Simon Evans
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Simon Evans is an English
comedian, born in Luton
and currently living in Hove
.
in St Albans and then studied law at Southampton University, graduating in 1986.
circuit with a growing TV profile - most recently on Mock the Week (Oct 2011). His style has been characterised as aloof, sardonic and sharp-witted, and following a well-received return to the Edinburgh Festival in 2010 according to leading comedy review site Chortle 'his sharp, acidic barbs remain a rich delight'. TV appearances in 2010 include the Michael McIntyre Roadshow in Sunderland (BBC One) and Edinburgh Comedy Fest Live (BBC Three). He is currently touring his hour-long Edinburgh show 'Fringe Magnet' across the UK.
In early 2010 Simon Evans supported Lee Mack
on his most recent UK tour - Going Out. He has performed one man shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe since 2000 and has performed at the New Zealand
Comedy Festival 2002, Cape Town
Comedy Festival 2001 as well as in Hong Kong
, Singapore
, Shanghai
, Beijing
, Winnipeg
and Dubai
. In July 2004 he performed at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal, and the following spring at the Aspen Comedy Festival in Colorado. In July 2010 he appeared alongside Emo Philips
at Latitude Festival
in Suffolk
.
in which he was disqualified in the "Super Round" for failing to complete the computer challenge correctly.
- hosting and writing seven series of the spoof news show The Way It Is
(as Richard Richard), as well as appearing on numerous panel games including the News Quiz, Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive and the Unbelievable Truth, and discussion programmes such as Off The Page.
He is a regular contributor to both Radio 4 and London Live and has had full-length comedy scripts commissioned by the BBC for both TV and radio.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
comedian, born in Luton
Luton
Luton is a large town and unitary authority of Bedfordshire, England, 30 miles north of London. Luton and its near neighbours, Dunstable and Houghton Regis, form the Luton/Dunstable Urban Area with a population of about 250,000....
and currently living in Hove
Hove
Hove is a town on the south coast of England, immediately to the west of its larger neighbour Brighton, with which it forms the unitary authority Brighton and Hove. It forms a single conurbation together with Brighton and some smaller towns and villages running along the coast...
.
Early life
Simon Evans attended Verulam SchoolVerulam School
Verulam School is a state secondary school for boys in St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK. It was founded in 1938 and was originally named St Albans Boys' Modern School. The name was changed in the 1940s to St Albans Grammar School for Boys and subsequently, following its change of status to a...
in St Albans and then studied law at Southampton University, graduating in 1986.
Stand-up comedy
Evans is an established act on the UK stand-up comedyStand-up comedy
Stand-up comedy is a comedic art form. Usually, a comedian performs in front of a live audience, speaking directly to them. Their performances are sometimes filmed for later release via DVD, the internet, and television...
circuit with a growing TV profile - most recently on Mock the Week (Oct 2011). His style has been characterised as aloof, sardonic and sharp-witted, and following a well-received return to the Edinburgh Festival in 2010 according to leading comedy review site Chortle 'his sharp, acidic barbs remain a rich delight'. TV appearances in 2010 include the Michael McIntyre Roadshow in Sunderland (BBC One) and Edinburgh Comedy Fest Live (BBC Three). He is currently touring his hour-long Edinburgh show 'Fringe Magnet' across the UK.
In early 2010 Simon Evans supported Lee Mack
Lee Mack
Lee Gordon McKillop is an English stand-up comedian and actor, known by the stage name Lee Mack. He is well known in the United Kingdom for writing and starring in the sitcom Not Going Out, for being a team captain on Would I Lie to You? and for hosting Lee Mack's All Star Cast.-Personal life:Mack...
on his most recent UK tour - Going Out. He has performed one man shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe since 2000 and has performed at the New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
Comedy Festival 2002, Cape Town
Cape Town
Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...
Comedy Festival 2001 as well as in Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
, Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
, Shanghai
Shanghai
Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...
, Beijing
Beijing
Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...
, Winnipeg
Winnipeg
Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...
and Dubai
Dubai
Dubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates . The emirate is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi...
. In July 2004 he performed at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal, and the following spring at the Aspen Comedy Festival in Colorado. In July 2010 he appeared alongside Emo Philips
Emo Philips
Emo Philips is an American entertainer and comedian born in the Chicago suburb of Downers Grove. Much of his standup comedy stems from the use of paraprosdokians and garden path sentences spoken in a wandering falsetto tone of voice and a confused, childlike delivery of his material to produce the...
at Latitude Festival
Latitude Festival
The Latitude Festival is an annual music festival that takes place in Henham Park, Southwold, Suffolk, England. It was first held in July 2006....
in Suffolk
Suffolk
Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...
.
Television writing
Evans has written for TV shows including:- The Big BreakfastThe Big BreakfastThe Big Breakfast was a British light entertainment television show shown on Channel 4 and S4C each weekday morning from 28 September 1992 until 29 March 2002 during which period 2,482 shows were produced. The Big Breakfast was produced by Planet 24, the production company co-owned by former...
- Lily Savage
- Johnny Vaughan Tonight
- The State We're InThe State We're InFor the radio programme see The State We're In The State We're In is rock band The Dogs D'Amour's debut studio album, released in 1984. The album was produced in Finland and released on Finnish label Kumibeat Records...
- TV Heaven, Telly HellTV Heaven, Telly HellTV Heaven, Telly Hell is a comedy television show on Channel 4, presented and produced by Sean Lock. The format is similar to Room 101, with guests discussing their likes and dislikes of items on television....
- The Late Edition
- They Think It's All OverThey Think It's All Over (TV series)They Think It's All Over was a British comedy panel game with a sporting theme produced by Talkback Thames and shown on BBC One. The show's name is taken from Kenneth Wolstenholme's famous 1966 World Cup commentary quotation, "they think it's all over...it is now!" and the show used the phrase as...
- Revolver
- Eight out of Ten Cats8 Out of 10 Cats8 out of 10 Cats is a television comedy panel game made by Zeppotron for Channel 4. It was first broadcast on 3 June 2005. The show is based on statistics and opinion polls, and draws on polls produced by a variety of organizations and new polls commissioned for the programme, carried out by...
- Turn Back Time
- Not Going OutNot Going OutNot Going Out is a British television sitcom that has aired on BBC One since 2006. Starring Lee Mack, Tim Vine, Sally Bretton, Miranda Hart and Katy Wix, it was initially written by Mack, Andrew Collins, Paul Kerensa, Simon Evans and Peter Tilbury, but now features contributions from other...
Television appearances
He has appeared on the Comedy Store (Five) and The Stand Up Show (BBC1). Simon's other television appearances include the Comedy Network, Five's Company (Five) and an appearance on The Krypton FactorThe Krypton Factor
The Krypton Factor was a British game show produced by Granada Television for broadcast on ITV. The show originally ran from 7 September 1977 to 20 November 1995, and was hosted by Gordon Burns and usually broadcast on the ITV network on Mondays at 19:00....
in which he was disqualified in the "Super Round" for failing to complete the computer challenge correctly.
- Brain CandyBrain CandyBrain Candy is a feature film by The Kids in the Hall, a Canadian comedy troupe. Directed by Kelly Makin, filmed in Toronto, and released in 1996, it followed the five season run of their television series, which had been successful in both Canada and the United States.The five man team plays all...
(BBC Choice) (2002) - The Way It IsThe Way It Is (programme)The Way It Is is a topical news spoof show which ran for five series, each of eight shows, on BBC Radio 4 between 1998 and 2001. A one-off TV version was broadcast on BBC One in 2000...
(BBC1) (2000) - Edinburgh Nights (BBC2)
- The Comedy Store (Five)
- The Stand Up Show (BBC1)
- Gas (Channel 4)
- Life's a Pitch (BBC1) (2000)
- The Comedy NetworkThe Comedy NetworkThe Comedy Network a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel owned by Bell Media specializing in comedy programming.The channel operates two time shifted feeds, East and West ....
(Five) - Five's Company (Five)
- Take a Girl Like YouTake a Girl Like You (TV series)Take a Girl Like You is a 2000 British television comedy series adapted by Andrew Davies from the 1960 novel Take a Girl Like You by Kingsley Amis. It starred Sienna Guillory, Rupert Graves, Hugh Bonneville, Robert Daws, Leslie Phillips, Emma Chambers, Ian Driver and Deborah Cornelius. It was...
(2000) - Rich Hall's Cattle DriveRich Hall's Cattle DriveRich Hall's Cattle Drive is a television sitcom starring Rich Hall and Mike Wilmot. It was broadcast in 2006 in the United Kingdom on BBC Four, and ran for one series consisting of six episodes...
(2006) as Melvin Turpin - Michael McIntyre's Comedy RoadshowMichael McIntyre's Comedy RoadshowMichael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow is a British stand-up comedy television series hosted by comedian Michael McIntyre from different venues around the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. The first series was broadcast with six episodes in 2009. Each episode features a routine from McIntyre,...
(BBC1) (2010) - Dave's One Night StandDave's One Night Stand-External links:* at Dave's official website...
(Dave) (2011) - Mock The WeekMock the WeekMock the Week is a British topical celebrity panel game hosted by Dara Ó Briain that launched in 2005. The game is influenced by improvised topical stand-up comedy, with several rounds requiring players to deliver answers on unexpected subjects on the spur of the moment.It is made by independent...
(BBC2) (2011)
Radio
Evans appears regularly on BBC Radio 4BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
- hosting and writing seven series of the spoof news show The Way It Is
The Way It Is (programme)
The Way It Is is a topical news spoof show which ran for five series, each of eight shows, on BBC Radio 4 between 1998 and 2001. A one-off TV version was broadcast on BBC One in 2000...
(as Richard Richard), as well as appearing on numerous panel games including the News Quiz, Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive and the Unbelievable Truth, and discussion programmes such as Off The Page.
He is a regular contributor to both Radio 4 and London Live and has had full-length comedy scripts commissioned by the BBC for both TV and radio.
- The Way It IsThe Way It Is (programme)The Way It Is is a topical news spoof show which ran for five series, each of eight shows, on BBC Radio 4 between 1998 and 2001. A one-off TV version was broadcast on BBC One in 2000...
(Radio 4) - Writer and performer - Best Policy (Radio 4) - Anchored
- True Lies, A world without... and others (Radio 4) - Pundit/panellist
- Beating the System (Radio 4) – Sole writer and performer
- Troublestarter (Radio 4) - Three part series - Sole writer and performer
- The Mighty BooshThe Mighty BooshThe Mighty Boosh is a British comedy troupe featuring comedians Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding. Developed from three stage shows and a six episode radio series, it has since spawned a total of twenty television episodes for BBC Three and two live tours of the UK, as well as two live shows in the...
(Radio 4) - Performer - The News QuizThe News QuizThe News Quiz is a topical panel game broadcast on British radio BBC Radio 4.-History:It was first broadcast in 1977 with Barry Norman as chairman. Subsequently it was chaired by Simon Hoggart, Barry Took , and then again by Simon Hoggart until March 2006. Hoggart was replaced by Sandi Toksvig in...
(Radio 4) - Performer - The Big Booth (Radio 4) - Performer