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I'm a stand-up comedian and sometimes chaotic cook. You can hear me on BBC Radio programmes quite often on shows like Just A Minute, Broadcasting House and MacAulay & Co where I jabber sixteen to the dozen and often try to get the subject onto food. When I'm not working as a comic, I'm equally happy transforming a pig’s head into a giant wobbling brawn, gutting cuttlefish, or not being able watch my soufflés (sometimes) triumphantly rise as the bulb in the oven has gone.
In 2008 I combined my enthusiasms by presenting a show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe called Chris Neill's Got A Bun In The Oven where I told jokes about food and cooking (with some knob gags on the side) all the while preparing a variety of venison offal dishes for the audience to chow down on.
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Recent Posts Tagged With 'broadcasting house'
Jun 26
The entirely beautiful food magazine Fire & Knives has published a piece by me on the most astonishing person I’ve ever met, Sir Clement Freud. If you’re not already a subscriber please do become one: despite my presence in its pages there (read full article)
broadcasting house, Clement Freud, fire & knives, People, radio 4
Dec 08
There is something intensely silly about cooking on the radio, not quite as daft as a ventriloquist act having his own wireless show, but getting that way, nevertheless. Woman’s Hour loves the occasional studio item where somebody produces s (read full article)
bbc, broadcasting house, delia smith, fergus henderson, jenny murray, marguerite patten, nose to tail eating, paddy o'connell, Radio, radio 4