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Chris Addison

Chris Addison

  • 53 years old
  • English
  • Actor, writer, director and stand-up comedian

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Brexitphobic comedians are the real populists

Sneering at the 'enemy within', stand-ups today are bien pensant demagogues.

Patrick West, Spiked, 7th April 2017

Chris Addison to direct Dirty Rotten Scoundrels remake

British comedian and actor Chris Addison is set to make his feature directorial debut with Dirty Rotten Scoundrels remake Nasty Women. The film will star Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson and is set-up over at MGM.

Paul Heath, Hollywood News, 29th March 2017

Chris Addison forgets David Cameron's dementia record

Chris Addison is the archetypal virtue signalling BBC lefty luvvie. If right-on Addison was as informed as he likes his Twitter followers to think, he would know that Cameron prioritised Alzheimer's and dementia while in government.

Order Order, 27th January 2017

7 things you didn't know about Chris Addison

Chris Addison is a stand-up comedian, actor, and television host known best for his role as Ollie Reader in The Thick Of It. There is some resentment surrounding Addison, likely because he doesn't appear to age. Like Benjamin Button or Jensen Ackles, he might actually be getting younger.

Anglonerd, 11th April 2016

Review - QI: Series M, Episode 16 - Misconceptions

Bye-Bye Stephen...

Ian Wolf, On The Box, 21st February 2016

After rattling through half an alphabet's worth of "quite interesting" trivia, and finding endlessly inventive ways of calling Alan Davies an idiot, Stephen Fry finally steps down from his role of QI's avuncular headmaster tonight. But first there's a final light-hearted lecture to get through, on the subject of misconceptions. The panel of Chris Addison, Sue Perkins and Sara Cox isn't quite a classic by QI standards - where's Bill Bailey?! - but one final opportunity for some Fry-and-Davies back-and-forth should make up for that.

Gwilym Mumford, The Guardian, 19th February 2016

Chris Addison: My six best books

Chris Addison selects his favourite books.

The Daily Express, 13th February 2016

Interview: Chris Addison on opera

After acclaim as an actor and director in The Thick of It and Veep, Chris Addison now has a stage role at Covent Garden.

Vanessa Thorpe, The Observer, 24th January 2016

Chris Addison makes Royal Opera debut

Comedian and actor Chris Addison will make his Royal Opera debut in February's "fabulously frothy" L'Étoile in a role specially created by director Mariame Clément.

Charlotte Marshall, London Theatre Guide, 5th January 2016

Chris Addison on Glyndebourne

Because I've spent the past 10 years and more politico-baiting on sitcoms including The Thick Of It, snook-cocking on panel shows and generally goofing about to mildly satirical effect, people seem to find it hard to process the idea that I could possibly be a committed fan of opera.

Chris Addison, The Telegraph, 16th September 2015

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