Have you ever done anything wrong?
Alexandra Haddow has; relationships, sex, feminism, kids, even dancing.
The only thing she’s gotten right was writing a show about it, and losing her virginity.
Where we want to be seen publicly as good, nothing in life is black and white, and the grey part is a lot more fun.
Enjoy Haddow as she puts it all on the line in the name of laughter courtesy of her debut comedy special Not My Finest Hour.
Her hotly anticipated debut show, Not My Finest Hour, sold out its entirety at the Edinburgh Fringe 2023, including two extra shows. The show received critical acclaim, after previously being nominated for Best Debut Show at Leicester Comedy Festival Awards 2023. She performed the show across the UK in 2024. 2024 saw her return to the Edinburgh Fringe with her critically acclaimed sophomore show Third Party. She will be taking the show on her debut UK tour in 2025.
Originally from the East Midlands and the first in her family to go to university and pursue a career in the arts, Alexandra hilariously skewers the juxtaposition of her working-class upbringing and her current life as an East London based, freelance writer and comedian.
Alexandra has a growing social media following, having racked up over 2 million views online with, with her acerbic tweets and videos regularly going viral. She has appeared on Comedy Central Live, with her radio credits including appearances on BBC6 Music, BBC Radio 4 Extra’s Comedy Club with Arthur Smith, the Moon Under Water Podcast with John Robins, Fit and Proper Podcast with Rhys James and Lloyd Griffith and with Peter Crouch on the series Save Our Beautiful Game (Discovery+), and in 2023 she won the inaugural West End Comedy Club Working Class Bursary and was shortlisted for the 99 Club Female and Non-Binary Comedians Programme.
Alexandra work as a writer has seen her contribute to Have I Got News For You, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Refinery29, Time Out, Metro and Independent magazines. She is a regular columnist for Sunday Times Style, London Evening Standard, Why Now Magazine and has been a columnist for NME, as well as joke writing for brand campaigns including Bumble and Cubitts.
She also runs the cult hit indie, rock and roll and britpop club night, Indie Amnesty, which has held sold out shows in London, Barcelona, Margate and Glasgow.
