as Self
A comedic panel show featuring team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell plus two guests per side, hosted by Rob Brydon (formerly Angus Deayton). Each person must reveal embarrassing facts and outrageous lies during a series of different rounds including "Home Truths", "This Is My..." and "Quickfire Lies". It is up to the opposing team to tell tall tales from fantastic facts.

Drama Series - 2005, 16 episodes • as Self
Mock the Week is a British topical celebrity panel game hosted by Dara Ó Briain. The game is influenced by improvised topical stand-up comedy, with several rounds requiring players to deliver answers on unexpected subjects on the spur of the moment.

Drama Series - 2003, 16 episodes • as Self - Contestant
Celebrity Mastermind is a British television quiz show broadcast by BBC television. The show is a spin-off of the long-running quiz show Mastermind, with the exception that all the contestants are celebrities. As with the main show, John Humphrys is the host and question-master. Magnus Magnusson was quizmaster on the 2003/04 episodes featuring Jonathan Meades as winner.

Drama Series - 2017, 16 episodes • as Self - Contestant
Each week a group of four famous faces go toe to toe in testing their general knowledge skills in a variety of entertaining games.

Drama Series - 2019, 16 episodes • as Self - Contestant
Music quiz in which contestants try to recognise as many hit songs and artists as possible, under intense pressure.

Drama Series - 2021, 16 episodes • as Self - Participant
Romesh Ranganathan takes charge of the back-stabbing big money game show. Can the contestants create a chain of answers and avoid the boot?

Drama Series - 2014, 16 episodes • as Self
One of Britain’s favourite comedians doing what he does best – being funny. But Alan Davies isn’t on a stage, or behind his QI desk sparring with Stephen Fry, or even wearing his Jonathan Creek duffle coat… instead, Alan is at his most relaxed and most natural – sitting around chatting with some of his best comedian friends.

Drama Series - 2026, 16 episodes • as Self - Guest
Competing comedians as they try to convince a live studio audience of their most outrageous and unacceptable opinions. Hosted by Ed Gamble, with team captains Richard Ayoade & Joanne McNally.

Drama Series - 2004, 16 episodes • as Himself
A British stand-up comedy programme performed from the Hammersmith Apollo Theatre in west London.

Drama Series - 2004, 16 episodes • as Self - Presenter
A British stand-up comedy programme performed from the Hammersmith Apollo Theatre in west London.

Drama Series - 2019, 16 episodes • as Self
Hosted by Josh Widdicombe and James Acaster, top comedians are posed absurd hypothetical situations and scored on how well they would deal with them. Over three rounds, two teams of comedians must think fast as they are faced with a series of completely made-up scenarios and interrogated on their approach to each one. Host Josh Widdicombe poses the questions and interrogates the guests' methods, whilst James Acaster, as arbiter of the Hypotheticals, deals with the guests quibbles and queries and doles out the points.

Drama Series - 2014, 16 episodes • as Self - Panelist
Virtually Famous was a British comedy panel game show with games based upon social media posts and videos.

Drama Series - 2024, 16 episodes • as Self
Catch up from the castle. The latest banished and murdered have their say with Ed Gamble. How will they react to the betrayals, revelations, mind games and manipulations?

Drama Series - 2018, 16 episodes • as Self
Roast Battle is a British roast comedy show that is broadcast on Comedy Central. The show is hosted by Jimmy Carr and features comedians facing each other in roast battles. The show was created by American comedians Jeff Ross and Brian Moses and is based on their Comedy Central series Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle on which Carr has appeared as a contestant.

Drama Series - 2019, 16 episodes • as Self
A new approach to stand up and sketch comedy, featuring established routines by some of the nation’s most popular comedians alongside brand new material from Britain’s up and coming talent. Each sketch starts on stage with a comedian telling their story, before it transforms into a surreal dramatisation of the material with the comedian playing themselves alongside comedic actors and all dialogue being lip-synced.

Drama Series - 2020, 16 episodes • as Self
Packed with plenty of take-away trivia, Guessable involves two celebrity teams competing to identify the famous name or object inside a mystery box. Sara Pascoe hosts the show with John Kearns on hand as her assistant. Alan Davies and Darren Harriott are the team captains, in a format that puts a twist on classic family games.

Drama Series - 2018, 16 episodes • as Self - Guest
Ever worried about laboratory-grown meat, accidentally touching someone’s hand on the train or the impending nuclear apocalypse? Then join Jon Richardson as he hilariously works out exactly how worried the British public should be about everything there is to worry about.

Drama Series - 2021, 16 episodes • as Self
In every episode Richard invites three comedians to join his Question Team. In a brazen act of indolence, Richard is outsourcing the lion's share of the preparation to his guests by demanding they each bring a unique round of questions, inspired by their own interests for him and the others to play.

Drama Series - 2017, 16 episodes • as Liam
From the moment of climax we see couples in the sweaty, regretful, nervous and often unsatisfying aftermath of sex.

Drama Series - 2020, 16 episodes • as Self
Comedian Jon Richardson presents a weekly digest of the world's wildest television, giving his take on curious headlines, hilarious clips, terrible soap opera acting and more.

Drama Series - 2024, 16 episodes • as Self - Guest
Host Rosie Jones pits Katherine Ryan and Judi Love's teams against each other in judging 'Rosie's Regulars'. Comedians compete in hilarious rounds, before one of the regulars play for a cash prize.

Movie - 2025, 2h 15m • as Self
The Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning, total sell-out, global cult sensation is coming to the Eventim Apollo for its biggest and most spectacular show yet. CLASH OF THE COMICS is an epic, jaw-dropping night in which the biggest names in comedy really – yes, really – step into the ring, to take on each other and some of the UK’s biggest and best professional wrestlers

Movie - 2021, 2h 15m • as Self
A series of sketches taken from the recently-unearthed Morecambe & Wise tape that contained footage which had not been seen for 50 years, and was believed to have been lost forever. The newly discovered half-hour show featured a series of gag-packed routines involving stage curtains, ventriloquism and a daring sketch in which Eric eavesdrops on a newly wedded couple in the flat next door. Now, contributors including Jonathan Ross, Ben Miller and Eddie Izzard look back at this rare slice of classic comedy once again.

Drama Series - 2021, 16 episodes • as Self
Fern Brady, Darren Harriott and Ivo Graham travel across the nation discovering and interrogating the stereotypes and traditions that make up British life today and, in the process, create their very own 'brutally honest' guide to the UK.

Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • as Graham Young
When members of a workforce began falling violently ill, locals believed a virus was sweeping the area, but after the death of two men it became clear that the only impurity was a serial poisoner with a toxic past.

Movie - 2022, 2h 15m • as Self
It's back. The biggest show in the history of Edinburgh - now in the biggest room at the Assembly Hall. Comedians. Wrestlers. Blood. Book now. In aid of Comic Relief.

Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • as Himself
Lockdown is over, the boy is back in town: after two years of global/domestic chaos, Ivo blasts through his most urgent concerns of the early 2020s, plus a few from the late 1990s, in a critically acclaimed show ("mastering his craft with motormouthed finesse...if self-deprecation were a sport, Graham would have a gold medal round his neck": The Times), beautifully filmed in London at the end of his "My Future, My Clutter" UK tour, with a freshly ironed shirt, a handful of schoolboy stories and a really quite outlandish amount of lamps on the stage.