Phill Jupitus

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Phill Jupitus (born March 6, 1962 in Newport, Isle of Wight) is an English comedian. He is a regular on television and radio panel shows, including BBC Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue and BBC Two/BBC Four's Qi, and is a team captain on BBC TWO's Never Mind The Buzzcocks. He was also a team captain on the BBC's television comedy panel show It's Only TV But I Like It in 1999.

Jupitus is also a disc jockey, both on the radio and at clubs and festivals, a fan of alternative music styles. He presents the weekday breakfast show on digital radio station BBC 6 Music. In recent years he has presented some of the BBC's television coverage of music events, such as the Glastonbury Festival. Prior to his current broadcasting career, he was a performance poet and cartoonist under the stage-name 'Porky the Poet'.

Jupitus' career began as a performance poet in the mid-1980s, and he toured as a warm-up act for Billy Bragg. He turned to stand-up comedy and worked in the offices of Bragg's record company while learning the trade.

Trivia

He is a devout fan of the Boston Red Sox, often wearing Red Sox apparel during television appearances.
He also supports West Ham United but has revealed that he also follows Southend United.
His left ear is pierced.
He lives in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. Indeed, he has spent his life gradually moving along the A13. He has stated on air that his dying act should be being shot out of a cannon off Shoeburyness, at the eastern end of that road.
He is arachnophobic.
Jupitus once worked as press officer and MC for the band The Housemartins.
In July 2005 he broadcast his BBC 6 Music Breakfast Show live from the home of the Medd family in Nottingham. James Medd is lead guitarist with glam metal band Trippin' Over Wah.
He directed the video for the Billy Bragg song "Sexuality", and wrote a parody version about bestiality.
He is making appearances on the 2006 'Hope Not Hate' tour with Billy Bragg- singing his parody of 'Sexuality': Bestiality.

External links

[BBC 6 Music: Phill Jupitus' breakfast show]

References

BBC Radio 4, 2000. In Conversation With... Phill Jupitus. Series 2, Episode 7, first broadcast 18 May.

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