Chris Morris (I)
- 62 years old
- English
- Actor, writer, director, producer and composer
Press clippings
Why middle-aged men can't get over Nathan Barley
Twenty years since Chris Morris and Charlie Brooker's cult series first aired, fans are still obsessed with the ultimate Shoreditch muppet.
Kyle MacNeill, i Newspaper, 16th February 2025Armando Iannucci & Chris Morris interviewed for BBC arts documentary
Armando Iannucci is to be profiled by the BBC's imagine arts series, in a film that also features interviews with Chris Morris, Steve Coogan, Michael Palin, Rebecca Front, Chris Addison, Jesse Armstrong, Peter Capaldi and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
British Comedy Guide, 14th February 2025How Nathan Barley predicted Britain's rise of the idiots
Twenty years ago, Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris's sitcom brutally satirised 'London media do-nothing posh boys'. Did they get the joke?
Tom Fordy, The Telegraph, 13th February 2025Brass Eye film goes on the road again
Screening dates for Michael Cumming's Oxide Ghosts.
Chortle, 6th September 2024Chris Morris, Noel Fielding & more voice Richard Ayoade's spoof memoir
Chris Morris is returning to acting for the first time in eight years, voicing the audiobook of Richard Ayoade's latest spoof memoir, The Unfinished Harauld Hughes, alongside Stephen Merchant, Noel Fielding, David Mitchell, Sally Hawkins and Lydia Fox.
British Comedy Guide, 15th July 2024Jam: The experimental black comedy by Chris Morris
Life is fragile and baulked about by difficulty. Still, through a series of disturbing and surreal vignettes, Morris provided an experimental critique of our modern ills while making the whole human enterprise the absurdist comedy that it undoubtedly is.
Thomas Leatham, Far Out, 8th February 2024Nathan Barley: the British comedy that foresaw the future of culture
Nathan Barley depicts the self-absorption of East London, where vapid hipsters and narcissistic media online personalities run amok amid a new age of journalism.
Thomas Leatham, Far Out, 5th February 2024Inside No. 9 fools viewers with bus replacement service
Creators and stars Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton played an inspired 'trick' on fans of their anthology series Inside No. 9 this week by creating an episode that didn't even 'exist' and broadcasting an alternative episode that nobody expected.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 18th May 2023Arrest that joke! A history of gags so offensive that punters called the cops
Stand-up Joe Lycett has revealed that he was reported to police for one of his routines. From Sacha Baron Cohen to Jo Brand, Brian Logan looks at what happens when laughter and the law collide.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 28th June 2022Brass Eye's outtakes show the brutal TV comedy was the tip of an iceberg
With rare footage and personal insights, the documentary Oxide Ghosts is a must-see for fans of Chris Morris's satire, which is 25 years old.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 22nd March 2022