Jim Judges is a Midlands-based comedian, writer and researcher whose live work explores the craft of character comedy with a gently absurd eye for detail. He is best known for Ian Crawford, Cutlery Safety Expert, a dead-serious health and safety obsessive whose unlikely advice has become a favourite at comedy clubs and festivals.
Judges has taken Ian Crawford to the Edinburgh Fringe and comedy events around the UK. Alongside performing, he researches stand-up character comedy as a part-time PhD student, produces The Character of Comedy podcast and has created shows including Absolute Bus Stops of Northern Europe and Beyond.
Judges is an excellent fit for alternative comedy rooms, festivals and audiences who enjoy a fully realised comic character. His work is inventive, carefully observed and unusual enough to give any bill a genuinely different texture.