Chris Neill (born 1968) is a British comedian, producer, and writer who features regularly on
BBC Radio 4
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Chris Neill, Four Poofs and a Piano, Pleasance Gary Le Strange, Will Smith, Pod Deco Jeff Green, Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh.
The Independent, 8 August 2004. Retrieved 29 June 2011. and BBC Radio Scotland
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. Performing also as a stand-up comedian on the UK circuit, he has presented five solo shows on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe since 2002.
Early career
Chris Neill began his career producing comedy and entertainment shows for BBC Radio between 1993 and 2000. Since then, he has continued to make shows for BBC radio networks as a freelancer. His productions include '' The Hudson and Pepperdine Show'', '' Just A Minute'', '' The News Huddlines'', '' Week Ending'', ''Lee and Herring'', ''Rainer Hersch
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's 20th Century Retrospective'', ''Kit and the Widow - Sanitised for the Wireless'', ''It's That Jo Caulfield Again'', '' Quote... Unquote'', ''Miranda Hart's House Party'', ''Cambridge Footlights: A Retrospective'', ''... by Woody Allen'', ''Clement Doesn't Live Here Anymore
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The theme tune for the show is " There's A Ghost In My House" by R. Dean Taylor.
Summary
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'', ''Why the Big Pause?'' ''Talk of New York'', and ''Sean Lock
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's 15 Storeys High''.
Comedy roles and performances
In 2000, Neill became a panelist on shows such as '' Just a Minute'', ''The Motion Show'', and '' Quote... Unquote''. In '' Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting'', written by and featuring the comedian
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, he had a regular role as Chris, the live-in builder with a fear of completing any job. He also had cameo roles in Sean Lock's ''15 Storeys High'' and '' The Hudson and Pepperdine Show'', as well as writing and presenting a Radio 4 documentary about the legendary ''Round the Horne'' star, Betty Marsden. He has regularly contributed to the Sunday-morning news magazine programme, ''Broadcasting House
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'', as well as presenting a weekly feature on ''MacAulay & Co'' on BBC Radio Scotland. In 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2009, he co-hosted elements of ''MacAulay & Co'' along with Fred MacAulay and Sue Perkins
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as it was broadcast from the Spiegel Tent every morning during two weeks of the Edinburgh Festival.
Neill made his début as a stand-up comedian at the Edinburgh Fringe
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (also referred to as The Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe, or Edinburgh Fringe Festival) is the world's largest arts and media festival, which in 2019 spanned 25 days and featured more than 59,600 performances of 3,841 dif ...
in 2002 with his show ''Does it With Strangers'' at the Pleasance, and he returned to the Edinburgh Fringe in 2004 with ''The BBC, Andrew Gilligan, and Me'' and in 2005 with ''Middle Class Misery — the Board Game'', both also at the Pleasance, in 2006 with his show ''Everybody Hates Chris (Neill)'' at the Underbelly and in 2008 with ''Chris Neill's Got a Bun in the Oven'' at the Assembly Rooms. He was a core performer in Robin Ince
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Education
After attending York Hous ...
's Book Club, both in London and on national tour, and has also worked as a television warm-up artist.
Other roles
Neill also performs as a radio actor and as a voice-over artist. In 2006, he played Sir James Tyrrell in the '' Doctor Who'' audio drama '' The Kingmaker''. He has recorded the voice of Lord Cutler Beckett for the Disney video game, '' Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned'' and voiced the part of Owl in all 52 episodes of the animation ''Poppy Cat
Poppy Cat is a series of books created by British illustrator and writer Lara Jones. The books are published by Campbell Books (a division of Macmillan Publishers), and include ''Poppy Cat's Play House'', ''Poppy Cat's Christmas'', ''Poppy Cat ...
'' for Nick Jr
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. He has also lent his voice to the English dub of a French animated series called ''Lilybuds
''Lilybuds'' is a computer-animated children's television series produced by Zodiak Family. The series has been made for Discovery Kids in Latin America. The CGI animated series is produced by ZKS France for Discovery Kids Latin America, with th ...
'' made for Zodiak Kids
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voicing Zinnia's jerboa Spearmint.
References
External links
Chris Neill's Dirty Kitchen (A food blog)
Chris Neill Official Website
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1968 births
Living people
British male comedians