Charlie Talbot is a stand-up comedian and writer who is now regularly paid to talk out loud for 20 minutes around the country. After spending a year abroad he returned to the stage at Edinburgh in 2011 as one half of Battle Of Britain: North vs South - a new show of jokes, games and audience participation with Dave Gibson, as well as various late-night performances around the festival. Chortle hailed Battle of Britain as “an hour of exceedingly engaging comedy, reminiscent of Reeves & Mortimer at their best”.

2010 was a landmark year for Talbot with his debut solo hour at Edinburgh earning rave reviews from Broadway Baby and Big On Glasgow. It was also quite liked by Jay Richardson in The Scotsman and confused the hell out of some poor sensitive soul from Three Weeks. He also reprised North-South Divide with professional Northern idiot Dave Gibson and even got a drunk Spank! crowd to recreate his teenage rocknroll years.

It all began in 2007 when Charlie quite literally ambled onto the London comedy scene showcasing his uncanny ability to stand up and talk into a microphone in front of a room full of people. Or indeed in front of a room with a couple of people in it. He has spent the last four years developing this ability in towns and cities the length and breadth of England. (He has no axe to grind with Wales, he’s just not been booked to play there yet).

In 2009 he made his Edinburgh debut in two guises, performing stand-up in North-South Divide with Dave Gibson and premiering the extraordinary Blow Up! The Credit Crunch Musical, which he wrote and in which he starred as German alter-ego Max Klein alongside the wonderful Oompah Brass. The show explained the financial collapse through the medium of oompah. Obviously.

Kate Copstick called Blow Up! “glorious” in a five-star review in the Scotsman, adding, “If you invest in a ticket you will never regret it.” Scotland on Sunday proclaimed, “The show is a work of genius.” Blow Up! subsequently transferred to London in autumn 2009 for acclaimed runs at The King’s Head, Upper Street and The Leicester Square Theatre. A national tour for Blow Up is still under discussion.

When not oompah-ing, Charlie reverts to an English accent for stand-up engagements in London and farther afield. He also finds himself in regular demand as a taxi service for fellow acts, priding himself in offering a steady hand on the wheel and a sympathetic ear during interminable hours on Britain’s cone-infested motorways.

Meanwhile, nationwide audiences have marvelled at Charlie’s ability to stand upright while utilising well-constructed sentences and impeccable grammar to provoke sporadic outbreaks of laughter. If he has any spare time, you might also spot him at a poker table either virtually or in three tactile dimensions.

To pass the time before his next appearance, feel free to browse the site to find out more about the man, ponder dejectedly if he will ever get into the swing of regular blogging, subscribe to his rather-more-frequently-updated twitter and check the gig-listings.

If you have something to get off your chest, click here to email Charlie.