Simon Evans (comedian)
Simon Evans (born 9 May 1965), is an English comedian, born in Luton and currently living in Hove.
Early life
Simon Evans attended Verulam School in St Albans and then studied law at Southampton University, graduating in 1986.
Stand-up comedy
Evans is an established act on the UK stand-up comedy circuit. His style has been characterised as arrogant, aloof, snobbish and disparaging towards the Welsh and people from the North East. He is currently a warm up act on Lee Mack's most recent tour - Going Out across the UK, 2010.
He has also performed one man shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe since 2000 and has performed at the New Zealand Comedy Festival 2002, Cape Town Comedy Festival 2001 as well as in Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, Beijing, Winnipeg and Dubai. In July 2004 he performed at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal, and the following spring at the Aspen Comedy Festival in Colorado. In July 2010 he supported Emo Philips at Latitude Festival in Suffolk.
Television writing
Evans has written for TV shows including:
- The Big Breakfast
- Lily Savage
- Johnny Vaughan Tonight
- The State We're In
- TV Heaven, Telly Hell
- The Late Edition
- They Think It's All Over
- Revolver
- Eight out of Ten Cats
- Turn Back Time
- Not Going Out
Television appearances
He has appeared on the Comedy Store (Five) and The Stand Up Show (BBC1). Simon's other television appearances include the Comedy Network, Five's Company (Five) and an appearance on The Krypton Factor.
- Brain Candy (BBC Choice) (2002)
- The Way It Is (BBC1) (2000)
- Edinburgh Nights (BBC2)
- The Comedy Store (Five)
- The Stand Up Show (BBC1)
- Gas (Channel 4)
- Only Fools and Horses (1990)
- Life's a Pitch (BBC1) (2000)
- The Comedy Network (Five)
- Five's Company (Five)
- Take a Girl Like You (2000)
- Rich Hall's Cattle Drive (2006) as Melvin Turpin
- Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow (BBC1) (2010)
Radio
Evans appears regularly on BBC Radio 4 - hosting and writing seven series of the spoof news show The Way It Is (as Richard Richard), as well as appearing on numerous panel games including the News Quiz, Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive and the Unbelievable Truth, and discussion programmes such as Off The Page.
He is a regular contributor to both Radio 4 and London Live and has had full-length comedy scripts commissioned by the BBC for both TV and radio.
- The Way It Is (Radio 4) - Writer and performer
- Best Policy (Radio 4) - Anchored
- True Lies, A world without... and others (Radio 4) - Pundit/panellist
- Beating the System (Radio 4) – Sole writer and performer
- Troublestarter (Radio 4) - Three part series - Sole writer and performer
- The Mighty Boosh (Radio 4) - Performer
- The News Quiz (Radio 4) - Performer
- The Big Booth (Radio 4) - Performer
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