Marina O’Shea is a comic who mixes sharp observation, playful storytelling with flashes of character comedy. Her work finds humour in the absurdities of everyday life, delivered with warmth, wit and a quietly mischievous edge.
A regular on comedy line-ups across the UK, Marina moves easily between grounded stand-up and heightened comic moments. She’s written for The What The Frock! Book of Funny Women and performed with various stage and screen companies.
Marina began her comedy life as one half of the acclaimed sketch duo O’Shea & O’Gaukroger, described as ‘like Morecombe and Wise. But with boobs.’ ‘a young Wood & Walters’ and ‘the funniest women in the world’ (David Quantock – writer, The Thick Of It, Harry Hill’s TV Burp, Smack the Pony’). Finalists for Bath Comedy Festival Best New Act, the duo toured nationally with multiple shows, their work featured on BBC Radio Bristol and screened at the London Short Film Festival, and were praised for surreal, character-driven comedy and a fresh female-led perspective.
Now working solo, Marina creates smart, playful comedy that’s unapologetically human and instantly relatable – often finding laughs in the things we pretend not to notice.
It All Started With An Aubergine
Check out my YouTube Channel for clips of my live gigs and film series funnies. I’ve been able to work with some brilliant beans on my comedy wanderings, including The Ambigious A – a wonderful outtake screenshot below from a series we worked on called ‘ARRRRRT’. A big thank you to our Director and cameraman, Christopher Jarvis for his hard work on helping us to create that series.
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The character that started it all…
Marina O'Shea 