Bennet Kavanagh

Winner: Bath Comedy Festival New Act of the Year 2020 Winner: Amused Moose People's Champion 2020

Bennet has been a finalist in - and winner of - numerous national stand-up competitions and has performed regularly at some of the biggest comedy clubs in the UK including the London Comedy Store, Backyard Comedy Club, the Frog and Bucket and Up the Creek. His TV credits include Britain's Got Talent (ITV), as well as writing for DMs are Open (BBC Radio 4Xtra) and composing original comedy songs for Matt Chorley (BBC Radio 5Live). Bennet, a former music teacher, has taken several stand-up and musical shows up to the Edinburgh Fringe. His 2025 debut musical comedy show was described as ‘an uncannily odd, inexplicable delight’, and in 2019 a comedy panel show he was a regular panelist on called Character Building Experience was shortlisted for the BroadwayWorld.com Best Comedy Show. In the same year he was shortlisted for the BAFTA Rocliffe TV Comedy Writing Initiative. As a versatile musician, he also provides music for several improv groups, including the Oxford Imps and ‘Any Suggestions Doctor’, the latter being nominated for Best Improv Show at the Leicester Comedy Festival when he as working with them.