Catherine Bohart

Early life

Catherine Murphy grew up in Clonsilla, Fingal, the daughter of a Catholic deacon. She studied law at University College Dublin for one year before dropping out, then studied French and History at Trinity College. She later earned an MA in Acting for Screen from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. As a debater for Trinity College Dublin, she was judged top speaker in Europe at the European Universities Debating Championships in 2011.

Career

Catherine Bohart first performed stand-up comedy in 2014, and within a couple of years she was a finalist for the BBC New Comedy Award in 2016, followed by a nomination for the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year in 2018. Her writing credits include The Now Show, The News Quiz, and Frankie Boyle's New World Order, and she has opened for both Ellie Taylor and Nish Kumar on their tours. Her big professional moment arrived at the 2018 Edinburgh Festival with the show Immaculate, which later became a special on Amazon Prime UK; she then brought that show to London and toured it nationally.

The following year, her second show Lemon debuted at the Edinburgh Festival and went on a tour covering the UK and Ireland. Later shows include This isn't for you and Again with Feelings, the latter earning a nomination for Best Show at the 2024 Edinburgh Comedy Awards and later released as a special on both Bohart's and Soho Theatre's YouTube channels. In 2026, she plans to tour a new show called Borrowing Trouble across the UK and Ireland. On television, she has appeared on Live at the Apollo, The Blame Game, The Stand Up Sketch Show, The Mash Report, Roast Battle, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled, Jon Richardson: Ultimate Worrier, Celebrity Mastermind, Richard Osman's House of Games, The Last Leg, QI, Unacceptable, and Mock the Week.

In 2024, she was part of the Amazon Prime series LOL: Last One Laughing Ireland, and she also acts in the RTÉ programme These Sacred Vows. She is a regular guest on The Guilty Feminist podcast. In 2019, she hosted the BBC Radio 4 Extra podcast Funny from the Fringe. During the COVID-19 lockdown, she and her then-girlfriend Sarah Keyworth created a podcast about relationships called You'll Do.

Alongside Helen Bauer and Andrew White, she launched the online comedy programme Gigless, which won the Chortle Award for Legend of Lockdown. From September 2021 to August 2025, she co-hosted the podcast Trusty Hogs with Helen Bauer. In 2024 and 2025, she led the BBC Radio 4 comedy show TL;DR, which recapped recent news. In 2026, she started the podcast Tonsil Hockey, co-hosted with Olga Koch and focused on the TV show Heated Rivalry; it won the Golden Lobes Best New Show award that same year.

Did You Know?

• Bohart is bisexual.
• She previously dated fellow comedian Sarah Keyworth; they met in 2015 and broke up in 2020.