Desiree Burch

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Desiree is an American comedian and television host who lives in the UK. She won the Funny Women awards in 2015. Prior to working as a comedian, Burch attended Yale University where she earned a degree in theatre and worked as a dominatrix.

Burch was a founding member of the New York Neo-Futurists, and upon moving to London became the founding Artistic Director of Degenerate Fox Theatre.

She has appeared on Live at the Apollo, Have I Got News for You, QI, The Mash Report, The Russell Howard Hour, The Fake News Show, Chris Ramsey’s Stand Up Central, Frankie Boyle’s New World Order, Mock the Week, American Autopsy, and Richard Osman’s House of Games. She also plays Pamela Winchell, the former Mayor of Night Vale and current Head of Emergency Press Conferences, in Welcome to Night Vale.

Burch hosts Flinch, a physical game show on Netflix, alongside Seann Walsh, and Lloyd Griffith. Desiree’s Coming Early was a 31-date UK tour in 2019, with support from comedian Ingrid Dahle.

In 2020 she became the narrator for Netflix’s reality television dating show Too Hot to Handle.

In 2020 she appeared as a contestant in BBC’s I’ll Get This, in which participants play games during dinner to avoid paying the bill. In 2021 she was a contestant on the BBC Best Home Cook show.

She is scheduled to appear on season 12 of Channel 4’s Taskmaster.

[Source: Wikipedia, 29/06/2021.]