Stand Up Comedy
and MC-ing 

Harriet is a hugely popular stand up comic.

Highlights include: 4 solo shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, UK Funny Women Award semi-finalist, Bath Comedy Award judge, WOMAD festival MC. 

Here’s Harriet in action at the George IV Comedy Club in London, chatting to the audience
about the perils of losing the ‘class toy’ your kid’s been loaned from Junior School.
(warning: contains mild swearing!)

Your next MC

Harriet is a seasoned MC. She brings energy to corporate award ceremonies, engagement to company conferences and smooth segues to festival stages. She’s a safe pair of hands, ready to deal with the unexpected. For example, whilst MCing the WOMAD festival ‘world of words’ tent she kept the crowd enthralled whilst filling in for the headline act when their taxi was thirty minutes late. Corporate clients include ‘This Can Happen’ awards at A&O Shearman, Minds@Work, Keltbray.

Corporate Humour

Harriet transformed her Edinburgh ‘Meno-pause’ show into the corporate-friendly ‘Oestrogen Armageddon’. A frank, funny science-backed show about managing the menopause in the workplace. Corporate clients include Mars, The Wellcome Trust, KPMG, Wavemaker. Harriet also co-hosted public information events with celebrities such as Meg Matthews and clinicians eg from the British Menopause Society.

Neuroscience with lashings of laughs

An award-winning blend of coaching and comedy. Harriet won Creative Bath’s ‘Inspirational person of the year’ trophy in recognition of the public programme of virtual coaching and laughter she provided -  for free - during Covid. Harriet turned this ‘Lockdown Legup’ into an Edinburgh. Practical tips for wellbeing and resilience, all  rooted in genuine neuroscience and psychology, from how to build helpful habits to how to tame your internal critic to what to do when Fate vomits on your duvet.

MENO-Pause

This show explored the joys of the peri-menopause. Broadway Baby review: ‘[Harriet] discusses issues that are too often kept behind closed doors, leaving masses of women feeling isolated about the same problem, and she tackles such taboos in an amusing way… definitely fills a gap in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.’

Hello from The Other Side of 40.

Harriet’s second show explored ageing. Turning 42 was a massive let down for: she didn’t unlock the meaning of life, she just got given some moisturiser. To add insult to injury, one month later Adele brought out her album ‘25’, majoring on the theme of ‘nostalgia’. Harriet was furious: ‘I’m nostalgic for a time when I didn’t have a white streak in my hair - and could enjoy the Gloucestershire countryside without fear of being included in the badger cull.’

Edinburgh Fringe

‘Harriet’s first Edinburgh show was ‘Mummy’s gone a bit parental’. A wry look at parenting, including advice on the top ten best outfits for school mufti day (e.g. Tequila Shot Girl) and how to strike up conversation at a baby group – “I‘ll blow Molly’s nose when I think she’s emotionally ready. Right now I think it would be a violation of her personal power don’t you?”. The show also explored key parenting conundrums, such as: ‘is it ok to febreze a seven year old? Is it ever acceptable to put a vodka miniature in their snack box? And does seeing the Lego movie really qualify as a good night out?

Turnip-Led Weaning

Harriet has also written the hilarious spoof nanny advice book, Turnip-Led Weaning. Described as ‘Supernanny on acid’ it’s a laugh-out-loud parody of mainstream parenting advice. E.g. ‘By all means use a tumble dryer, but you can enhance the parent-child bond quite magically by singing your children’s clothes dry with your warm breath’. ‘Sparky, very funny… amusing throughout’ – Jeremy Strong bestselling author of daft books such as the ‘My brothers’ famous bottom’ series.