John Michael David Robins (born 4 May 1982) is an English stand-up comedian and radio presenter. Early life Robins was born and grew up in Bristol and was educated at The Castle School in Thornbury, South Gloucestershire and at St Anne's College, Oxford, where he read English, having reapplied to Oxford after an initial unsuccessful application the previous year. After graduating from Oxford, Robins returned to Bristol, where in 2006, he shared a flat with fellow comedians Jon Richardson, Russell Howard and Mark Olver. Career Robins began performing comedy in 2005, and soon reached the semi-finals of the So You Think You're Funny competition at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In 2007, he participated in the "Comedy Zone" showcase at the festival. Robins appeared both as guest and as co-presenter on both The Russell Howard Show and The Jon Richardson Show on BBC 6 Music (2007–2010). In 2011, Robins performed stand-up on Russell Howard's Good News. On television he has also appeared on Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled (twice, plus the unaired pilot), Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week, Live from the BBC, Celebrity Deal or No Deal with Sarah Millican and on the 2013 Christmas mash-up of 8 Out of 10 Cats and Deal or No Deal. Robins also appeared on several radio programmes, including Matt Forde's Talksport show, BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth and BBC Radio Wales's What's the Story? In February 2014, he started hosting the Elis James and John Robins show on XFM (now Radio X) with fellow comedian Elis James. In August 2014, the show moved to Saturdays, and was broadcast weekly 1-4pm. It is also a popular podcast with over 12 million downloads as of July 2017. Robins performed in New Zealand for the first time in May 2014 during the NZ International Comedy Festival, with the show Where Is My Mind? In the second half of 2016, Robins embarked on a tour show with co-host Elis James called "The Elis James and John Robins Experience". Robins has performed a solo show at the Edinburgh Festival every year between 2009 and 2015, starting with Skinny Love. His subsequent shows were Nomadic Revery (2010), Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (2011), Incredible Scenes (2012), Where Is My Mind? (2013), This Tornado Loves You (2014) and Speakeasy (2015). All shows were also toured around the UK. He has also performed at the Machynlleth