Chris Morris
CountryUnited Kingdom 
GenderMale
BirthdayJuni 15, 1962
BiographyChristopher J. Morris (born 15 June 1962) is an English comedian, radio presenter, actor and filmmaker. Known for his deadpan, dark humour, surrealism and controversial subject matter, he has been praised by the British Film Institute for his "uncompromising, moralistic drive".
Morris teamed up with his radio producer Armando Iannucci in the early 1990s to create On the Hour, a satire of news programmes. A television spin off, The Day Today, launched the career of comedian Steve Coogan and was hailed as one of the most important satirical shows of the 1990s. Morris further developed the satirical news format with Brass Eye, which lampooned celebrities whilst focusing on themes such as crime and drugs. For some, the apotheosis of Morris's career was a Brass Eye special dealing with the moral panic surrounding paedophilia. It became one of the most complained-about programmes in British television history, leading the Daily Mail to describe him as "the most loathed man on TV".
Morris's similarly controversial postmodern sketch comedy and ambient music radio show Blue Jam gained a cult following. It was adapted into the TV series Jam, hailed as "the most radical and original television programme broadcast in years", and Morris won the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film after expanding a Blue Jam sketch into My Wrongs 8245–8249 & 117 starring Paddy Considine. Nathan Barley, a sitcom written in collaboration with then little-known Charlie Brooker that satirised hipsters, had low ratings but success with its DVD release. Morris joined the cast of sitcom The IT Crowd, his first project in which he did not have writing or producing input.
In 2010, Morris directed his feature-length film, Four Lions, which satirised Islamic terrorism through its portrayal of a group of inept British Muslims. Reception was largely positive, earning Morris his second BAFTA Film Award, this time for Outstanding Debut. He has directed four episodes of Iannucci's political comedy Veep and appeared onscreen in The Double and Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle also serving as script-editor for the latter. His second feature-length film, The Day Shall Come, was released in 2019.
Biography from the Wikipedia article Chris Morris (satirist). Licensed under CC-BY-SA. Full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Morris teamed up with his radio producer Armando Iannucci in the early 1990s to create On the Hour, a satire of news programmes. A television spin off, The Day Today, launched the career of comedian Steve Coogan and was hailed as one of the most important satirical shows of the 1990s. Morris further developed the satirical news format with Brass Eye, which lampooned celebrities whilst focusing on themes such as crime and drugs. For some, the apotheosis of Morris's career was a Brass Eye special dealing with the moral panic surrounding paedophilia. It became one of the most complained-about programmes in British television history, leading the Daily Mail to describe him as "the most loathed man on TV".
Morris's similarly controversial postmodern sketch comedy and ambient music radio show Blue Jam gained a cult following. It was adapted into the TV series Jam, hailed as "the most radical and original television programme broadcast in years", and Morris won the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film after expanding a Blue Jam sketch into My Wrongs 8245–8249 & 117 starring Paddy Considine. Nathan Barley, a sitcom written in collaboration with then little-known Charlie Brooker that satirised hipsters, had low ratings but success with its DVD release. Morris joined the cast of sitcom The IT Crowd, his first project in which he did not have writing or producing input.
In 2010, Morris directed his feature-length film, Four Lions, which satirised Islamic terrorism through its portrayal of a group of inept British Muslims. Reception was largely positive, earning Morris his second BAFTA Film Award, this time for Outstanding Debut. He has directed four episodes of Iannucci's political comedy Veep and appeared onscreen in The Double and Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle also serving as script-editor for the latter. His second feature-length film, The Day Shall Come, was released in 2019.
Biography from the Wikipedia article Chris Morris (satirist). Licensed under CC-BY-SA. Full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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