DARREN RUDDELL

Creative Director

The roads leading to Serious Comedy were winding, potholed and followed without the use of a sat-nav. They swung past a graphic design degree, careered through the Watford postgraduate advertising & copywriting course, and took an award-winning five-year detour of the UK stand-up comedy circuit. Where night after night the success of an idea would be gauged in howls of laughter or deathly soul-destroying silences. And where professional qualifications and a natural inclination towards humour would come together to create a unique agency and publisher, committed to using humour and wit to communicate important, socially beneficial information.

Thirteen years later, over 250,000 books have been provided to children across the UK, as well as integrated campaigns with executions such as OOH, print, radio, online content, animation and films. He’s won a Bafta Rocliffe Comedy Writing Award and written for CBeebies.

When he’s not coming up with ideas for Serious Comedy, Darren develops sitcom scripts with some of the UK’s largest production companies, writes best man speeches and drinks an inordinate amount of tea. You can catch him here: darren@seriouscomedy.co.uk.