Dave Chawner

Mock The Week BBC

Dave Chawner is a stand-in for BBC's Mock The Week & Channel 4's Taskmaster, a regular Friday presenter on The Talk Radio Breakfast Show with Julia Hartley-Brewer and has regularly appeared on BBC Breakfast, ITV's Lorraine, Jermey Vine on 5 , Radio 1, Radio 2, Radio 4

Dave is also a number 1 best-selling author, award-winning stand up, presenter & mental health campaigner.  His first 1st Edinburgh show, Normally Abnormal sensitively used humour to explore his anorexic past. The show received critical acclaim , had sell-out shows and went on UK tour.

As a result, the show was given an award by The UK's Eating Disorder Charity  at The Houses Of Parliament in 2014.

Dave had anorexia for nearly 10 years before seeking treatment. He found it difficult to explain what was going on. Being a professional comic he used the tools at his disposal - humour - to help him understand, accept and explain his eating disorder. 

In 2015 Dave was asked to give a Ted Talk on the topic of eating disorders. This caught the attention of a publisher and he was asked to write a book based on his experiences. This became Weight Expectations , part memoir, part self-help guide aiming to engage, entertain and educate people about anorexia.

​​Since then Dave has gone on to do shows about adult circumcision, veganism, philosophy and Mental Health 

Dave now uses comedy in order to talk about mental health (rather than mental illness) to engage hard to reach groups, help vulnerable people and lead with positivity rather than negativity. 

More recently In 2023 Dave won the Pegasus' Comedy Awards 'Ongoing Comedian Of The Year' at The Edinburgh Fringe.