Alasdair Beckett-King

Alasdair Beckett-King is an English stand-up comedian, video game writer, and actor from Durham. He won the 2017 Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year, and Chortle's Breakthrough Comedian of the Year in 2023.

Early life
Beckett-King is half-Scottish. He attended York St John University and graduated in 2012. He holds an undergraduate degree in Politics and an MA in Journalism.

Career
Beckett-King was listed among the finalists of So You Think You're Funny in 2013. He was also among the finalists of NATYS: New Acts of the Year Show in 2014.

Beckett-King won the 2017 Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year.

Beckett-King has appeared on The Comedian's Comedian with Stuart Goldsmith and Unforeseen Incidents. He co-hosts the Loremen podcast with James Shakeshaft.

Beckett-King created the adventure games Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy!, released in 2007, and Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet, released in 2016. He also wrote the script for the adventure game Unforeseen Incidents, released in 2018.

Since 2019, he publishes comedy sketches, which are written, acted, produced and animated by himself, on his YouTube channel.

In 2022, Beckett-King voiced the character of "The Floater" in Doctor Who: Redacted, produced by BBC Studios. He won the award for Breakthrough Act in the 2023 Chortle Awards.

Beckett-King was an occasional panellist on Mock the Week, the British comic news quiz show, most notably appearing in the show's final ever episode.