Comedy

Andrew Zaltzman (born 1974 or 1975) is a British comedian and cricket statistician. His comedy largely deals in topical and sport-related material. He has worked with John Oliver, with their work together including Political Animal, The Department and The Bugle. Since 2016 he has been a cricket statistician for BBC Radio's Test Match Special cricket commentaries, and since 2020 the presenter of Radio 4's The News Quiz. On television, in 2024, he won the eighteenth series of Taskmaster against Babatunde Aléshé, Emma Sidi, Jack Dee and Rosie Jones, famously coining the catch phrase “Nexus of Truth”.