Milton Jones is a London stand-up comedian who has built an entire career on the one-liner, packing more puns and surreal images into a set than almost anyone else working today. He performs in a deadpan, faintly bewildered style, topped off by wild hair and a loud shirt, and treats everyday objects and expressions as raw material for a joke that turns them inside out. Since breaking through on the London circuit in the mid-1990s, he has become one of stand-up's most recognisable stylists, admired for a joke-per-second rate few can match.
Milton won the Perrier Award for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe in 1996 and has spent the years since as one of British comedy's most dependable broadcast names. He is a regular panellist on Mock the Week, has appeared on Live at the Apollo, Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow and Would I Lie to You?, and has written and starred in thirteen of his own BBC Radio 4 series, including The Very World of Milton Jones and Another Case of Milton Jones, the latter winning a Silver Sony Radio Academy Award. He remains a regular performer at the Comedy Store.
That rare combination, an enormous, instantly likeable stage presence and a joke rate that keeps every kind of audience on side, makes Milton an excellent booking for corporate dinners, theatre shows and family events alike. His material is clean, fast and endlessly quotable, and he brings decades of stage experience that let him read any room and adjust on the fly. Audiences leave grinning, usually still trying to catch up on the puns they missed.