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Ross Noble (born 6 June 1976 IMDB) is an English stand-up comedian, born in Cramlington, Northumberland.
Biography
Noble has been performing stand-up since appearing in his local comedy club at the age of 15, despite licensing laws that prohibited him working there and forced him to leave through the kitchen. Coming from Cramlington, a new town, "the ultimate in dullness" helped him with career, he said. "There was nothing to do so I used my imagination a lot, otherwise I would have started climbing the wall."*
Noble has become known as an exciting and original performer and has received huge critical acclaim. His distinctive stand-up routine often turns into an improvised and surreal performance based on informal conversation with the audience and a stream of consciousness delivery.
Amongst the awards he has received include a Perrier Award nomination in 1999 for his Edinburgh Festival show Laser Boy, and a Time Out award winner in 2000 for another Edinburgh show Chickenmaster. He has achieved great popularity in both the UK and Australia, where he has toured extensively every year since 2001.
He has appeared on many TV shows in Australia such as Network Ten's Rove (Live), The Panel, and the ABC's The Glasshouse and Spicks and Specks; and in the UK on BBC's Johnny Vaughan Tonight and Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. Noble has also made six appearances on BBC 1's Have I Got News for You and makes regular contributions to BBC Radio 4's Just a Minute. He has hosted Radio 4's stand up show 4 At The Store.
Noble's worldwide travels as a stand-up were the subject of his own BBC Radio 4 series Ross Noble Goes Global, produced by Danny Wallace. This series, recorded between April and May 2001, saw him recording his observations as he travelled around various countries.
His 2003 show Unrealtime was the official best-selling show at the Edinburgh Fringe, before transferring to London's West End for a month long season at the Garrick Theatre where it played to packed houses. A recording of this tour was shown on BBC Two in 2004, and a double DVD set was released later that year.
During 2004, Noble performed at the Edinburgh Fringe and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and other venues with his show Noodlemeister.
In January 2005, he joined Australian comedian Terri Psiakis in co-hosting Ross and Terri, the weekday lunch shift on national radio station Triple J. Although the show was intended as a "filler" over the ratings-free summer period, the response to the duo on their website was a lot more vicarious than expected.
His 2005 UK tour, Randomist, ran from September to December and is set to tour Australia in 2006. Prior to this, he did a number of warm-up gigs in rural Scotland in tiny places like Peebles, where the topics for fried comedy gold included the crab-like gait of rapper 50 Cent.
Noble married an Australian called Fran (short for Francine), and now lives in Melbourne, though he is often promoted as 'international', or 'all the way from England'. This is similar to a colleague of his, Ben Elton.
In January 2006, Ross once again teamed up with Terri Psiakis on Triple J for two weeks of Ross and Terri in the lunch time slot of 12pm - 3pm. During a broadcast, Ross began a myth claiming that George Foreman has missing fingerprints. The myth has since become widespread. This second period on Triple J also saw Ross and Terri founding "Pants Across Australia", during which, 4 pairs of trousers were sent to the north, south, east and west extremities of Australia and then back to Melbourne.
In April 2006, Ross was involved in a motorbike accident, and both fractured and dislocated his collarbone. Conveniently he crashed right outside a hospital. Ross performed his shows over the following weeks with his arm in a sling.
Tours
Dates apply to UK tours
- Laser Boy – 1999
- Chickenmaster – 2000
- Slackers Playtime – 2001
- Sonic Waffle – 2002
- Unrealtime – 2003
- Noodlemeister – 2004
- Randomist – 2005
- Fizzy Logic – 2006
DVDs
Several recorded performances of Ross are available on DVD. Alongside his performances, the DVDs also offer extras such as commentaries, extra footage, and, on Sonic Waffle, a celebrity muffin game.
- Unrealtime (released October 2004)
- A double DVD set which includes a performance of Noble's Unrealtime show at the Garrick Theatre, as well as a performance at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre.
- Sonic Waffle (released October 2005)
- Includes both an uncut performance from London's Vaudeville Theatre and the recent performance from the BBC TV series Jack Dee Live at the Apollo.
External links
- Ross Noble official website
- Ross Noble Goes Global on bbc.co.uk – listen to the first two series again.
- Ross and Terri on Triple J
- Ross and Terri Quasi-Official Page
- College Days
- Ross Noble talking about Just a Minute (RealPlayer video)
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