Robert Wringham

Who is Robert Wringham?

Robert Wringham is a British humorist and magazine editor from Dudley. He is best known as the editor and publisher of New Escapologist magazine.

His comic persona is that of a foppish city-dweller disconnected from and suspicious of nature. He has sardonically described himself as a "repulsive hipster with an exaggerated sense of self-importance" and as a "sarcastic, espresso-drinking Mod." His short humor pieces and other essays often focus on incidents from his indolent urban life.

In 2012, Go Faster Stripe published Wringham's non-fiction book You Are Nothing, a history of Dadaesque comedy troupe Cluub Zarathustra, whose members included Stewart Lee, Simon Munnery, Kevin Eldon, Julian Barratt, Graham Linehan, Sally Phillips and Johnny Vegas.

He is editor and publisher of New Escapologist, a lifestyle magazine founded in 2007, the content of which offers "escape routes from the present-day predicaments of demeaning work, status anxiety and urban lethargy." The tone of the magazine alternates between light humor, black comedy and prescriptive polemic.