Chris
Neill
"AN
EXPERT STORYTELLER WITH SPLIT-SECOND COMIC TIMING" Independent on Sunday
Chris
Neill is a perennial hit at the Edinburgh Fringe with shows such as
The BBC,
Andrew Gilligan, And Me and Middle Class Misery - The Board Game. His acidic quick
wit is also amply demonstrated on BBC radio shows such as Just A Minute. From
2005 he began to make a name for himself on the comedy circuit in shows such as
the legendary Robin Ince's Book Club.
n
Weekly slot on MacAulay & Co for BBC Radio Scotland
n Appearances on 5
'Just A Minute' audiobook cds, BBC Worldwide
n Critic 'Serious About Comedy'
BBC7
n Co-presenter 'MacAulay and Co' during Edinburgh Festival, BBC Radio
Scotland 2005
n Guest on 'The Fred MacAulay Show' BBC Radio Scotland 2004
n
Writer and presenter 'The Husky Betty Marsden' for BBC Radio 4
n Regular panellist
on 'Just A Minute' for BBC Radio 4 (2001 - 2006)
n Starring role in 'Linda
Smith's Brief History Of Time-Wasting' (series 1 and 2) for BBC Radio 4
n Regular
appearances on a wide variety of radio panel games, quiz shows, sitcoms and sketch
shows including 'Quote…Unquote', 'Whispers', 'The Best Policy', 'Audio Diaries',
'The Motion Show' and 'The Fruit Machine'
· Regular core performer in
'The Book Club', London and Edinburgh
· Wrote and performed one-man
show 'Middle Class Misery - The Board Game' at pleasance, Edinburgh Fringe 2005
· National tour of 'The BBC, Andrew Gilligan And Me'
· Compere
of Etcetera Theatre's 2004 Christmas Shows
n Wrote and performed one-man show
'The BBC, Andrew Gilligan And Me' at Pleasance, Edinburgh Fringe 2004
n Guest
on 'Nicholas Parson's Happy Hour' Edinburgh Fringe 2002- 2005
n Wrote and performed
one-man show 'Does It With Strangers' at the Pleasance, Edinburgh Fringe 2002
n Guest on 'Lenny Beige's Pick Of The Fringe' Edinburgh Fringe 2002
"NAUGHTY
BUT NICE AND DISPLAYING A MASTERY OF TANGENTIAL STORYTELLING, CHRIS NEILL IS A
CROSS BETWEEN FRANKIE HOWERD AND RONNIE CORBETT." """"
The List
"A POLISHED RACONTEUR … NEILL'S SCHTICK IS PUNCTUATED
WITH CLASSIC LINES." Metro
"INCREDIBLY
ENGAGING … A COURTYARD STORMER." Three Weeks
"NEILL
IS THE EPITOME OF INTELLIGENT MIDDLE-CLASS CAMP. CLOSE YOUR EYES AND YOU GET JULIAN
CLARYCROSSED WITH KENNETH WILLIAMS. OPEN THEM AND YOU HAVE SERGEANT BILKO."
The Scotsman
"NEILL
PRESIDES OVER PROCEEDINGS WITH THE GRACIOUS SELF-ASSURANCE OF A PARTY HOST HAVING
A CHINWAG WITH HIS GUESTS. BOTH ACIDIC AND DISARMINGLY SWEET, HE HAS AN IMMACULATE
TURN OF PHRASE" Independent
"RACONTEUR,
WIT AND GENERAL OLD COW." Attitude Magazine
"THIS
ACIDIC STORYTELLER IS THE NATURAL SUCCESSOR TO KENNETH WILLIAMS." Evening
Standard
