MCCAUSLAND
Christopher

• 1. TV Career

Christopher John McCausland is an English comedian and actor. He is known to television audiences for his role as Rudi in the CBeebies show Me Too!. He regularly appears at comedy venues around the UK, including The Comedy Store. McCausland is blind due to retinitis pigmentosa.

TV Career

In 2014, McCausland fronted a national television advert for Barclays, promoting the benefits of their new talking cash machines. Also in 2014, he starred in the Jimmy McGovern drama series Moving On, alongside Anna Crilly and Neil Fitzmaurice. In 2012, he appeared alongside fellow comedians in Jimmy Carr's Comedians Special charity episode of Celebrity Deal or No Deal.

He appeared in three series of At The Comedy Store in 2008 for Paramount Comedy as well as in 2010 and 2012 for Comedy Central. In 2010, he featured in BBC One's end of year spoof news review, Unwrapped with Miranda Hart. In 2011, he appeared in ITV's series Stand-up Hero.

McCausland was also one of the principal characters in the CBeebies series Me Too!, playing Rudi the market trader. Filmed in 2006, it aired on CBeebies and internationally until April 2016. On 20 August 2018, he appeared in the long-running BBC soap opera EastEnders.

On 18 October 2019, he appeared on the BBC comedy panel show Would I Lie to You?.

Chris has established himself as a regular panellist on the BBC satirical news show, Have I Got News for You, making six appearances since his November 2019 debut. His most recent appearance was May 2024.

In February 2020, he appeared on an episode of 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown on Channel 4. Despite his poor eyesight, Chris scored highly throughout the episode, playing by memory alone, and even correctly guessed the difficult end of game "Countdown Conundrum" before the sighted panellists. During the show, presenter Jimmy Carr produced blindfolds for the other contestants and encouraged them to try playing without sight.

On 15 January 2021, he appeared again on the BBC One show Would I Lie to You?

In July 2022, Channel 4 announced McCausland would present a four-part travelogue series, provisionally titled The Wonders of the World I Can't See. The series aired in June and July 2023.

In April 2023, he was a contestant in the Channel 4 reality television series Scared of the Dark.

In December 2023, he was a contestant on Richard Osman's House of Games.

In March 2024, he featured in Not Going Out Series 13, Ep 5, "The Train".

On 29 June 2024, his Saturday morning chatshow The Chris McCausland Show premiered on ITV1.

From September 2024 McCausland competed in the twenty-second series of BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, despite never having seen the show, where he was partnered by professional dancer Dianne Buswell. He is the first blind contestant to appear on the show. In week 3 the couple danced a jive to the "Wayne's World Theme" and scored 30 points; in week 4 they danced a salsa to "Down Under" and again scored 30 points; and in week 5 they danced a waltz to "You'll Never Walk Alone" and scored 35 points. The couple became the 100th Strictly couple to perform in Blackpool.