Alison Spittle

She appeared in the 2019 comedy film Extra Ordinary.

Alison Spittle is an Irish comedian, comedy writer, radio producer and actress. She has worked for iRadio, RTÉ Radio 1 and Newstalk and created sketches for Republic of Telly and has written and starred in her RTÉ Two sit-com Nowhere Fast in 2017. She is the host and creator of the Alison Spittle Show podcast hosted by headstuff.org.

In 2017, she co-wrote six-part sitcom Nowhere Fast with her boyfriend Simon Mullholland. The series was directed by Simon Gibney. The show sees Angela (played by Spittle) moving back down to Ballybeag in the midlands, having lost her job on a radio show in Dublin following a high-profile libel case. The series began in November 2017, and was generally well received by critics and viewers.

Her comedy shows have included Alison Spittle Needs an Agent, Alison Spittle Discovers Hawaii (2015), and Worrier Princess (2017). She has performed at the Edinburgh and Dublin fringe festivals, as well as The Forbidden Fruit and Cork Comedy festivals.

Spittle wrote and starred in web comedy shorts for RTÉ Two, and in sketches for Republic of Telly with Kevin McGahern. In 2014 Spittle took part in an RTÉ 2 pilot for Choose or Lose, a panel show hosted by Eoghan McDermott of 2FM, with contestants Fred Cooke, Bryan Quinn, Keith Farnan, Aaron Heffernan and Georgia Salpa.