Jennifer Helen Brister (born 9 February 1975) is a British stand-up comedian, writer and actress from London.
[1] Brister was born in Kingston upon Thames, Greater London, in 1975 to a British father and a Spanish mother.
[6][7] Brister studied drama at Middlesex University, London, where, in the mid-1990s, she took a course in stand-up comedy, the only one of its kind at the time in the UK.
Other famous graduates include Alan Carr, Dan Renton Skinner of the Dutch Elm Conservatoire and Shooting Stars, and Clare Warde of the Runaway Lovers.
"[12] In 2007–2008, Brister worked for BBC Radio 6 Music as a stand-in presenter, and in 2008 she took a show to Edinburgh Fringe Festival called Reception with her comedy partner at the time, Clare Warde.
In 2014, Brister took her fourth show Wishful Thinking to the Free Fringe at Edinburgh, and performed it at Soho Theatre.
She gave a TED talk at Brighton TEDx in 2018 titled "Changing the way we bring up our boys", addressing the cultural and gender norms taught to children.
[17] She is a regular guest on podcasts like The Guilty Feminist, Global Pillage and Drunk Women Solving Crime.
Brister is also a writer and has contributed to Diva, g3, Standard Issue magazine and The Huffington Post.
[23] Her first book, The Other Mother - A wickedly honest parenting tale for every kind of family, was published by Penguin in 2019.