Alexander Armstrong is an English comedian, actor, television presenter and bass-baritone singer. He is best known as one half of the comedy duo Armstrong and Miller, who starred in four series of Armstrong and Miller and The Armstrong Miller Show.
Alexander will guest star in Mark Evan’s Charles Dickens mash up Bleak Expectations, coming to the Criterions Theatre this Spring. Armstrong will play the narrator, Sir Philip (“Pip”) Bin from 1-6 August 2023.
In 2020, Alexander took over from John Suchet on CLASSIC FM’s to host their flagship weekday mid-morning programme.
He co-presents the hugely popular TV quiz show Pointless, and he continues to be a regular on the BBC series Have I Got News For You, having hosted more than 25 times
In November 2019, he also toured his one-man stage show All Mouth and Some Trousers around the UK, bringing him firmly back to his comedy roots.
After the massive success of the BAFTA-nominated show The Full Monty in 2018, Alexander returned for the third series show The All-New Monty 2019: Who Bares Wins alongside Ashley Banjo. Together they led a new group of celebrities and joined forces to take to the stage and bare all for the biggest and most daring extravaganza to raise awareness of cancers in the intimate areas of the body.
In 2015, having already published three books, two more hit the shelves, The A-Z of Pointless, co-authored with Richard Osman and Land of the Midnight Sun, in which Alexander documented his adventures during his two-month trip to the Arctic for ITV.
Book tickets to Bleak Expectations at the Criterion Theatre London.
Criterion Theatre, London