Bunker Talk #172: Daphna Baram

Daphna Baram is a London-based stand-up comedian, researcher and journalist whose work explores stand-up comedy across borders. Her PhD at Lancaster University (2025) focused on how immigrant comedians in the UK negotiate their identities to live audiences in the UK.

She has performed twelve solo shows at the Edinburgh Fringe and regularly appears at festivals and venues across the UK and in Europe. Her comedy engages with politics, body politics, immigration and otherness. She is the author of Disenchantment: The Guardian and Israel and has written extensively about the Middle East conflict. Her current book project, Something to Declare, examines stand-up comedy as a space where cultural authority is contested and redefined in real time. Working between stage and academia, she uses both performance and analysis to explore how humour shapes – and unsettles – ideas of who gets to belong.