Jordan Brookes (born 18 April 1986) is an

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-winning comedian. Brookes was born in

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and grew up in

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. His grandfather was Bill Sellars, a producer and director best known for his work on

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series such as '' All Creatures Great and Small'' and ''

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''. Brookes studied animation at the

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and began stand-up comedy in Cardiff. He won the Welsh Unsigned Comedy Award in 2012. He made his first appearance at the

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in 2015. He was first nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2017 for his show ''Body of Work''. The following year he won the Comedians' Comedian award at the

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Awards. Then in 2019, he won the Main Prize at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards for his show ''I've Got Nothing'' which was described as 'stand-up's answer to

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'. He has spoken of his admiration for stand-up

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, claiming he wanted to be "the existential Michael McIntyre, doing observational stuff but about disillusion, nihilism or sadness".

Edinburgh Festival Fringe shows

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