Karl Minns

Karl is a prolific comedy scriptwriter who hails from East Anglia but has never let that stop him.

Karl’s TV credits include “Avenue 5” (HBO), “Have I Got News For You” (BBC1), “Spitting Image” (ITV2), “Matt Forde’s Unspun” (Dave), “The Last Leg” (C4), “Russell Howard’s Good News” (BBC3), “Never Mind The Buzzcocks” (Dave), “8 Out Of Ten Cats Does Countdown” (C4), “Back Of The Net” (Amazon) and “Mock the Week” (BBC2).

He also created and wrote the BBC3 comedy drama series “Mouth to Mouth”.

On radio, Karl has written for “Loose Ends”, “The Naked Week”, “Say the Word”, “Matt Forde’s Focus Group” and “One Person Found This Helpful”. He also created and wrote the Radio 4 comedy series “The Rapid Eye Movement” starring Martin Freeman.

After taking a year out in 2022 to complete an M.A. in scriptwriting, Karl wrote his first film screenplay “The King of Infinite Space” and a further screenplay, with Jason Hazeley, “Summer With Einstein”.

Karl’s first short-play “Captivity” premiered at the Cork Arts Festival in 2022.

His short play “The Unbearable Lightness of Being On The Phone” played at the Pleasance Theatre during the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe. His first solo play “Raining Diamonds” enjoyed a sell-out run at Norwich Playhouse in 2015. His autobiographical show “Sortabiography” opened at Norwich Playhouse in 2017, was revived for a further sell-out run in 2021 and is due to be performed again in 2027.

Back in his native East Anglia, Karl is one half of comedy sketch duo The Nimmo Twins whose “Normal for Norfolk” sketch shows are about to celebrate their thirtieth anniversary. Karl currently has a book deal with Penguin Michael Joseph and his first book, co-written with Jason Hazeley, will be out in Spring 2027.

‘Genius. If comedy was a meritocracy, he’d be a billionaire’ – Matt Forde

‘Karl Minns is a Swiss army-knife joke-machine who mixes metaphors better than I do’ -Al Murray.

Represented by Vivienne Clore