Sophie Duker

Sophie Duker (born 1990) is a British stand-up comedian and writer.
Early life.
Duker was born in London to first-generation immigrants from West Africa. Her mother is from Cameroon and her father is from Ghana. She studied French and English at Wadham College, Oxford. She joined the Oxford Imps in her first year at university.
Career.
An alumna of the Pleasance Comedy Reserve, Duker was shortlisted for the Funny Women award in 2015. She founded and hosted the "Manic Pixie Dream Girls" show as part of Edinburgh's Free Festival in 2016 and 2017.
She has written for the "Huffington Post".
Duker was an assistant producer for "Frankie Boyle's New World Order" and a researcher for "8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown". In 2019, she appeared on "8 Out of 10 Cats", "Frankie Boyle's New World Order", "Dave Gorman: Terms and Conditions Apply", and "Mock the Week", and in 2020 in "8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown".
In 2017, Duker appeared in a Turtle Canyon short entitled "The Dates", which explores bisexual dating culture.
In 2018, Duker set up the comedy night "Wacky Racists", which currently has a monthly residency at 2Northdown in Kings Cross, London, and performs spin-off shows at festivals and events across the UK. In December 2019, Soho Theatre hosted a seasonal Christmas "Wacky Racists" special.
Duker co-starred in the pilot for a hidden camera sketch show on Channel 4 called "Riot Girls" as well as on the Comedy Central UK comedy show "What I Wish I’d Said" in 2018.
Her first stand-up show, "Diet Woke", was premiered in 2018. She took her 2019 show, "Venus", to the Brighton Fringe and the Edinburgh Fringe, performing at the Edinburgh Pleasance from 31 July to 25 August 2019.
In September 2020, during one of Duker's appearances on "Frankie Boyle's New World Order", the host Frankie Boyle proposed the motion "Black Lives Matter Glosses Over The Complexities Of A World Where We All Need To Come Together And Kill Whitey". A clip of Duker making a joke which repeated the phrase "kill whitey"—a phrase pre-approved by the BBC, according to Duker—was widely spread online. Duker joked about the phrase in the context of discussing her views on whiteness and capitalism in response to a 1970s clip of James Baldwin talking about black power. Duker described that "far-right blogs to mainstream tabloids" began covering the story six days after the episode aired, with the "Daily Mail"s Sarah Vine criticising the comments as "hateful dogma", subsequent to which 1,300 complaints were made to the BBC. The BBC responded that the content was "within audience expectations for a post-watershed, topical, satirical programme from a comedian whose style and tone are well-established", later dismissing the complaints. A Greater Manchester police hate crime investigation was opened after a report in early January and closed a week later with no action. Duker was subject to racist harassment on social media over the comments.
Filmography.
Duker has appeared on various shows as a panellist or guest.