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Eric Lampaert

“Delightfully Weird”– TIME OUT

Eric Lampaert finally grew tired of the stagnant confines of his mother’s womb on the 4th October 1986. He wanted out of that amniotic hell and began using his umbilical cord as a set of primitive reigns to direct her hapless body. Catastrophically, even at that age Eric exhibited a shockingly limited attention span and, on seeing a blood vessel that resembled Tom Jones, became distracted, causing his mother to deposit his gangly form in the tiny French town of Hirson.

 Due to his father’s penchant for kicking horses for money, they soon left the bucolic bliss of rural France and moved to Belgium (where there is little else to do and Jockeys are given thrones and blowjobs). Here, amidst acute linguistic confusion Eric uttered his first words – they were Dutch. Within a few months he had developed a near-fetishistic love of wooden footwear and to this day enjoys nothing better than watching hardcore pornography whilst dressed as a windmill.

 “His persona is a mix between Max Wall and Eddie Izzard… He can take you on flights of fancy and back again in one wonderful swoop” GRAVITY MAGAZINE

 For the next twelve years, Eric pursued a kind of nomadic existence, living wherever there was a demand to watch horses running around. This took him to Germany, Italy, South Africa and Dubai. Meandering like a deranged Michael Palin meant he lost the Dutch and instead, became fluent in French and loneliness. Never having time to settle down and make friends - even the imaginary ones chose to shun him - he was forced to begin a grubby affair with his own brain.

 Eric soon found himself clawing at the white cliffs of Dover, desperate to taste the playful, sweet breezes of England. Alas, he wound up in Newmarket, and consequently was greeted by air, which by law undergoes a triple equine bum-filtering. Also he was rendered heavily pregnant by the age of thirteen. Compounding this he was expected to learn English, and for reasons he still doesn’t understand, use it to do a bunch of other subjects (something about getting a proper job…he wasn’t really listening). Eric set about this task by funneling unhealthy quantities of crap TV directly into his cranium. Unctuous dollops of Eastenders would dissolve in the tepid sunshine of Neighbours, causing him to nurture a worryingly dichotomous personality, the likes of which would be better suited to night-stalking the cobbled smog of Victorian London.

 “Eric Lampaert is a relatively new act but no doubt a star of the future. Like a younger Noel Fielding, he is refreshingly bonkers and totally spontaneous. Definitely one to watch” GROVE MAGAZINE

 Throughout this, Eric maintained an intense hatred for lazy clichés, but that didn’t stop him becoming the class clown. This brought massively undeserved social and bedroom-based success – something he was eternally grateful for, given that he was increasingly coming to resemble the lovechild of Vernon Kay and a hairy lamppost. Eventually, recognizing that making a tit of himself was to be his only source of attention in life, Eric decided that the stage must be his destination. And you can now find Eric’s play-dough face and weird grasshopper legs making people point and laugh all over the UK’s comedy circuit.

Gigs/Venues Played:
 The Comedy Store (Leicester Square), Amused Moose (Venue C Edinburgh, Soho Theatre/Leicester Square/Covent Garden, London,) Committed 09: Fairfield Hall (Croydon) Spank (London & Edinburgh) Late Show and Cow Cafe (Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe Festival) The 99 Club (Leicester Square, London) Guildhall Theatre (Gloucester) The Ambassador’s Comedy Reception (The Albany, London) Rawhide (Liverpool) Downstairs at the King’s head (Hornsey, London) Just the Tonic (Nottingham) Headliners (Chiswick, London) De Montfort University, Swansea University, Aberystwyth University, Middlesex University, Anglia Ruskin University (UK Universities) Laughing Horse (Wimbledon/Piccadily Circus/Oxford Circus/Richmond/Camden, London & City FC, Edinburgh) Upstairs at the Masons (Mayfair, London) Chortle Student Competition (Below 22 & University College London, London), Monkey Business (Kentish Town, London),  Falling Down With Laughter (Borough, London), Laugh and a Half (Kentish Town, London) Comedy Benefit for ‘Cry in the Dark charity (Brick Lane, London), Stand Up and Coming (Tufnell Park & Shepherd’s Bush, London) Clinic Comedy (Hammersmith, London), Comedy Festival (Westminster, London), Comedy Stop Drop (Balham, London) Peeled Over (Harringay, London) Dirty Love (King’s Cross & Shoreditch) Party Piece (Hackney, London) The Bugger's Grip (Streatham, London) Wind Down Wind Up (Battersea, London) The Blag (Ladbroke Grove, London) Maddog (Edinburgh Fringe Festival) Escapades (Northampton) Gag Factory (Guildford, Surrey) Laugh it up (Hastings, Sussex) Electric Mouse (Kensal Green, London) Lion's Den (King's Cross, London), King of the Ring (Oakwood, London)

 Competitions:

·   Laughing Horse’s Big Big Big Comedy Competition 08 – Winner

·   Amused Moose Laugh Off 08 Final

·   Chortle Student Competition 08 & 09

·   English Comedian of the year 09

 Festivals:

·   Bestival 08 (Isle of Wight)

·   Edinburgh Fringe Festival 08

·   Camden Crawl 09

 Theatre:

 TV/Radio:

The Antidote – Pilot for Brown Eyed Boy

Splendid – Pilot for Earl’s Tree studios

T-Mobile advert 09

BBC Radio One advert 09

Virgin Atlantic advert 09

Talk to Frank advert 08

Waking the Dead background 08

Holby City background 08

Rise of the Footsoldier background 07

 Presenter: Middlesex University Radio