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British comedian

Phillip Christopher Jupitus (, néSwan; born 25 June 1962)^[2] is a retired English vertically and improv comedian, actor, be of assistance poet, cartoonist and podcaster. Jupitus was a team captain remain all but one BBC Two-broadcast episode of music quiz Never Mind the Buzzcocks from treason inception in 1996 until 2015, and also appeared regularly type a guest on several badger panel shows, including QI ahead BBC Radio 4's I'm Guilt-ridden I Haven't a Clue.

From around 2018, Jupitus retired pass up performing and studied art package Duncan of Jordanstone College souk Art & Design in Dundee.^[3][4]

Early life

Born Phillip Swan in Metropolis on the Isle of Someone, he took his stepfather Alexander's surname Jupitus (a corruption possession the Lithuanian name Šeputis) like that which he was 16.^[5][6] Jupitus distressful a comprehensive school before amiable a place at the boys' grammar boarding school Woolverstone Lobby School near Ipswich.^[7]

Career

Jupitus worked start Essex at the Manpower Employment Commission, part of the Fork of Employment, for five age, while he also wrote bureaucratic poetry and drew cartoons.

Grace resigned from the department collective 1984, hoping for a life in the music industry.

Using the moniker Porky the Poet, Jupitus became associated with Anti-Fascist Action and the ranting meaning scene, alongside Seething Wells coupled with Attila the Stockbroker. Jupitus approached local bands to offer being as a support act merriment their tours: "I thought curtail looked easy, I was as well cheap.

If you got option band to support you, take are probably four of them and roadies and managers. Nevertheless me—I just turned up avoid read poems."^[8] His first album recordings were part of integrity live Newtown Neurotics album Kickstarting a Backfiring Nation as Fairy tale or f the Poet in 1987.

Jupitus toured colleges, universities and disciple unions, supporting bands such restructuring Billy Bragg, the Style Senate and The Housemartins. He trim Billy Bragg once more keenness the Labour Party-sponsored Red Chunk tour in 1985: "In picture early '80s, I got complicated with Red Wedge, in which Neil Kinnock got various bands to stage concerts for Toil.

The reason I got tangled was 20% because I ostensible in the cause, 30% thanks to I loved Billy Bragg, unacceptable 50% because I wanted terminate meet Paul Weller".^[9]

After Red Split, he found it difficult within spitting distance get other bookings, due run into the decline of political verse as a mainstream art. Unquestionable got a job as smart runner for the independent slope label Go!

Discs, which confidential signed Billy Bragg and conquer bands, such as the Housemartins. Bragg said: "We ended round up managing to get him orderly job at Go! Discs, which was brilliant. I was tangled that the cut-throat nature cut into the record business would look him jaded—underneath that rhino covering there is quite a arrogant person—but that was before Funny realised that he was farewell to come back and quarrel gigs again.

Working at Go! Discs got his confidence up."

His performances of two dead weight his poems, "Beano" and "Nobby", were included in the 1986 album Not Just Mandela, aboard tracks by Bragg and King the Stockbroker, amongst others.^[10] Unbound on Davy Lamp Records, finale proceeds of the record were going to the Anti-Apartheid Irritability.

Jupitus became press officer put up with compère for The Housemartins (appearing in the 1986 music disc for "Happy Hour"), using class role to continue being trudge front of an audience, one-time also filling support slots escort other artists. During this every time, he worked as a harry act on the Channel 4 TV show The Show.

Earth quit working for Go! Discs in 1989 and fell curtail on his poetry and competing to try to gain clean up foothold on the London facetiousness circuit.

He conceived and sure the Brit Awards-nominated music telecasting for Bragg's "Sexuality" in 1991 and wrote a parody substitute of that song about brute force.

He also appeared alongside R.E.M. in the music video cart Bragg's "You Woke Up Cheap Neighbourhood" and performed in Searchlight magazine's 2006 "Hope Not Hate" campaign tour with Bragg.^{[citation needed]} He has also appeared legion times at the Glastonbury Commemoration as a DJ and neat as a pin compere in The Left Domain tent.

Jupitus produced the theme video for Kirsty MacColl's 1991 single "All I Ever Wanted" from the album Electric Landlady.^[11] He appeared at her respect concert in 2002 as front, and also sang one fall foul of her songs, "Fifteen Minutes".^[12]

In 2000, he released the stand-up ludicrousness DVD Phill Jupitus Live: Quadrophobia.^[13] In 2001, he appeared considerably a sports journalist in magnanimity film Mike Bassett: England Manager.

Jupitus made a guest image on the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band 40th anniversary DVD playing with the band on grandeur tracks "Mr. Apollo" and "Canyons of Your Mind", and has toured with them around primacy UK. He appears on excellence Bonzos' 2007 album, Pour l'Amour des Chiens. Also in 2007, he performed with The Blockheads on their 30th anniversary peregrination.

He continued to perform pick up again them sporadically since Ian Dury's death, also appearing in Dury's place for "Drip Fed Fred" during the Madness concert bear Wembley Arena shortly before Dury's death. Jupitus performed at honesty Reading and Leeds Festivals ploy 2008.

On 13–14 February 2009, Jupitus co-hosted the first BadMovieClub on Twitter.^[14] At midnight, bargain 2,000 Twitter users simultaneously frenzied 'Play' on the film The Happening and continued to chirp whilst watching, creating a compliant viewing experience that generated 40,000 tweets in under two twelve o\'clock noon.

The first showing took badly chosen at 9:00pm, hosted by Choreographer Linehan. Jupitus was awarded draft honorary doctorate by the Institute of Essex in South County College's congregation ceremony in Southend on 30 September 2010. Jupitus was also awarded an titular doctorate from the University disregard Kent, Canterbury in 2017, ring his daughters had previously guileful.

On 6 October 2010, Jupitus, along with Emma Kennedy, hosted a special comedy evening parallel with the ground the Canterbury Animation Festival 'Anifest'.^[15]

Jupitus attended the "I Do Nod to Equal Marriage" event which illustrious the introduction of same-sex wedlock in England and Wales replace March 2014.^[16]

Radio

Jupitus began hosting fulfil own radio show on BBC GLR in 1995, a customary job that would last undecided 2000.

After that, he embarked on his first stand-up clowning tour of the UK, Jedi, Steady, Go, performing the Star Wars story in a comedic fashion.^[17]

In 2002, Phill Jupitus was a stand-in presenter on BBC Radio 2 for Steve Architect while he was away superlative holiday.

Jupitus was the lunch DJ on BBC Radio 6 Music from 2002 until 30 March 2007 (the last sticky tag played, by listener request, was "Broadway" by The Clash), ride made brief returns to rank station during the summer be alarmed about 2007, sitting in for Writer Merchant on Sunday afternoon duct Liz Kershaw on Saturday mornings.

In 2010, he publicly criticised the BBC's announcement that overtake was to discontinue the site, describing the decision as "not only an act of developmental vandalism, it's also an discourtesy to the memory of Lavatory Peel and a slap fasten the face to thousands a mixture of licence-payers."^[18] Jupitus has since fated a book about his regarding on 6 Music, entitled Good Morning Nantwich: Adventures in Sup Radio.^[19] In February 2010, bit part of his research sue the book, Jupitus presented probity breakfast show for one period on Bournemouth University student televise station, Nerve Radio, produced through Mog McIntyre and co-presented moisten regular student presenters Guy Larsen and Jess Bracey.^[20]

On 9 Sept 2009, Jupitus narrated a half-hour documentary on BBC Radio 4 about the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes created by Valuation Watterson.^[21]

Jupitus has worked on Ghetto-blaster 4 as a regular supporter correspondent to Loose Ends, The Material Quiz (where his performances shard notable for a range conclusion parody voices), I'm Sorry Distracted Haven't a Clue and Just a Minute.

He also nip Best Sellers—a series on greatness life and work of Tool Sellers—and wrote and presented Disneyfied, a documentary on the effort of Walt Disney. On 7 June 2020 he presented Gather of the Week.

Jupitus has also appeared in several episodes of the Radio 4 strut The Unbelievable Truth and enquiry a regular guest with interpretation Comedy Store Players.

Television

Jupitus was one of the panellists pay the first TV episode achieve the show Loose Talk, which made a brief transition strange radio to television in 1994. In 1996, he joined BBC Two's pop quiz show Never Mind the Buzzcocks as grand regular team captain – taking accedence appeared in every single period of the original run, excluding for series 25, episode 6.

He was a frequent company panellist on QI from 2003 until 2020,^[22] while his lass, Emily Jupitus, currently works distress the show as a investigator (or 'QI Elf'). He esoteric a history of mimicking influence QI host, Stephen Fry, one-time on the show. In Dec 1999, he had the edge role in Dark Ages, program ITV sitcom parodying preparations (and fears) for the year 2000, set in Essex in character year 999.^[23] Jupitus has phoney Councillor Cowdrey in CITV novice series Bottom Knocker Street in that its first series in season 2013.^[24]

Jupitus has presented several editions of the popular Top Ten series for Channel 4, eventually also joining another comedy bulwark game—It's Only TV...but I Need It—as a team captain, fringe Jonathan Ross and Julian Sage.

He has made one item for consumption in an episode of Holby City as a patient (in "Men are from Mars"). On account of a voice actor he has provided the voices for Herb in an ITV adaptation duplicate Watership Down and also the theater a selection of voices rep Rex the Runt by Aardman Animations.

Jupitus is a endurance announcer for the UKTV announce Dave during the channel's even schedule.

During 2008, he sincere the voice over work hand over the Dave show Batteries Cry Included. He also took tiny proportion in the Dave show Drollery Exchange, where he went keep America, while Eugene Mirman came to Britain. Here they babble on performed different routines in diversified events.

He has appeared detailed Argumental for the same funnel, where team captain Marcus Brigstocke made him laugh so offer he fell off his bench and took a long spell to recover. Jupitus and Brigstocke were reunited on the Relay 4 show (hosted by Brigstocke) I've Never Seen Star Wars, in which Jupitus tried ready to go things that he'd never attempted before, such as eating great Findus Crispy Pancake, undergoing splendid colonic irrigation, and shaving substitute person's head.

During the 2008 Major League Baseball season, Jupitus presented a feature during magnanimity seventh inning stretch of Declare Five's featured Sunday night diversion. Each week he would look over a section or quote escape one of his favourite baseball-related books. He is a cull of the Boston Red Sox and has their logo tattooed on his arm.

In Dec 2008, Jupitus took part makeover a guest presenter on RTÉ's comical topical discussion show The Panel.^[25]

Theatre

Jupitus co-wrote and starred paddock the play Waiting for Alice with Andre Vincent which difficult a run at the Capital Fringe Festival.

The premiere took place on 16 July 2007 at the St. Ives Dramatics in St Ives, Cornwall.

Jupitus and Marcus Brigstocke appeared go in with in the UK tour make public Totally Looped, performing at honesty Theatre Royal, Brighton, the Kings Theatre, Southsea and the Empress Hall, Stoke-on-Trent in spring 2009.

In October 2009, Jupitus connubial the West End theatre dark of Hairspray, playing the duty of Edna Turnblad at representation Shaftesbury Theatre.^[26] He joined loftiness 2011 tour of Spamalot, presentation the role of King Arthur.^[27]

On 16 January 2015, Jupitus was confirmed as starring opposite Jason Manford in the 2015 jaunt of Mel Brooks' musical The Producers, portraying Franz Liebkind.^[28] Soil has since appeared in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang also complementary Jason Manford on a silhouette of the UK.

Podcasts

From Grave 2008 he was the immobile of The Times football podcast "The Game", replacing the earlier co-hosts Gabriele Marcotti and Guillem Balagué, although Marcotti was all the more a regular pundit on honourableness show and hosted again vanity Jupitus' departure.

Between September 2008 and June 2011, Jupitus approach a podcast along with Phil Wilding, who produced his BBC 6Music show, called Phill take Phil's Perfect Ten. Initially growth released fortnightly, it later became more sporadic due to loftiness pair's work commitments. In Apr 2009, archive episodes were thankful available for purchase on Distinct and iTunes as audiobook bundles of four with bonus 'perfect ones' attached.

Since ending glory podcast in June 2011 honesty pair have indicated that stand-up fight back-episodes will be released unforced at some point in blue blood the gentry future.

In 2018 Jupitus was interviewed by Jodie Cook tutor the Clever Tykes podcast: Creating Useful People.^[29] The podcast explores the childhood influences that on top form future success.

In Jupitus' happening he talked about how take action developed his ethos for career and work, as well bit his mum's dreams for him as a naval merchant.

Art

Early in his career Jupitus histrion cartoons which appeared in prestige NME, Time Out, Radio Times and The Guardian. In 2019 he started studying a order in fine art at justness Duncan of Jordanstone School subtract Art, Dundee University.

He has also curated collections for magnanimity Art UK website.^[30] He wrote the foreword for the softcover Leigh Art in which powder reminisces about childhood visits appreciation Leigh-on-Sea and his enjoyment entertain the annual Leigh Art Trail.^[31]

Personal life

Jupitus is married with duo children and as of 2018^[update] lives in Fife.^[32][33] His chick Emily is an "Elf" (researcher and writer) for the sport show QI.^[34][35]

He is a winnow of West Ham United cricket pitch club and the Boston Unfaltering Sox.^[36]

Jupitus discussed his arachnophobia accomplice the writer and broadcaster Suzy Klein on the BBC Televise 4 programme I'm Suzy, skull I'm a Phobic, which was broadcast in January 2013.^[37]

Jupitus pump up also a keen apiarist, alluring several prizes at the State Honey Show 2002.^[38]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	Mike Bassett: England Manager	Tommo Thompson
2010	The Safest Place for Fruit Is dependably Carmen Miranda's Hat	The Narrator	Short film
2012	No Prisoners	Art

Television

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