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Li Jin Hao
Comedy
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Li Jin Hao is a stand-up comedian and actor known for his surreal, quietly commanding style. Winner of Best Newcomer at the Chortle Awards 2025, he's also a BBC New Comedy finalist and Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee.
Comedian
Actor
Gen Z
AAPI Heritage
Li Jin Hao is a UK-based stand-up comedian, writer, and actor known for a surreal, quietly commanding style shaped by his upbringing across China and Singapore as well as his national service in the Singapore Army.
He won Best Newcomer at the Chortle Awards 2025 and was a finalist for the BBC New Comedy Award, the Channel 4 Sean Lock Comedy Award, and the Edinburgh Comedy Award for his debut hour, Swimming in a Submarine. He has also appeared on Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping and written for the sketch series Icklewick FM.
Jin Hao's comedy blends dreamlike storytelling with unhurried, controlled delivery, moving from spider nightmares to yakuza fantasies without ever losing the room. The Guardian called his debut show a dizzying trip to the deep underwater unknown, and fellow comedians have likened his sensibility to Noel Fielding and Stewart Lee filtered through his own East Asian influences.
Audiences can expect a set built on vivid, controlled storytelling, the same qualities that carried three sold-out weeks at Soho Theatre and a run at Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Jin Hao's tightly structured, image-driven style rewards close listening, turning odd personal details into a fully realised comic world by the time the set ends.
Book Li Jin Hao for a set that turns a room's attention into laughter and leaves a lasting impression.
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Li Jin Hao builds his sets around vivid, image-driven storytelling, threading personal material — spider nightmares, yakuza fantasies, military service — into a single, tightly structured comic world that resolves fully by the close. His delivery is unhurried and controlled, rewarding close listening as each odd detail accumulates into something coherent and distinctly his own.
Li Jin Hao performs stand-up in a surreal, storytelling format, with his debut hour Swimming in a Submarine drawing on his upbringing across China and Singapore and his national service in the Singapore Army. He won Best Newcomer at the 2025 Chortle Awards and was a finalist for the BBC New Comedy Award, the Channel 4 Sean Lock Comedy Award, and the Edinburgh Comedy Award, with the show running for three sold-out weeks at Soho Theatre.
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