Biography: Marcus Brigstocke
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PRESS RELEASE
Off the Kerb Productions present
MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE – YOUR TIME IS UP
UK TOUR 2007
SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER 2007
Following a totally sold out run with a live version of his highly successful award winning TV show The Late Edition, at the Edinburgh Festival this year, Marcus Brigstocke the award winning stand up comedian from Television's We Are History, News Knight and Have I Got News For You and BBC Radio 4's The Now Show, is on tour this autumn performing his topical show – Your Time is Up around the country. The tour picks up where last year’s Planet Corduroy, left off and begins in Huddersfield on September the 14th and continues through to Blackheath, London on the 15th December. See below for full tour schedule.
Marcus is the king of satirical comedy. There’s not much that hasn't come under his comedic gaze with blisteringly funny results – Climate Change, Religious Extremism, Immigration, Loans Companies, The Special Relationship, Compensation Culture, Women’s Magazines, The EU and David Blaine, not to mention his own personal battle against his middle class roots. Not surprisingly he has rather a lot to say, hence going on tour again this year.
As well as for the last three years hosting The Late Edition - on BBC 4, Marcus’s TV appearances are numerous, he was in BBC 2’s Excuse My French learning French (alongside Esther Rhantzen and Ron Atkinson) and then performing stand up in French to a discerning Parisien crowd. Other recent TV appearances include Live from the Apollo (with Jack Dee), Have I Got News For You as both panelist and host, Marcus Brigstocke’s Trophy People, and most recently News Knight With Sir Trevor McDonald for ITV.
After several years as the 'angry young man' on the BBC Radio 4's The Now Show, Marcus is regularly heard in the 6.30pm slot on Radio 4. He has written and recorded three series and four specials of Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off, (GWH was also seen on TV at Glastonbury earlier this year in a special programme for BBC4). Marcus has written and performed three series of The Museum Of Everything, and appears on Just a Minute, Newsquiz, and The Today Program.
As well as touring and filming The Late Edition, this autumn – Marcus will be going on a trip to the Arctic with Cape Farewell, which brings artists, scientists and educators together to address and raise awareness about climate change. No Camaron-esque empty gesture this, he will be attempting to sail the 78th parallel between Northern Greenland and the melting Arctic Ice Sheet, which has opened for the first time this year due to Global Warming. Each day he will be writing a newspaper column from the boat and filming a documentary of the trip, which also includes climate scientists, oceanographers, and various artists and writers including Vikram Seth. For more info see www.capefarewell.com
On the 18th and 19th of September Marcus will be recording the DVD of Planet Corduroy, at the Shaw Theatre in London for SONY/BMG, directed by Geoff Posner (Little Britain). To be released in November of this year.
Marcus lives in South London, happily married to his university sweetheart, and is a proud father of two. He is committed to non-violence and is an active campaigner for CND and 'Campaign Against Arms Trade'. He once accidentally had a #11 chart hit. It is worth saying that Marcus also worked (very briefly) as a podium dancer, and also on an oilrig in the North Sea (although not as a dancer). He is fanatical about snowboarding - so much so he will be artistic director of the 2008 Altitude Festival in Meribel - and adores music and movies.
“Dazzling, Inspired, perfectly observed. I’ve yet to see anything funnier” The Daily Telegraph
“Planet Corduroy has to be his most outstanding achievement so far. This is corduroy with cutting edge.” Malcolm Hay, Time Out
“Intelligent, dark, subtle stuff” The Observer
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