About Me

Oh hello. I didn’t see you there.

My name is Robert Wringham. I’m a writer and performer.

I write wonky humour, arrogant polemic, and half-decent literary non-fiction. As a performer, I irritate people with stand-up comedy and performance art.

My first book, You Are Nothing was published by Go Faster Stripe in May 2012. It tells the story of Cluub Zarathustra: the avant-garde early work of comedians Stewart Lee, Roger Mann, Simon Munnery and many others.

I write for the Idler magazine; I edit and publish New Escapologist magazine; I have performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Online, I keep blogs here and here, and contribute to Johua Glenn’s pop culture website HiLobrow. If you like podcasts, there’s also the hard-on-the-ears Punch and Judy Show I do with my friend Daniel Godsil.

I’ve written for print and online magazines like Meat, tMCQ, Verbicide, CACTUS, Side Street Review, and the British Comedy Guide.

I sometimes abuse my position as a media man to meet my heroes. Such interviews have included Alain de Botton, Momus, Poly Styrene, Stewart Lee, and Ian Macpherson among others. I’ve also written plays, burlesques, and journalistic things.

I’ve performed to delighted and horrified audiences at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, the Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Arts, Mainline Theatre in Montreal, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and in Katy McCaulay’s back garden.

I grew up in Dudley before escaping in 2004. I currently live between Glasgow and Montreal. I like to wear a tie. I listen to jazz music and eat a lot of fruit. My name comes from James Hogg’s Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.