Marcus Brigstocke

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Marcus Brigstocke (born May 1973) is an English comedian and satirist who has worked extensively in stand-up comedy, television and radio. He is particularly associated with the 6.30pm comedy slot on BBC Radio 4, having frequently appeared on several of its shows concurrently.

Many of the central themes of Brigstocke's work (essentially the hypocrisy of the affluent) were first addressed during his time as a student at the University of Bristol. While at Bristol he often performed in the comedy trio "Club Seals", which later made the transition to TV in the series of short programs We Are History. Very few of the conventions and institutions of the bourgeoisie have escaped his ire, be it the middle-class obsession with heritage (The Museum of Everything), the turpitude of contemporary business culture (Think the Unthinkable), or English provincial parochialism (Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off). However, Brigstocke's favourite joke is to do an impersonation of Tim Westwood, which always contains a reference to Westwood's name just in case you didn't get it from the impersonation.

With a successful radio career including The Now Show with Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis, he retains a cult following. The Now Show also provides an outlet for his fierce dislike of David Blaine, referring to Blaine himself as "Git-wizard", and his "Above The Below" stunt as Freakdangle. He is increasingly enjoying mainstream success, recently having appeared on such broadly popular TV shows such as Have I Got News for You and Jack Dee's Live at the Apollo series.

One of his best-known jokes is "Computer games can't affect kids that much. I mean, if Pacman had affected us as kids we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music." This is also a good example of the sort of one-liners Brigstocke usually comes up with, though it is also often attributed to a Nintendo employee.

On 9 April 2006, Brigstocke appeared in the BBC Radio 4's Classic Serial adaptation of The Code of the Woosters as Bertie Wooster with Andrew Sachs as Jeeves.

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Brigstocke is dyslexic, and has admitted that he has to take extra preparation when using an autocue. ^{[[Citing sources citation needed]]}

Selected radio

Selected television

External links

An extensive biography and photograph can be found at [his official website]

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