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On BBC Three's ''Free Speech'', she suggested armed drug dealers should be helped rather than sent to prison.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSnNZ_SdLcY|title=Peter Hitchens on Free Speech (24/04/2014)|website=www.youtube.com}}</ref>
On BBC Three's ''Free Speech'', she suggested armed drug dealers should be helped rather than sent to prison.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSnNZ_SdLcY|title=Peter Hitchens on Free Speech (24/04/2014)|website=www.youtube.com}}</ref>


In 2016, along with numerous other celebrities, Vidal toured the UK to support [[Jeremy Corbyn]]'s bid to become [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]].<ref name="jc4pmtour">{{cite web|url=http://www.jc4pmtour.com/|title=#JC4PM|location=|publisher=jc4pmtour|date=28 July 2015|accessdate=15 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170701133711/http://jc4pmtour.com/|archive-date=1 July 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="telegraph">{{cite news |last=Wilkinson|first=Michael|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/Jeremy_Corbyn/12134051/Celebrities-to-tour-Britain-in-Jeremy-Corbyn-For-Prime-Minister-musical-show.html|title=Celebrities to tour Britain in 'Jeremy Corbyn For Prime Minister' musical show|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=1 February 2016|accessdate=15 July 2017}}</ref>
In 2016, along with numerous other celebrities, Vidal toured the UK to support [[Jeremy Corbyn]]'s bid to become [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]].<ref name="jc4pmtour">{{cite web|url=http://www.jc4pmtour.com/|title=#JC4PM|location=|publisher=jc4pmtour|date=28 July 2015|accessdate=15 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170701133711/http://jc4pmtour.com/|archive-date=1 July 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="telegraph">{{cite news |last=Wilkinson|first=Michael|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/Jeremy_Corbyn/12134051/Celebrities-to-tour-Britain-in-Jeremy-Corbyn-For-Prime-Minister-musical-show.html|title=Celebrities to tour Britain in 'Jeremy Corbyn For Prime Minister' musical show|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=1 February 2016|accessdate=15 July 2017}}</ref> Vidal presents her own YouTube podcast named Black Woman's Hour.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPv7I5fBUUk8aN5Q0jz_Z1g|title=Black Womans Hour Youtube Channel (23/10/2021)|website=www.youtube.com}}</ref>


==Personal life==
==Personal life==

Revision as of 23:21, 23 November 2021

Ava Vidal
Birth nameAva Beverley Vidal
Born1976 (age 47–48)
Lambeth, London, England
Medium
NationalityBritish
Genres
Children3
Websitewww.avavidal.co.uk

Ava Beverley Vidal (/ˈeɪvə vɪˈdɑːl/; born 1976 in Lambeth, London)[1] is an English comedienne. She has taken part in E4's Kings of Comedy.[2] Her career in comedy began on the BBC's Urban Sketch Show.[3]

Life and career

In 1996,[4] Vidal began working as a prison officer at HM Prison Pentonville in Barnsbury, North London.[5] She was inspired to go into the field by her mother, who worked at HM Prison Holloway.[4] Vidal decided to quit the prison profession in 2001 to go to university and study law. Around this time, she also began writing comedy material.[4]

Vidal appeared in 28 Acts in 28 Minutes and The Comic Side of 7 Days in 2005. She has also been involved in other BBC shows including The Last Laugh, The Sack Race and The Crouches. Vidal was a housemate in Kings of Comedy on E4, and Channel 4 made a documentary about her called From the Top, a half-hour show explaining her journey in comedy so far and how she became a comedian.

Vidal was on the line-up of Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow in Swansea that aired on 27 June 2009,[6] BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz in February and October 2010, and appeared four times on BBC Two's Mock the Week between 2011 and 2013.[7] In July 2012, she appeared on Is Football Racist? on BBC Three.[8]

On BBC Three's Free Speech, she suggested armed drug dealers should be helped rather than sent to prison.[9]

In 2016, along with numerous other celebrities, Vidal toured the UK to support Jeremy Corbyn's bid to become Prime Minister.[10][11] Vidal presents her own YouTube podcast named Black Woman's Hour.[12]

Personal life

Vidal has three children, two daughters and a son. Her eldest daughter, Shaquelle, died in April 2018.[13]

References

  1. ^ "Learning - From the Top". Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  2. ^ Plunkett, John (8 October 2004). "Kings of Comedy fail to see the funny side". The Guardian.
  3. ^ "Explore". Channel 4. Archived from the original on 2005-03-16. Retrieved 2011-06-28.
  4. ^ a b c Benjamin, Alison (18 August 2004). "Ava Vidal". Retrieved 15 January 2019 – via www.theguardian.com.
  5. ^ "Prison 'no holiday camp' says ex-officer". BBC News. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  6. ^ "One Programmes - Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow, Series 1, Swansea". BBC. Retrieved 2011-06-28.
  7. ^ "BBC Two - Mock the Week, Series 12, Episode 4". BBC. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  8. ^ Vidal, Ava (13 July 2012). "Ava Vidal: It is time for the Civil Rights Movement to hit the football pitch". The Independent. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  9. ^ "Peter Hitchens on Free Speech (24/04/2014)". www.youtube.com.
  10. ^ "#JC4PM". jc4pmtour. 28 July 2015. Archived from the original on 1 July 2017. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  11. ^ Wilkinson, Michael (1 February 2016). "Celebrities to tour Britain in 'Jeremy Corbyn For Prime Minister' musical show". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  12. ^ "Black Womans Hour Youtube Channel (23/10/2021)". www.youtube.com.
  13. ^ Marshall, Francesca (17 October 2018). "Mock The Week panelist fights High Court battle with ex over right to spread ashes of her daughter". Retrieved 15 January 2019 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
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