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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Cautionary Tales Ebook
- Cautionary Tales for Grown-Ups
- It wasn't me
- Cautionary Tales
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Film & TV
Didsbury, Manchester, England, UK
Chris Addison is an English stand-up comedian, writer and actor. He is known for his lecture-style comedy shows, two of which he later adapted for BBC Radio 4. In addition to stand-up, in television he plays Ollie in the BBC 2 television satire The Thick of It and Toby in its spin-off film In the Loop, and he co-created and starred in the BBC 2 sitcom Lab Rats. In radio he hosts the weekly comedy…
Known for
- The Academy of Armando — Self2025
- Spinal Tap II: The End Continues — Simon Howler2025
- Mozart: Rise of a Genius — Self2024
- Public Service Broadcasting - BBC Proms - This New Noise - Live At The Royal Albert Hall — Self2022
- Victoria Wood: The Secret List — Self2020
- Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans — Colin2019
- We Love Sitcom2016
- Insert Name Here — Self - Panelist2016
- Patriot2015
- Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven — Seb2014
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- 353
- Total plays
- 6,367
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Chris Addison (born November 1971 in Manchester) is an English stand-up comedian, writer and actor with a career that has spanned over a decade. He is known for his lecture-style comedy shows, two of which he later adapted for BBC Radio 4, as well as for his roles as Ollie in the BBC television satirical comedy The Thick of It and Toby in its spin-off film In the Loop. He also starred in and co-created Lab Rats, a sitcom that aired on BBC2 in 2008. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Chris+Addiso
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Chris
- Family name
- Addison
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Cardiff
- Occupation
- screenwriter
- Educated at
- The Manchester Grammar School
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Veep
- Field of work
- film production
- Genre
- satire
- Image
- Chris Addison cropped.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
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- date of birth
- 1971-11-05
- social media followers
- 380016
- Commons category
- Chris Addison
- birth name
- Christopher David Addison
- start of work period
- 1995-00-00
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