Nina Conti

[5][6] She attended King Alfred School, London, and graduated with a first class honours degree in philosophy from the University of East Anglia in 1995.

She appeared as half-Afghan camera operator Azadine in Henry Naylor's play Finding Bin Laden at the 2003 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Conti and her character Monkey portrayed a morning weather team on the fictional "Wake Up L.A." in Christopher Guest's 2006 film, For Your Consideration.

She took her first solo full-length show, Complete and Utter Conti, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2007, where she introduced some new characters as well as performed familiar routines.

On the series 8 premiere of Live at the Apollo, Conti expanded the act to provide voices for two audience members in masks.

[14] Conti appeared as a guest host on the final episode of the ninth series of the BBC stand-up comedy programme, Live at the Apollo, performing her act with Monkey and an additional dummy-mask routine.

In October 2014, Conti appeared on Channel 4's The Feeling Nuts Comedy Night raising awareness of testicular cancer.

[citation needed] In May 2015, Conti appeared on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown in Dictionary Corner and used Fabio, the show's regular prop guy, as a dummy.

[citation needed] Conti's radio work includes Clare in the Community, Sneakiepeeks and guesting on Parsons and Naylor's Pull-Out Sections.

Conti has appeared in a number of diverse forms of media including films, television shows, and shorts, listed below.

Conti often uses this to put the participant in awkward and embarrassing situations, such as making them say that they want nothing more than to dance in front of the audience, while their body language suggests the opposite.