I’m just a girl, standing in front of the internet, asking it to love her.
Rosie Holt is a comedian, actor and writer best known for her viral internet videos on social media skewering the political landscape since the pandemic. Her videos have achieved more than 9 million views. She is the winner of the Chortle Social Media Award 2022 and is a BPG Emerging Creator Nominee.
Rosie has appeared in; Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy (Working Title), The Last Leg (Channel 4), The Russell Howard Hour (Sky Max), The News Quiz, POV, The Naked Week, Ashley Blaker Hyperfixations, POV (Radio 4), and the critically acclaimed two hander theatre show The Crown- Live! (Seabright Productions), a parody of Netflix’s The Crown.
In 2026 she wrote and starred in the play Churchill’s Urinal which ran at The Kings Head, Islington. (“Rosie Holt is superb” – The Spectator.)
Rosie has also toured two live shows ‘That’s Politainment!’ (2024) and ‘The Woman’s Hour’ (2023) based on her online characters, as well as performing at Edinburgh Fringe and Soho Theatre (including on election night 2024).
Rosie’s first book ‘Why We Were Right’, a brilliant satirical take on the Tory government’s time in office, was published by Penguin in 2024.
Reviews
For (her stage show!) Rosie Holt: That’s Politainment!
★★★★
“a pinpoint portrayal of the personae manifesting our national psyche.”
The Observer
★★★★
“Holt perfectly sums up the state we are in, delivering tightly-crafted brutal satire with Orwellian flourishes.”
Evening Standard
★★★★
The Student
“Can Holt’s comedy career survive the advent of a Labour government? On this evidence, you’d fancy her chances.”
The Guardian
For (her Radio 4 sitcom pilot!) Crossing the Floor.
★★★★
The Daily Mail
“In all her glorious inanity, Rosie Holt MP is one of the great satirical creations of the age….(this sitcom is) right on the money.”
The Radio Times
“A timely new sitcom.”
The Times
“A sharp-edged political sitcom.”
The Daily Telegraph
“A witty political comedy.”
The Observer
“The series is sharp and sly, with Holt taking her social media success effortlessly into a longer format.”
The Sunday Times
For (her book!)Why We Were Right by Rosie Holt MP.
“Hilarious and alarmingly close to the bone”
The New European
For (her stage show!) Rosie Holt: The Woman’s Hour.
★★★★★
Lost in Theatreland
★★★★
“A character comedy treat”
Time Out
★★★★
“An hour of daft ‘political discourse’ delivered with all the vivacity and charisma of a labrador puppy”
Broadway Baby
★★★★
The Arts Desk
★★★★
“These characters are so well-observed that I feel they can turn their hand to anything”
I Talk Telly
“The Thick of It levels of writing and performance applied to a very 2022 flavour of political bullshit.”
The Times
”A wonderful showcase for the woman that the pandemic turned into a sensation with her hilarious but also chilling realistic takes on a dissembling rising Tory star.”
The New European
For her Internet Sketches.
“If she can stay in character long enough, she’ll have a Telegraph column & a seat on Question Time by teatime”
James O’Brien
“10 Best Political Comedies”
The Times
“Beautifully observed, performed – and timed – they’ve skewered with such precision the contortions required of the current crop of Tory MPs that they’ve been mistaken for the real thing.“
The Guardian
“Rosie’s finger is always on the pulse”
The Poke
For (her podcast!) Noncensored.
“Weirdly real yet relentlessly silly.”
The Observer
For (her acting role in!) The Crown Dual.
★★★★
“a perky impersonation that also adds some intriguing notes of darkness”
The Guardian
★★★★
“Holt and Murphy turn in bravura comic performances”
Daily Mail
★★★★
“Happy and glorious”
Daily Telegraph