Simon Munnery

Simon grew up in Watford before attending Cambridge University in the mid eighties.

 Throughout the nineties, he performed lengthy sell-out runs at West End theatres (Lyric, Soho Theatre, ICA) and international festivals (Melbourne, Adelaide, Aspen, New York) of his wildly eccentric shows featuring alongside stand-up his characters including Alan Parker: Urban Warrior, The League Against Tedium and Buckethead.

 In 1996, he starred in ITV’s flagship stand-up show Saturday Live, won a Sony Gold Radio Award for his BBC Radio 1 series Alan Parker’s 29 Minutes Of Truth and was nominated for a British Comedy Award for his BBC2 show (co-written with Graham Linehan) London Shouting.

In recent years, he has made a raft of TV and radio appearances including BBC2’s It’s Kevin, Comedy Central’s Alternative Comedy Experience, Radio 4’s News Quiz, Now Show and Genius, ITV2’s Comedy Cuts, BBC2’s Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle and The Culture Show. Spring 2011 saw another sell-out run at Soho Theatre and forty-date tour UK and Australia tour of Self-Employed.