Lewis Schaffer
| Lewis Schaffer |
|---|
| Born |
| March 30, 1957 |
| Height |
| 5'9" 1.75m |
| Occupation |
| Stand-up comedian |
| Official website |
| www.lewisschaffer.co.uk [1] |
Lewis Schaffer is an American comedian. He is now based in London where he moved in 2000. He currently hosts his own weekly radio show on Resonance FM 104.4FM in London entitled "Voice of Americans with Lewis Schaffer of Nunhead" and has his own stand-up comedy show in London entitled "Lewis Schaffer is Free until Famous."
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[edit] "Free until Famous" in London
Lewis Schaffer performs his show "Free until Famous" twice weekly at the Source Below in Soho, London. His show is the "longest running solo stand-up show in London and perhaps all of Britain", running in excess of 250 performances since its inception in October 2008. [1]
[edit] Edinburgh Fringe Stunt
In 2009, he announced as a publicity stunt that he would be sponsoring the Edinburgh festival comedy awards that had previously been called the if.comedy or Perrier awards.[2] He claimed he had purchased the naming-rights to the awards for "£99 with his mother as a judge". This was reported as fact in various publications[3] and lead to threat of a lawsuit from the award's rights holder[2] and being fired by his theatrical agents.[4]
[edit] Awards
In 2009, he won the Malcolm Hardee Cunning Stunt Award for best publicity stunt at the Edinburgh Fringe[5] and, in 2010, he was nominated for the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality.[6]
[edit] Personal life
Lewis Schaffer was born in Brooklyn, New York, grew up in Great Neck, New York and spent most of his adult life in Manhattan. He moved to London in 2000 and narrowly missed out on being in the first series of Big Brother. He is bitterly divorced with two children (Carnegie and Colombus) and now lives in the Nunhead Heights area of Nunhead, southeast London. Schaffer is currently single and ready to mingle. He aspires to be the next Michael McIntyre.
[edit] Edinburgh Fringe Festival Shows
- 2000 - Lewis Schaffer Plus 2 with comics Patrice O'Neal, Rich Vos and Bert Kreischer
- 2008 - America, the Greatest Country in the World
- 2009 - Lewis Schaffer - Bigger and Blacker
- 2010 - Lewis Schaffer is "Free until Famous" (Previously titled "Jimmy Carr, Live")
- 2011 - Lewis Schaffer is "Free until Famous, 18th Year"
- 2011 - Lewis Schaffer is "Free until Famous, 18th Year, Again" (Tentative title)
[edit] References
- ^ Fleming, John. "So it Goes - John Fleming". Wordpress,com. http://thejohnfleming.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/the-unnecessarily-old-lewis-schaffer-his-secret-sex-scandal-and-his-apparently-never-ending-comedy-show/. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
- ^ a b "The Stage, 16 June 2009". http://www.thestage.co.uk/features/feature.php/24733/chit-chat-stunt-runner.
- ^ "Chortle, 19 June 2009". http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2009/06/19/9117/oh!_what_a_hedgehog.
- ^ "The Stage, 26 June 2009". http://www.thestage.co.uk/features/feature.php/24846/dont-rely-on-a-cunning-stunt.
- ^ Brown, Angie (28 August 2009). "BBC News, 28 August 2009". http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8226733.stm. Retrieved 22 September 2010.
- ^ "British Comedy Guide, August 2009". http://www.comedy.co.uk/fringe/2010/features/malcolm_hardee_award_nominees_2010/. Retrieved 22 September 2010.
[edit] External links
- Official Lewis Schaffer Website
- The Source Below - home of Lewis Schaffer's Free until Famous
- London is Funny "New king of Soho"
- The Guardian (UK) Profile
- The Scotsman Review
- BBC News reporting Cunning Stunt Award
- Chortle.co.uk biography
- Fest Magazine Edinburgh Fringe Festival Review
- London Evening Standard Review
- The Argus, Brighton Review
- [http://www.resonancefm.com Resonance FM and "Voice of Americans with Lewis Schaffer of Nunhead"
- [2]
