Edward Stephenson Jamison Gamble is an English comedian, known for co-presenting The Peacock and Gamble Podcast and his regular appearances on Mock the Week. He studied at Durham University, where he began his comedy career performing with the Durham Revue, and was a finalist in the 2007 Chortle Student Comedy Awards.
Early life
Gamble was brought up in southwest London. He was educated at King's College School, an independent day school for boys in Wimbledon, followed by Durham University where he studied Philosophy, and met fellow comedians Nish Kumar and Tom Neenan. He was a member of Hatfield College.
Career
Gamble's early work was alongside Ray Peacock, with whom he presented two different series of podcasts, totalling over 100 episodes. He also appeared on television, performing a 15-minute set on the extended version of Russell Howard's Good News in late 2010. He performed with Peacock at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2011, 2012 and 2013. Gamble also recorded a series of radio shows with Peacock on FUBAR Radio. In 2014 Gamble debuted solo at Edinburgh Fringe with the show "Gambletron 5000", returning in 2015 with "Lawman" and in 2016 with "Stampede". His stand-up performances contain much observational comedy, often aimed at himself, including discussion of his diabetes, which he was diagnosed with as a teenager; he chose that as the central topic of his 2018 Edinburgh Fringe show "Blizzard". and his Amazon special, "Blood Sugar" Gamble has been a regular panellist on the BBCpanel showMock the Week since July 2015, and also appeared with Amy Hoggart, in Almost Royal, a faux-reality show on BBC America in the same year. They played a brother and sister, Georgie and Poppy Carlton. The show was shown on E4 in the UK and was followed by a second series in 2016. He has guest-hosted the Elis James and John Robins Show on Radio X in 2017 and 2018. Gamble presents the Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster podcast with fellow comedian James Acaster since 2018, and a weekly Radio X show with Matthew Crosby since 2019. Gamble won the ninth series of Taskmaster in 2019.
Personal life
Gamble has type 1 diabetes, which he has addressed as part of his performances. Ed Gamble is engaged to Charlie Jamison, who works in TV production, who he has been in a relationship with since 2011.
