Chris Morris (I)
- 62 years old
- English
- Actor, writer, director, producer and composer
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The explosive return of Chris Morris
The satirist's new film was inspired by the FBI's attempts to manufacture terrorists. He talks about the problem with white liberals - and his duty to provoke.
Catherine Shoard, The Guardian, 27th September 2019Chris Morris: There's good satire - and being offensive
Years before the term "cancel culture" took off and before comedians faced comeuppance for offensive tweets, Chris Morris was deemed "the most hated man in Britain." Needless to say, he's well-positioned to dig into these sensitive times -- and, unlike many comedians, he's sympathetic to them.
Eric Kohn, IndieWire, 24th September 2019Edinburgh run for Stewart Lee
Stewart Lee is doing a run at the Edinburgh Fringe. Lee will also be performing at a special show in London where the acclaimed documentary about Chris Morris, Oxide Ghosts, will also be screened.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 18th April 2019Chris Morris on his newest film 'The Day Shall Come'
British comedian and filmmaker Chris Morris has made a career of combining scathing comedy with news-worthy topicality.
Mark Olsen, LA Times, 16th March 2019Chris Morris on 'The Day Shall Come'
In a rare interview, the man behind some of the U.K.'s most influential and incendiary satire discusses his long-awaited follow-up to Four Lions and shifting his satirical skewer to U.S. shores.
Alex Ritman, Hollywood Reporter, 13th March 2019The Day Shall Come review
Chris Morris returns with wild farce.
Benjamin Lee, The Guardian, 12th March 2019The Day Today is still predicting the future of TV news
"It's a programme designed to knock current affairs broadcasting off its axis," the Radio Times wrote in 1994, "then blow a hole in its spluttering head". It did nothing of the sort.
Jude Rogers, The New Statesman, 22nd January 2019How The Day Today changed satire forever
25 years ago, Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci's uproarious news spoof unleashed Fake News on the world (not to mention Alan Partridge).
Phil Harrison, The Guardian, 17th January 2019How The Day Today could have been made for 2019
When The Day Today was first broadcast on 19 January 1994, its rambunctious, attention-demanding presentation and news items on 'bomb dogs' the theft of the pound and wild horses running amok on the London Underground was obvious satire. But revisiting Chris Morris' sharp-as-a-tack spoof today, the lines somehow blur.
Alex Nelson, i Newspaper, 17th January 2019Chris Morris returns to satirising the war on terror
Chris Morris's new film, The Day Shall Come, revisits Four Lions's satire on the war on terrorism and draws upon the life of Malcolm X.
Jay Richardson, Chortle, 13th January 2019