Geoff Norcott

Geoff Norcott
Born Geoffrey Frank Norcott
(1976-12-16) 16 December 1976
Sutton, Surrey, England
Occupation Stand Up Comedian, Comedy Writer and Television presenter
Spouse(s) Married

Geoffrey Frank Norcott (born 16 December 1976 in Sutton, London)[1] is an English comedian[2] who has been performing since 2001. He claims to be the only outwardly Conservative Party voter on the British comedy circuit.[3]

Career

Born in Sutton, Norcott grew up on a council estate in the neighbouring London borough of Merton. Both of his parents were disabled.

Norcott was previously an English Literature teacher and employs this in developing his routine. He has written comedy sketches for MTV, BBC Radio 2 & 4, and was a commissioned writer for Nuts TV from 2007-8. He was also involved with developing the football documentary Football Hurts.

On radio, Norcott has appeared on Yes It's the Ashes BBC Radio 5 Live, Jon Richardson's Show on BBC Radio 6 Music and has had frequent guest spots on Hawksby & Jacobs Show for Talksport.

In 2009, Norcott had his second solo show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe , The Shocking Truth about Men and Women at the Pleasance.

Norcott is a supporter of the Conservative Party.[4] His 2016 Edinburgh show, Conswervative, focused on his rarity as a pro-Brexit Conservative voter on the comedy circuit.[5]

In October 2017, the conservative commentator Iain Dale listed Norcott at Number 91 on the list of the '100 most influential on the Right'[6].

As of January 2018, Norcott appeared in BBC2's The Mash Report.

Television and radio credits

  • Question time (panellist) BBC 1 2017
  • Yes It's The Ashes BBC Radio 5 (guest comic) 2009
  • GMTV (guest comic) 2009
  • Jon Richardson Show (guest comic) BBC Six Music 2009
  • WKD Shed Sports Show, Nuts TV 2008 - Presenter
  • Nuts TV Shed Sports 1, Nuts TV 2007 - Presenter
  • Hawksbee & Jacobs Show, Talksport (Regular Contributor)
  • Most Appalling TV We Love To Hate, BBC3 2007
  • Spoof, BBC1 2007
  • My Appalling School Report BBC 2
  • Teachers' TV 2006
  • Five O'clock Show with Richard Hammond, ITV1 2006
  • British Comedy of the 1960s DVD - Monty Python Interview - Edge Publications
  • Now That's Embarrassing....80's, Channel 5 2005
  • Jono Coleman Show, LBC 2005
  • Weapons of Mass Distraction, ITV1
  • Dan and Dusty, ITV1 - 2 episodes
  • The Mash Report, BBC2 2018
  • Mock the Week, BBC2 2018

References

  1. ↑ https://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/world-records/england-and-wales-births-1837-2006?firstname=geoff%20&firstname_variants=true&lastname=norcott&eventyear=1976&eventyear_offset=1
  2. ↑ "Comic Relief". Reading Chronicle. 8 January 2010. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
  3. ↑ Geoff Norcott and Grainne Maguire on political stand-up, 2016-08-05, retrieved 2017-01-28
  4. ↑ "Like Kate Bush, I 'came out' as a Tory and faced a ridiculously hysterical leftie response". The Independent. 30 November 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  5. ↑ "This is what it's like to be the only pro-Tory, pro-Brexit right-wing comedian doing the Edinburgh Fringe". The Independent. 10 August 2016. Retrieved 11 August 2011.
  6. ↑ Dale, Iain (2 October 2017). "Iain Dale's 100 most influential people on the Right 2017. May tops it. Davis is second. And Davidson third. | Conservative Home". Conservative Home. Retrieved 2017-10-30.
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