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Marcus Brigstocke

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Marcus Brigctocke began his comedy career at Bristol University where he performed stand up and character shows and soon won the BBC New Comedian of 1996. He has since emerged as a major comedy, writing and acting talent, performing in the UK and beyond and has become a regular voice on BBC Radio with an impressive list of TV and film credits.

The Edinburgh festival has been a regular haunt for Marcus, and has seen him receive a great deal of critical acclaim. His shows include

2004 - Planet Corduroy - an hour of satirical stand-up
2002 - The Museum Of Everything - Museum-based sketch show, now a major Radio 4 comedy series
2002 - The Award Winning Show - an uproarious satire on the preposterous nature of award shows
2000 - Get A Life and Help Yourself (1999) - Hilarious character comedy on the theme of self help and therapy
1997 - Club Seals Late Night - a sketch show with Danny Robins & Dan Tetsell
1997 - Marcus Brigstocke Stand Up - an hour of new stand up

2005 saw the start of The Late Edition - Marcus's excellent topical talk-show on BBC4. Recent TV appearances also include Live from the Apollo (with Jack Dee), Have I Got News For You, King Stupid for CBBC and a valiant attempt at raising laughs on What's the Problem with Anne Robinson (with varied success). He also played the lead character in BBC3's Vacant Possession, one of the Twisted Tales series. Other acting work includes Adam Savage in Simon Nye's BBC 1 sitcom The Savages, and of course David Oxley (BA Hons) in We Are History, the cult success which has bought him to the attention of many an adoring fan and the odd angry archaeologist.

Radio 4 has become a second home for Marcus as he is rarely off the 18.30 slot in one form or another. He is the regular angry young man on The Now Show with Punt and Dennis. He has written and recorded three series of Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off (Series one - now available on BBC CD) and The Museum Of Everything with Danny Robins and Dan Tetsell. He plays the head of Unthinkable Solutions in Think The Unthinkable. Other recordings include Just a Minute, Newsquiz, The Today Program, and the wonderfully silly 99p Challenge. He played a starring role in the first series of 2000 Years Of Radio and also made Risking Everything, a serious investigation in to the world of insurance.

On the big screen he has appeared in Richard Curtis' movie Love Actually as a Radio DJ interviewing the wonderfully jaded Billy Mack (Bill Nighy). He went to Berlin with Kevin Spacey to film Beyond The Sea - the life story of Bobby Darin. In the forthcoming Piccadilly Jim Marcus appears with Sam Rockwell and Tom Wilkinson as 'man having sex under stairs', a small but vital role. He also played a desperately ambitious and tragically unable arts presenter in A Short Film About John Bolton, directed by Neil Gaiman - available now on DVD - for Ska Films.

2007 saw Marcus take a boat trip along with a number of scientists from Norway to the Arctic. He was keen to see for himself the effects of climate change and global warming on the planet. However, it was a bit of a rough ride and at one point near Greenland, Marcus ended up in the water along with the polar bears. Not to be detered, Marcus was back on another trip in 2008 and in a bigger boat. This trip had around thirty scientists along with thinkers, activists, and even some musicians, including Jarvis Cocker, KT Tunstal, and Martha Wainwright. This expedition had Marcus back in Greenland using his time to explore, whilst doing research and meeting the local Inuit people.

Marcus now lives in South London, happily married to his university sweetheart, and may well be the proudest dad in the world. He is committed to non-violence and is an active campaigner for CND and 'Campaign Against Arms Trade'. He once had a 11 chart smash with DJ Dee-Kline's, Don't Smoke Da Reefa. Without wishing to scrape the barrel further it is worth saying that Marcus very briefly worked as a podium dancer, and also on an oil-rig in the North Sea (although not as a dancer). He is fanatical about snowboarding - so much so he has set up a stand up tour in the Alps - and adores music and movies. Marcus can be seen and heard in venues across the country delivering his award-winning stand up, on screens large and small and on Radio 4 more frequently than the shipping forecast.

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