Simon Amstell Biography

Simon Amstell is an English comedian, television host, screenwriter, director, and actor best known for his work as former Popworld host, former Never Mind the Buzzcocks host, and co-writer and star of the comedy Grandma's House. Amstell had his first television debut in 1993 as a participant on the Channel 4 game program GamesMaster. In 1994, he appeared on Good Morning with Anne and Nick, impersonating Dame Edna Everage. Also that year, he appeared on an edition of Family Catch, identifying himself as a young magician and doing one of his tricks for the show's host, magician Andrew O'Connor. Amstell and his family were the lucky winners of a television and a video recorder. Amstell began performing on the comedy circuit in his early teens and went on to become the BBC New Comedy Awards' youngest finalist. In 1998, he made his professional television debut as a presenter on the UK children's channel Nickelodeon. He claims he was terminated for being "sarcastic and cruel to youngsters" however the stated biography on his website also, in joke, asserts:From 2000 to 2006, Amstell presented Popworld on Channel 4 with Miquita Oliver. He portrayed the characters "Timothy the Popworld melon" and "Richard the Popworld horse," and established a highly sardonic, bizarre, and out-of-the-box manner that earned the program a cult following while also enraging many of its guests. One example was "Lemar From Afar," a pretend interview with musician Lemar in which Amstell yelled questions through a megaphone from one end of the world's largest parking lot while Lemar stood at the other. Another was a "Si-chiatrist" interview with The Kooks' Luke Pritchard and Hugh Harris, in which Amstell acted as a psychiatrist and Pritchard and Harris as his patients. Amstell initially appeared as a guest on the comedy program Never Mind the Buzzcocks in 2003 and 2006, during Mark Lamarr's time as presenter. Following Lamarr's departure, he served as a series guest host before being named regular host in October 2006. He remarked at the time that he intended to defy "the general, exceptionless rule that when a new host takes over an established program it is a horrific, embarrassing fiasco". Imagine... A Mildly Amusing Panel Show, a satire of Alan Yentob's arts show Imagine, was written in June 2007 by Amstell and long-term partner Dan Swimer. Yentob and Amstell portray themselves in a pretend interview between "overtly sexual" excerpts from Amstell's Never Mind the Buzzcocks episodes, as characterized by several observers. In February 2008, it was followed by Never Mind the Buzzcocks: A Moving Tribute, which sarcastically indicated that Amstell had died or retired from the program. Amstell received several accolades for his work on Never Mind the Buzzcocks. He won the 2006 Royal Television Society Award for Best Entertainment Performance in March 2007. He received two British Comedy Awards in December 2007 for Best Comedy Entertainment Personality and Best Comedy Entertainment Series for Never Mind the Buzzcocks. Furthermore, at the Broadcast Awards 2008, Never Mind the Buzzcocks was named Best Entertainment Programme[18]. Amstell's era was the reason why Never Mind the Buzzcocks was voted as the 36th-best TV program of the decade by The Times. In 2010, Buzzcocks team captain Noel Fielding allegedly said that Amstell had 'ruined' the program, stating that many individuals were afraid to go on the show for fear of being humiliated or embarrassed by Amstell. Fielding later refuted this. During Fielding's time as a guest captain prior to his regular duty, he had a semi-sarcastic exchange with Amstell during the program, who criticized his weird style of humour. According to the British Comedy Guide, there was conflict between the two of them. Amstell also prompted The Ordinary Boys leader Samuel Preston to walk off set after reading excerpts from his then-wife Chantelle Houghton's memoirs.

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