Widdicombe has performed on radio on BBC Radio 4's Arthur Smith's Balham Bash and Absolute Radio's The Frank Skinner Show, written for comedy panel shows Mock the Week, 8 Out of 10 Cats and BBC Radio 4's Look Away Now, and supported stand-up comedians Russell Howard, Michael McIntyre, Alan Carr, Stephen Merchant and Shappi Khorsandi on their respective live tours.
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He then returned for a team task in series two where he was partnered with Richard Osman and Jon Richardson. For one of the tasks, Widdicombe got a tattoo of host Greg Davies's name on his left foot.
In 2015, Widdicombe was a contestant on the first series of the Dave game show Taskmaster and won the series.
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BBC Three ordered a second full series of Josh and third and final series followed in 2017. A full six-episode series of Josh, also directed by Schneider, ran on BBC Three from 11 November to 16 December 2015. In August 2014, Widdicombe starred in the BBC Three "Comedy Feeds" pilot Josh, which he co-wrote with comedian Tom Craine and which was directed by David Schneider. Both hosts announced on 10 August 2016 that they will not be returning to the show for series 14 in September due to their "increasingly busy schedules." On 1 July 2014, the BBC announced Widdicombe would be joining its Radio 5 Live team from August 2014 as the new host of Fighting Talk along with Georgie Thompson. His chosen charity was The Lily Foundation. Widdicombe won Celebrity Mastermind broadcast 31 December 2013 with a score of 24, on the specialist subject of his favourite band, Blur. In 2014 Widdicombe appeared again on Mock the Week and on QI and also made his debut on Have I Got News for You. Following this, he featured as a comedian on The Apprentice spin-off show, The Apprentice: You're Fired! In June 2013 he again appeared as a panellist on Mock the Week, featuring on several episodes of the show's 12th series. In May 2013 Widdicombe was a guest on the second series of Dara Ó Briain: School of Hard Sums with Marcus Brigstocke. A third series started on 31 July 2013, a fourth on 31 January 2014 and a fifth on 1 August 2014. In 2013, Widdicombe was again a regular on The Last Leg, after Channel 4 renewed the show for nine further episodes, beginning on 25 January 2013. He has pectus excavatum, which he discovered after mentioning it to Christian Jessen on an episode of 8 Out of 10 Cats, is asthmatic and has severe hayfever. The pair won £100,000 for their selected charities. In September 2012, Widdicombe appeared on The Million Pound Drop with The Last Leg co-host Brooker.
He also appeared on The Last Leg of the Year, the end of year special of the show. He was also a main contributor to Channel 4's daily alternative review of each day's events at the London 2012 Summer Paralympics, The Last Leg with Adam Hills, alongside Adam Hills and Alex Brooker. In 2012, Widdicombe became a regular on Stand Up for the Week in July he made his debut appearance on Mock the Week. In 2010, Widdicombe worked as a contributor for the Dora the Explorer magazine, and in 2011 he performed his debut solo show "If This Show Saves One Life." at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and was subsequently nominated for Best Newcomer by the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards and for the Malcolm Hardee "Act Most Likely to Win a Million Quid" Award. In 2009 he co-wrote and performed in the sketch show Superclump, and appeared with James Acaster and Nick Helm. Widdicombe began performing live in 2008 and made it to the final of "So You Think You're Funny" at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe during the same year. Widdicombe is related to Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, who owned an estate including the Jacobean style Holland House, London. His 14th great grandmother was Mary Boleyn, sister of Anne Boleyn, and he is a direct descendant of King Edward I who was his 23rd great-grandfather. On a 2021 episode of Who Do You Think You Are? it was revealed that he is potentially a descendant of Henry VIII. He claims ancestry from Sabine Baring-Gould, while research has shown his ancestors were recorded in the Royal Blood of Britain, The Plantagenet Roll – The Isabel of Essex Volume. He is married to Rose Hanson, a television producer, with whom he has a daughter, Pearl Virginia, born in October 2017, and a son, Cassius, born in May 2021. He supports Plymouth Argyle He is a vegetarian. Personal life īefore becoming a comedian, Widdicombe worked as a sports journalist, writing for The Guardian.
He attended Ilsington Church Of England Primary School, South Dartmoor Community College and later studied sociology and linguistics at the University of Manchester.
Widdicombe was born on 8 April 1983 in Hammersmith, London, and grew up in Haytor Vale, near Widecombe-in-the-Moor in Devon.
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