Chris McCausland

Chris McCausland
Born 22 april 1977
Liverpool, England
Medium Comedian, actor
Genres Television, stand-up

Chris McCausland (born 22 April 1977) is a British stand-up comedian and actor, known to TV audiences for his role as Rudi in the Cbeebies show Me Too! He regularly appears at comedy venues around the UK, including The Comedy Store.

Personal life

McCausland was born in West Derby Village in Liverpool but has lived in Surbiton near Kingston Upon Thames since 1996, after moving there to study at Kingston University.[1][2] He graduated in 2000, with a BSc Honours in software engineering.[1] After a spell as a web developer, deteriorating eyesight prompted a change of direction, and McCausland worked in sales for a number of years,[2] during which time he first performed stand-up comedy in 2003.[1][2] He is married with a daughter.[1][2]

Stand-up comedy

He first gave stand-up a go at a new act comedy night in Balham in July 2003. Within his first year of performing, he won the Jongleurs J2O Last Laugh competition, came runner up in the Laughing Horse New Act of The Year and placed third in Channel 4's So You Think You're Funny competition.

Between 2005 and 2012, he took six different stand-up shows to the Edinburgh Festival and in 2011 was awarded the Creative Diversity Award for comedy by a Channel 4-led panel of broadcasters which also included BBC, ITV and Sky. He has performed all over the world, including across Asia and the Middle East, and regularly travels the UK playing the countries' top comedy clubs. More recently, McCausland appeared on the BBC's Live at the Apollo (TV series)|Live at the Apollo on the 4th January 2018.

Television

In 2014, he fronted a national television advert for Barclays, promoting the benefits of their new talking cash machines.[3] In 2014, he starred in the Jimmy McGovern drama series Moving On, alongside Anna Crilly and Neil Fitzmaurice. In 2012, he appeared alongside fellow comedians in Jimmy Carr's Comedians Special charity episode of Celebrity Deal or No Deal.

McCausland appeared in three series of At The Comedy Store in 2008 for Paramount Comedy, and in 2010 and 2012 for Comedy Central. In 2011 he appeared in ITV's series Stand-up Hero. In 2010, he featured in BBC One's end of year spoof news review, Unwrapped with Miranda Hart. He was also one of the principal characters in the CBeebies series Me Too!, playing Rudi the market trader. Filmed in 2006, it is still currently airing daily on CBeebies and internationally.

On August 20th 2018 he appeared in the long running BBC soap opera Eastenders

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "{title}". Archived from the original on 2016-08-18. Retrieved 2016-08-06.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Samuelson, Kate (9 January 2016). "Meet the West Derby stand up who wouldn't let blindness ruin his comedy career".
  3. ↑ Red Bee (10 September 2013). "Barclays Talking ATM - Your Bank" – via YouTube.
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