Stand-up Comedy
Crowned Comedy Bloomers‘ LGBTQ+ New Comedian of the year 2025 & Komedia‘s New Comedian of the Year 2025.
“Just brilliant world-class jokes with so little space between all of the gags – a professional and absolutely stunning performance.”
Zoe Lyons
“All of your jokes are perfectly constructed, so funny, brilliantly written and surprising. I honestly think you’re ready for Live At The Apollo right now!”
James Barr
I’ve always said that living with any kind of disability or impairment is a phenomenal lesson in the concept of, “If you don’t laugh you cry,” and laughing is by far the more enjoyable choice. I’ve been a storyteller and the butt of my own jokes for years, people have been telling me to write a book, and or try stand-up comedy for many of those years, and I’ve finally done it. I don’t think I need to be a particularly creative writer, the stories of my life write themselves. Things go wrong, I make mistakes, you would too. Just in the last week before writing this, I’ve given one woman a full boob grab while reaching for the hand dryers in a pub toilet and put pepper on my chips instead of salt. What kind of blind person has identical salt and pepper shakers in their own house anyway?
In September 2023, I signed up for a stand-up comedy course with a shrug and the mind-set of, “Why not,” did my first proper gig in November 2023 on a wintery Sunday afternoon after running the Brighton 10K in the morning and literally haven’t looked back. While I told myself I never seriously entertained the thought of comedy becoming a career, I was hooked from the first laugh and knew the first gig absolutely wouldn’t be the last, but even then I had no idea what I had started, or how it would change my life. Throughout 2024 I repeatedly said “If people stop laughing, I’ll stop,” but people kept laughing, so blame them! Really, if you wanted me to bugger off, it couldn’t have been easier.
2025 was a whirlwind and threw two awards, another un-won final and two semi-finals my way, throughout all of which I’ve been pinching myself and saying, “Really? Me?” I’ve well and truly got the bug, I’m addicted to the wonderful feeling of making people laugh, comedy is in me, it’s taken over my life in a massive way, I’m finally accepting that maybe, just maybe I’ve fallen into a career I never thought possible and I’m enjoying every second.
One of my aims with my comedy is to put my audience at ease and let everyone know it’s okay to laugh. I poke fun at myself, my disability and the undeniably comedic situations it often lands me in. I am now recognised for my trademark self-deprecating stories, fearlessly honest observations and, (I am told), my very dry, occasionally cutting, sense of humour.
Sydney May 