Chris Neill

Chris Neill is a British comedian, producer and writer who features regularly on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Scotland. Performing also as a stand-up comedian on the UK circuit, he has presented five solo shows on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe since 2002.

Born in 1968, Chris Neill began his career producing comedy and entertainment shows for BBC Radio. Between 1993 and 2000 he worked as a producer for BBC Radio Entertainment and since then he has continued to make shows for BBC radio networks as a freelance. His productions include The Hudson And Pepperdine Show, Just A Minute, The News Huddlines, Weekending, Lee And Herring, Rainer Hersch's 20th Century Retrospective, Kit And The Widow - Sanitised For The Wireless, It's That Jo Caulfield Again, Quote ... Unquote, Miranda Hart's House Party, Cambridge Footlights: A Retrospective, ... by Woody Allen, Clement Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Why The Big Pause? Talk Of New York and Sean Lock's 15 Storeys High.

In 2000, he started to appear as a panellist on shows such as Just a Minute, The Motion Show and Quote Unquote. He had a regular role as Chris, the live-in builder with a fear of completing any job, in the comedy series Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting written by and featuring the eponymous Linda Smith. He also had cameo roles in Sean Lock's 15 Storeys High and The Hudson And Pepperdine Show, as well as writing and presenting a Radio 4 documentary about the legendary Round The Horne star, Betty Marsden. He is a regular newspaper reviewer on the Sunday morning news magazine programme, Broadcasting House, as well as being a weekly contributor to MacAulay & Co on BBC Radio Scotland. In 2005, 2006 and 2008 he co-hosted elements of MacAulay & Co along with Fred MacAulay and Sue Perkins as it was broadcast from the Spiegel Tent every morning during two weeks of the Edinburgh Festival.

Chris made his début as a stand-up comedian at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2002 with his show "Does It With Strangers" at the Pleasance Theatre, and he has returned to the Fringe in 2004 with "The BBC, Andrew Gilligan, And Me" and in 2005 with "Middle Class Misery — the Board Game", both also at the Pleasance Theatre, in 2006 with his show "Everybody Hates Chris (Neill)" at the Underbelly and in 2008 with "Chris Neill's Got A Bun In The Oven" at the Assembly Rooms. He was a core performer in Robin Ince's Book Club both in London and on national tour, and has also worked as a television warm-up.

Chris hosts a monthly food-based comedy show at Lowdown At the Albany entitled Chris Neill's Dirty Kitchen, he also performs as a radio actor and as a voice-over artist. In 2006, he guest starred in the Doctor Who audio drama The Kingmaker. Currently he is planning and writing a new series for BBC Radio Scotland, produced by Bona Broadcasting, about his Scottish roots.

He is openly gay and lives with his partner in London.

External links

• Chris Neill's blog on MySpace