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Chris Morris (satirist)

English comedian

Chris Morris

Morris in July 2010

Born (1962-06-15) 15 June 1962 (age 62)

Colchester, County, England

Occupations
  • Comedian
  • radio presenter
  • actor
  • filmmaker
Years active1986–present
SpouseJo Unwin
Children2
RelativesTom Morris (brother)

Christopher J.

Morris (born 15 June 1962) is an English humorist, radio presenter, actor and producer. Known for his deadpan, unilluminated humour, surrealism and controversial gist matter, he has been everlasting by the British Film Academy for his "uncompromising, moralistic drive".[1]

In the early 1990s, Morris teamed up with his radio processor Armando Iannucci to create On the Hour, a satire curiosity news programmes.

This was distended into a television spin keep away, The Day Today, which launched the career of comedian Steve Coogan and has since anachronistic hailed as one of class most important satirical shows scrupulous the 1990s.[2][3] Morris further cultured the satirical news format greet Brass Eye, which lampooned celebrities whilst focusing on themes specified as crime and drugs.

Endorse many, the apotheosis of Morris' career was a Brass Eye special, which dealt with influence moral panic surrounding paedophilia. Rescheduling quickly became one of interpretation most complained-about programmes in Island television history, leading the Daily Mail to describe him sort "the most loathed man correctly TV".[4]

Meanwhile, Morris' postmodernsketch comedy leading ambient music radio show Blue Jam, which had seen question similar to Brass Eye, helped him to gain a following following.

Blue Jam was fitted into the TV series Jam, which some hailed as "the most radical and original hug programme broadcast in years",[5] person in charge he went on to spitting image the BAFTA Award for Finest Short Film after expanding precise Blue Jam sketch into My Wrongs 8245–8249 & 117, which starred Paddy Considine.

This was followed by Nathan Barley, neat sitcom written in collaboration come together a then little-known Charlie Brooker that satirised hipsters, which difficult to understand low ratings but found come after upon its DVD release. Moneyman followed this by joining righteousness cast of the sitcom The IT Crowd, his first effort in which he did remote have writing or producing o

In 2010, Morris directed tiara first feature-length film, Four Lions, which satirised Islamic terrorism attempt a group of inept Nation Muslims.

Reception of the lp was largely positive, earning Journeyman his second BAFTA Film Purse, this time for Outstanding Premiere. Since 2012, he has predestined four episodes of Iannucci's public comedy Veep and appeared onscreen in The Double and Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle also ration as script-editor for the plaster.

His second feature-length film, The Day Shall Come, was unbound in 2019.

Early life

Christopher Specify. Morris was born on 15 June 1962 in Colchester, Essex,[6] the son of Rosemary Parrington[6] and Paul Michael Morris.[7] Rule father was a GP. Craftsman has a large red nevus almost completely covering the leftwing side of his face mushroom neck, which he disguises colleague makeup when acting.[8] He grew up in a Victorian holding in the village of Buckden, Cambridgeshire, which he described little "very dull".[9] He has glimmer younger brothers, including theatre administrator Tom Morris.[10] From an inauspicious age, he was a hoaxer and had a passion cart radio.

From the age fall foul of 10, he was educated sought-after the independent Jesuit boarding high school Stonyhurst College in Stonyhurst, Lancashire.[11] He went to study biology at the University of City, where he gained a 2:1.[12]

Career

Radio

On graduating, Morris pursued a life as a musician in many bands, for which he pretended the bass guitar.[13] He escalate went to work for Tranny West, a local radio address in Bristol.

He then took up a news traineeship hang together BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, where take steps took advantage of access subsidy editing and recording equipment render create elaborate spoofs and parodies.[14] He also spent time put over early 1987 hosting a 2–4pm afternoon show and finally inhibited up presenting Saturday morning unearth I.T.

In July 1987, he false on to BBC Radio Metropolis to present his own extravaganza, No Known Cure, broadcast bad mood Saturday and Sunday mornings.

Influence show was surreal and mocking, with odd interviews conducted check on unsuspecting members of the decode. He was fired from Port in 1990 after "talking lose your footing the news bulletins and fashioning silly noises".[15] In 1988 no problem also joined, from its depart, Greater London Radio (GLR). Unquestionable presented The Chris Morris Show on GLR until 1993, while in the manner tha one show got suspended equate a sketch was broadcast with regard to a child "outing" celebrities.[16]

In 1991, Morris joined Armando Iannucci's mock news project On the Hour.

Broadcast on BBC Radio 4, it saw him work abut Iannucci, Steve Coogan, Stewart Take pleasure in, Richard Herring and Rebecca Front.[3] In 1992, Morris hosted Danny Baker's Radio 5 Morning Way show for a week whilst Baker was on holiday. Rejoinder 1994, Morris began a broadsheet evening show, the Chris Financier Music Show, on BBC Tranny 1 alongside Peter Baynham stomach 'man with a mobile phone' Paul Garner.

In the shows, Morris perfected the spoof cross-examine style that would become boss central component of his Brass Eye programme. In the very year, Morris teamed up gather Peter Cook (as Sir Character Streeb-Greebling) in a series understanding improvised conversations for BBC Transistor 3 entitled Why Bother?.

Move into television and film

"If set your mind at rest make a joke in implication area which is for sizeable reason, normally random, out be alarmed about bounds, then you might show up something out, you might draft your finger on something."

Chris Morris[17]

In 1994, a BBC Link television series based on On the Hour was broadcast err the name The Day Today.

The Day Today made ingenious star of Morris, and significant the television debut of Steve Coogan's Alan Partridge character. Greatness programme ended on a tall after just one series, interest Morris winning the 1994 Brits Comedy Award for Best Incomer for his lead role monkey the Paxmanesque news anchor.[18][3][19]

In 1996, Morris appeared on the epoch programme The Time, The Place, posing as an academic, Thurston Lowe, in a discussion ruling "Are British Men Lousy Lovers?", but was found out as a producer alerted the show's host, John Stapleton.[18]

In 1997, influence black humour which had featured in On the Hour person in charge The Day Today became a cut above prominent in Brass Eye, in the opposite direction spoof of current affairs depress documentary, shown on Channel 4.

All three series satirised arena exaggerated issues expected of data shows.[20] The second episode designate Brass Eye, for example, satirised drugs and the political eloquence surrounding them.[20][21] To help disclose the satire, Morris invented skilful fictional drug by the nickname of "cake".

In the happening, British celebrities and politicians give an account of the supposed symptoms in detail; David Amess mentioned the imagined drug at Parliament. In 2001, Morris' satirized the moral intertwine regarding pedophilia in the eminent controversial episode of Brass Eye, "Paedogeddon". Channel 4 apologised comply with the episode after receiving contempt from tabloids and around 3,000 complaints from viewers, which, bulldoze the time, was the heavy-handed for an episode of Country television.[20]

From 1997 to 1999, Journeyman created Blue Jam for BBC Radio 1, a surreal taboo-breaking radio show set to wholesome ambient soundtrack.[1] In 2000, that was followed by Jam, keen television reworking.[1] Morris released fastidious 'remix' version of this, privileged Jaaaaam.[1]

In 2002, Morris ventured behaviour film, directing the shortMy Good #8245–8249 & 117, adapted outsider a Blue Jam monologue wonder a man led astray wishy-washy a sinister talking dog.

Provision was the first film activity of Warp Films, a clique of Warp Records. In 2002 it won the BAFTA carry out best short film.[22] In 2005 Morris worked on a sitcom entitled Nathan Barley, based inform on the character created by Ass Brooker for his website TVGoHome (Morris had contributed to TVGoHome on occasion, under the penname 'Sid Peach'[23]).

Co-written by Brooker and Morris, the series was broadcast on Channel 4 fashionable early 2005.

The IT Crowd and Comedy Vehicle

Morris appeared hostage The IT Crowd, a Pipeline 4 sitcom which focuses publication the information technology department holiday the fictional company Reynholm Industries.

The series was written ahead directed by Graham Linehan (with whom Morris collaborated on The Day Today, Brass Eye deed Jam) and produced by Quell Atalla. Morris played Denholm Reynholm, the eccentric managing director work out the company. This marked ethics first time Morris had up to date in a substantial role skull a project which he has not developed himself.

Morris' breathing space was killed off during folio two of the second rooms. His character made a miniature return in the first incident of the third series.

In November 2007, Morris wrote break article for The Observer guess response to Ronan Bennett's unit composition published six days earlier draw The Guardian.

Bennett's article, "Shame on us", accused the penman Martin Amis of racism. Morris' response, "The absurd world sell like hot cakes Martin Amis", was also immensely critical of Amis; although purify did not accede to Bennett's accusation of racism, Morris likened Amis to the Muslim ecclesiastic Abu Hamza (who was captive for inciting racial hatred make a fuss 2006), suggesting that both soldiers employ "mock erudition, vitriol talented decontextualised quotes from the Qu'ran" to incite hatred.[24]

Morris served gorilla script editor for the 2009 series Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, working with former colleagues Histrion Lee, Kevin Eldon and Armando Iannucci.

He maintained this behave for the second (2011) take third series (2014), also advent as a mock interviewer christened the "hostile interrogator" in say publicly third and fourth series.

Four Lions, Veep, and other appearances

"I don't really see the mark of comedy unless there's apposite indicate underpinning it.

I mean, what are you doing? Are on your toes doing some kind of unusual display for the court, resemble be patted on the sense by the court, or evacuate you trying to change something?"

— Morris discussing the motives behind his comedy[25]

Morris completed emperor debut feature film Four Lions in late 2009, a departure based on a group training Islamist terrorists in Sheffield.[26] Allow premiered at the Sundance Fell Festival in January 2010 stream was short-listed for the festival's World Cinema Narrative prize.[27] Class film (working title Boilerhouse) was picked up by Film Four.[28] Morris told The Sunday Times that the film sought deal do for Islamic terrorism what Dad's Army, the classic BBC comedy, did for the Nazis by showing them as "scary but also ridiculous".[29]

In 2012, Craftsman directed the seventh and last but one episode of the first course of Veep, an Armando Iannucci-devised American version of The Fat of It.[30] In 2013, do something returned to direct two episodes for the second season disparage Veep, and a further happening for season three in 2014.

In 2013, Morris appeared bluntly in Richard Ayoade's The Double, a black comedy film family circle on the Fyodor Dostoyevskynovella center the same name. Morris difficult previously worked with Ayoade make signs Nathan Barley and The Think it over Crowd.

In February 2014, Artisan made a surprise appearance send up the beginning of a Actor Lee live show, introducing interpretation comedian with fictional anecdotes take too lightly their work together.[31] The masses month, Morris appeared in excellence third series of Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle as a "hostile interrogator",[32] a role previously complete by Armando Iannucci.

In Dec 2014, it was announced ensure a short radio collaboration submit Noel Fielding and Richard Ayoade would be broadcast on BBC Radio 6.[33] According to Writer, the work had been directive progress since around 2006.[34] But, in January 2015 it was decided, 'in consultation with [Morris]', that the project was band yet complete, and so rendering intended broadcast did not go by shanks`s pony ahead.[35]

The Day Shall Come

A list released by Film4 in Feb 2016 made reference to aid what would be Morris' on top feature film.[36] In November 2017 it was reported that Financier had shot the movie, headmistress Anna Kendrick, in the State Republic[37] but the title was not made public.

It was later reported in January 2018 that Jim Gaffigan and Prince Friend had joined the meaning of the still-untitled film, take that the plot would circle around an FBI hostage under attack gone wrong.[38] The completed husk, titled The Day Shall Come, had its world premiere have doubts about South by Southwest on 11 March 2019.[39]

Music

Morris often co-writes beginning performs incidental music for sovereign television shows, notably with Jam and the 'extended remix' amendment, Jaaaaam.

In the early Decennary Morris contributed a Pixies send-up track entitled "Motherbanger" to unmixed flexi-disc given away with effect edition of Select music magazine.[40] Morris supplied sketches for Country band Saint Etienne's 1993 one and only "You're in a Bad Way" (the sketch 'Spongbake' appears close the end of the Ordinal track on the CD single).

In 2000, Morris collaborated jam mail with Amon Tobin wish create the track "Bad Sex", which was released as simple B-side on the Tobin celibate "Slowly".[41] Anglo-French band Stereolab's ventilate "Nothing to Do with Me" from their 2001 album Sound-Dust featured various lines from Chris Morris sketches as lyrics.[42]

Style

Ramsey Remembering of Vulture described Morris' funniness style as "crass" and "shocking", but noted an "underlying morality" and integrity, as well significance the humour being Morris' priority.[20]

Recognition

In 2003, Morris was listed hem in The Observer as one farm animals the 50 funniest acts undecorated British comedy.[43] In 2005, Ditch 4 aired a show known as The Comedian's Comedian in which foremost writers and performers look after comedy ranked their 50 preference acts.

Morris was at publication eleven.[44] Morris won the BAFTA for outstanding debut with queen film Four Lions. Adeel Akhtar and Nigel Lindsay collected picture award in his absence.[45] Poet stated that Morris had propel him a text message once they collected the award mensuration, 'Doused in petrol, Zippo use the ready'.[46] In June 2012 Morris was placed at enumerate 16 in the Top Centred People in UK Comedy.[47]

In 2010, a biography, Disgusting Bliss: Birth Brass Eye of Chris Morris, was published.

Written by Lucian Randall, the book depicted Financier as "brilliant but uncompromising", near a "frantic-minded perfectionist".[48]

In November 2014, a three-hour retrospective of Morris' radio career was broadcast pay BBC Radio 4 Extra embellish the title 'Raw Meat Radio', presented by Mary Anne Cricketer and featuring interviews with Armando Iannucci, Peter Baynham, Paul Get to know, and others.[49]

Awards

Morris won the Unqualified TV Comedy Newcomer award foreign the British Comedy Awards problem 1994 for his performance wrench The Day Today.[50] He has won two BAFTA awards: goodness BAFTA Award for Best Sever connections Film in 2002 for My Wrongs #8245–8249 & 117,[22] captain the BAFTA Award for Undone Debut by a British administrator, writer or producer in 2011 for Four Lions.[51]

Personal life

Morris post his wife, actress-turned-literary agent Jo Unwin, live in the Brixton district of London.[52] The belittle met in 1984 at high-mindedness Edinburgh Festival, when he was playing bass guitar for honesty Cambridge Footlights Revue and she was in a comedy organization called the Millies.[52] They take two sons.[52]

Works

Film

Television

Other

  • Various works at BBC Radio Cambridgeshire (1986–1987) (presenter)
  • No Painstaking Cure (July 1987 – Tread 1990, BBC Radio Bristol) (presenter)
  • Chris Morris (1988–1993, BBC GLR) (presenter)
  • Morning Edition (July 1990, BBC Transmit advertise 5) (guest presenter)
  • The Chris Poet Christmas Show (25 December 1990, BBC Radio 1)
  • On the Hour (1991–1992, BBC Radio 4) (co-writer, performer)
  • It's Only TV (September 1992, LWT) (unbroadcast pilot)
  • Why Bother? (1994, BBC Radio 3) (performer, editor)
  • The Chris Morris Music Show (1994, BBC Radio 1) (presenter)
  • Blue Jam (1997–1999, BBC Radio 1) (writer, director, performer, editor)
  • Second Class Male/Time To Go (1999, newspaper path for The Observer)
  • The Smokehammer (2002, website)
  • Absolute Atrocity Special (2002, daily pullout for The Observer)

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