BIO
Sofie Hagen is a multi-award-winning comedian, author, and podcaster.
In 2015, Sofie won the Best Newcomer award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for her debut show Bubblewrap. She followed this up with the critically acclaimed sell out shows Shimmer Shatter in 2016, Dead Baby Frog in 2017, The Bumswing in 2019, Fat Jokes in 2022 and Banglord in 2024.
Sofie published her debut book “Happy Fat” in 2019 and created and hosted the wildly successful podcast Who Hurt You?, co-hosted the BBC Sounds Original true crime podcast Bad People alongside Dr. Julia Shaw and is now the co-host and co-creator of literary comedy podcast Help Hole alongside comedian Abby Wambaugh.
She has grown a huge social media following to compliment her podcast audience and is a much in demand speaker and comedian.
PRESS PHOTOS
Please credit all images to Matt Crockett.
QUOTES
★★★★★ “Hilarious… clever, touching and funny”
— The Mirror
★★★★★ “A warm, confident show…Hagen is hilarious”
— The Skinny
★★★★1/2 “Hagen’s debut hour is fantastic… consistently funny, personal, and a slyly powerful show…this certainly is the show of a winner”
— Chortle
★★★★ “A tightly wrapped, beautifully jeweled little investigation into female self-confidence and artistic awakening… a beautiful demonstration of varied joke-writing… comedy gold”
— FestMag
★★★★ “A dark story told lightly and honestly, and with plenty of wry wit… filthy and graphic, but somehow polite”
— Time Out
★★★★ “A charming show, if littered with unexpected filth”
— Sunday Times
★★★★ “Incredibly funny”
— The Herald
★★★★★ “Comedy gold”
— Londonist