Evans is an established UK comedian with his own BBC Radio 4 series Simon Evans Goes to Market, and with numerous TV appearances to his name. He was on Live at the Apollo and was a weekly regular on Stand Up for the Week. TV appearances have also included Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow in Sunderland and Edinburgh Comedy Fest Live. A look at the economics behind everything from sugar, alcohol, coffee, land, gold, social media and even birth, marriage and death, Simon Evans Goes to Market returned for a fourth series to BBC Radio 4 in Spring 2018. A prolific live act, Simon toured his show Fringe Magnet in 2010–11, Friendly Fire 2011–2012, then Leashed which debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe in August 2013. In 2018 Simon toured his show Genius which garnered four-star reviews at Edinburgh in 2017 and was described in The Scotsman as an "extraordinarily accomplished hour… a masterclass in socio-political comedy". In early 2010, Simon Evans supported Lee Mack on his UK tour – Going Out and as a writer has made a long running contribution to Lee Mack's BBC sitcom Not Going Out. He has performed one-man shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe since 2000 and at the New Zealand Comedy Festival 2002, Cape Town Comedy Festival 2001 as well as in Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, Beijing, Winnipeg and Dubai. In July 2004 he performed at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal, and the following spring at the Aspen Comedy Festival in Colorado. Since July 2010 when he appeared alongside Emo Philips at Latitude Festival in Suffolk he has returned to Latitude on several occasions. In early 2018, after an appearance on BBC R4 The News Quiz, Simon Evans was referred to by Rod Liddle in The Spectator as a right-wing comedian. Dominic Maxwell in The Times described Genius as an intelligent, reliably funny show that nods to everything from John Ruskin to PornHub to Ivan Turgenev's two-kilo brain' and notes that 'Evans has fun with the right and the left'. Evans also makes regular contributions in a slightly more serious vein, as a regular guest on current affairs TV shows as well as on live radio, e.g. Radio Five's Afternoon Edition. He was also part of the comedians' team on University Challenge: The Professionals – narrowly beaten by eventual series winners the Ministry of Justice – and has won Celebrity Mastermind : his specialist subject was Ernest Shackleton.
Evans has appeared on The Comedy Store and The Stand Up Show. Evans's other television include shows on the Comedy Network, and appearances on Five's Company and as a contestant on The Krypton Factor.
Evans appears regularly on BBC Radio 4 – hosting and writing seven series of the spoof news showThe Way It Is, as well as appearing on numerous panel games including The News Quiz, Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive and The Unbelievable Truth, and discussion programmes such as Off the Page. He is a regular contributor to both BBC Radio 4 and London Live and has had full-length comedy scripts commissioned by the BBC for both TV and radio.
The Way It Is – Writer and performer
Best Policy – Anchored
True Lies, A world without... and others – Pundit/panellist
Beating the System – Sole writer and performer
Troublestarter – Three part series – Sole writer and performer
