[2] He was educated at St Paul's School, Manchester University and the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art,[3] studying Italian and drama.
[9] In 2001, he was in the sitcom Sam's Game with Davina McCall, and he played Captain Rimming alongside Pam Ann in Mile High Club, part of Comedy Lab.
[14] Steve Bennett reviewing for Chortle in 2000 said his character comedy, including Upper Class Rapper and Ludwig the Bavarian, was a string of one-liners.
[16] Bennett's review three years later, calling his work "pleasant enough" but lacking an edge, noted he had moved on from being a character comic and decided to instead base his comedy on real life.
[19][20] He began compering in 2003, including at Downstairs at the King's Head in Crouch End, which he called his "favourite venue".
[26] In 2021,[27] he became one of the presenters of GB News' comedy newspaper review programme Headliners,[28][29] with Frisby co-presenting most of the nightly shows alongside BBC Radio 4 comedian Simon Evans.
[30] Frisby uploaded his first song, "Debt Bomb" To YouTube,[31] a satirical comment on government economics.
[39] Critical reception has been mixed: The Spectator's Michael Bywater called it "a magnificent job", further commenting that "since reading Bitcoin I have been thinking about money ... with the same sort of intensity that atheists reserve for their relationship with God",[40] however The Economist mused that "for any book on bitcoin to be worth reading, though, it has to delve further".