Mark Silcox is a comedian and actor who has been performing since 2008. He is most known for being a

stand-up Stand-up comedy is a performance directed to a live audience, where the performer stands on a stage (theatre), stage and delivers humour, humorous and satire, satirical monologues sometimes incorporating physical comedy, physical acts. These ...

, making it to the finals of the BBC New Comedy Award in 2013 and being one of several Asian comedians to be featured on

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's ''The Big Asian Stand-Up'', as well as for his starring role as

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's assistant on the

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consumer rights comedy show '' Joe Lycett's Got Your Back'' and for playing Mohammed Shah "Shady" Shaheed in

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's ''

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''.

Early life

Silcox grew up in

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, where he received a

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chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules a ...

and worked as a lecturer. He is from

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and was living near

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in the 1980s. Silcox moved to UK in 1990, and completed a

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Career

A part-time

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, Silcox is known for his

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style of anti-humour. He originally began performing in 2008 after attending a

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course from City Lit. After 50 gigs, he moved to

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to focus on a career in

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, returning to the UK to start gigging again in 2012. Silcox was a BBC New Comedy Award finalist in 2013. He has performed a show at the

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every year since 2014. In 2018, Silcox starred in three episodes of the YouTube mini-series, 'Silcox Investigates', where he played a private investigator. In 2019, he was featured as

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in Jay Foreman and Paul Kendler's ''Unfinished London'' YouTube series. In 2019, Silcox began appearing as

’s sidekick on

's '' Joe Lycett's Got Your Back'', with a clip of him challenging

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on their motto "Have it your way" going viral and prompting a response from Burger King themselves. In 2020, Silcox played the role of Raj in “The Telethon”, a bonus level of the

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'' Not For Broadcast''. In 2023, Silcox featured in a minor supporting role in the music video "Eggerson Keaveney" by YouTuber Jazz Emu.

Television credits

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Silcox, Mark Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century British comedians British male comedians Place of birth missing (living people) Nationality missing Alumni of Imperial College London British stand-up comedians 21st-century British male actors British male television actors Indian emigrants to the United Kingdom