Bob “the Cat” Bevan

Bob “the Cat” Bevan MBE the UK’s leading After Dinner Entertainer & Comedian.

Bob is also an Awards & Events Host TV and Radio Presenter and Interviewer, Auctioneer, Speechwriter, Poet, Author, and Journalist.

BOB “THE CAT” BEVAN MBE –one of the most versatile and popular comic entertainers on the after-dinner and conference circuits. Starting with tales about his hopelessness as a goalkeeper he has developed into an all-round comedian, presenter, interviewer, and auctioneer suitable for any audience.

Not only has he appeared with many top comedians from the past – including Sir Ken Dodd, Eric Morecambe, Ronnie Corbett, and Harry Secombe, but also Kevin Bridges, Jimmy Carr, Billy Connolly, Barry Humphries, Miles Jupp, Sean Lock, Jason Manford, Al Murray and Tim Vine to name but a few!

Speaking at the 1980 Footballer of the Year Dinner “changed his life” he says.

Within a year he appeared at an event with Billy Connolly and Jimmy Tarbuck. He has gone on to work with most of his heroes in sport and show business ever since at both sporting and corporate events.

His nickname of “the Cat” comes from his hopeless goalkeeping in the lower teams of Old Wilsonians Football Club but he embraces all sports. He became only the second entertainer to be elected as President of a County Cricket Club, Kent in 2013, The National Sporting Club in 2014, and the only after-dinner speaker honoured by  The Queen.

He has worked all over the world including on several tours of Australia since 1986 and has flown out, especially for events around the Aussie Rules Football Final in 2010 and 2018.

He has spoken at nearly all of the Premier and Football League clubs, every County Cricket Club, over 100 golf clubs, and many hockey and rugby clubs of both codes.

He followed Danny Baker as the Presenter of the original football phone-in “6-0-6” on BBC Radio 5, appeared many times on “Countdown”, Sky Sports, Talksport, with Terry Wogan on BBC 1’s “Aunties Sporting Bloomers” and a Jim Davidson Variety Show, also on BBC 1, alongside Ronan Keating, Bryan Ferry, Status Quo and Jethro.

His interviewees include Peter Alliss, Sir Alex Ferguson, Justin Langer, Sir John Major, Sir Bobby Robson, and Ian Woosnam.

He wrote speeches for William Hague as Leader of the Opposition, Lord Seb Coe, Sir David Frost, and many others.

He has written and performed poems on Ronnie Corbett, Gary Lineker, David Gower, and twice with the late Duke of Edinburgh who wrote a poem about him!  Bob the cat Bevan has also written corporate poems for  British Airways and Rolls Royce.

President Kent County Cricket Club 2013 – President National Sporting Club 2014

Celebrity Ambassador Variety – Member Variety Golf – Grand Order of Water Rats