Chris Morris Doing Stand Up?

[tylereddyallen]

Hi all, just found this on Chortle.co.uk -

http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2014/02/16/19608/chris_morris,_live_on_stage

Seemingly Morris' first public appearance of 2014.

[Thomas]

It's been nattered about here -

http://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,40925.0.html

But this subforum is probably a suitable place for it. I'm really hoping for a Comedy Vehicle appearance. It'd be a shame for something like this to go totally unrecorded.

[tylereddyallen]

Oh apologies!

Further googling of both Lee and Morris has uncovered this:

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/05/i-have-no-interest-in-you-or-your-life.html

It's a fan writing to Lee and Herring, note how in the image below Stuart Lee describes Chris' face as 'Broken.' Bit unseemly. Also, any idea what he's scribbled out?

[Sexton Brackets Drugbust]

That's a Pixies lyric - Broken Face is one of their songs.

Looks to me to say 'normal' under the scribble. I could easily be wrong, mind.

[tylereddyallen]

Thanks for the context there.

Yeah good deciphering, I think you're right.

[BlodwynPig]

normal was what i was about to write, too

[tylereddyallen]

It hacks me off when people are rude about his skin. Personally I think he's a relatively handsome man.

I remember Piers Morgan and Victor Lewis Smith being smutty about it in various articles. Made my blood boil.

[Thomas]

It hacks me off when people are rude about his skin. Personally I think he's a relatively handsome man.

With a devilish taste in shirts, too.

Last year my arms were patched the hell over with red eczema, and occasionally the skin around my eyes, and if ever I felt self-conscious about it Chris Morris would spring to mind, loping happily about with his birthmark uncovered. Thanks Chris. Thris.

[Sexton Brackets Drugbust]

I'm sure FlipTopHead of CaB Radio insanity alluded to his facial marks not really being birthmarks, but never elaborated.

Morris has a strong jawline, which almost always = handsomeness to some degree.

[Thomas]

I thought it was a 'port wine stain' birthmark, and some acne scarring. A few articles from the Brass Eye days give it as the reason for his not wanting to be photographed, but I don't really believe that. More likely a) he's just a private man, and b) becoming recognisable would defeat a lot of the aims of his career at the time. Same goes for not doing a lot of media interviews.

He's obviously happy to be 'graphed when he's not busy duping celebrities and politicians face-to-face.

[Kane Jones]

I think he used to pretty much always put make-up on it, even when not on telly. Usual vanity of youth, I expect. He's stopped caring now, I guess.  Which is how it should be.

[Sexton Brackets Drugbust]

I thought it was a 'port wine stain' birthmark, and some acne scarring. A few articles from the Brass Eye days give it as the reason for his not wanting to be photographed, but I don't really believe that. More likely a) he's just a private man, and b) becoming recognisable would defeat a lot of the aims of his career at the time. Same goes for not doing a lot of media interviews.

He's obviously happy to be 'graphed when he's not busy duping celebrities and politicians face-to-face.

This was all what I understood, but FTH alluded to knowing differently from her days working in radio production. There was a knowing 'Yes, that's what he tells people' aspect, and a feeling there was a sensitive story there, but it wasn't elaborated on. It could quite easily be bollocks or my own misunderstanding, but I've always wondered about it ever since.

[Thomas]

Ah, I see. It's visible in a couple of Jam sketches, I think.

My girlfriend put makeup around my eyes when I had to have a picture taken, so in a way I know how Chris Morris feels and am exactly like him.

[Sexton Brackets Drugbust]

Ah, I see. It's visible in a couple of Jam sketches, I think.

My girlfriend put makeup around my eyes when I had to have a picture taken, so in a way I know how Chris Morris feels and am exactly like him.

I feel a bit uncomfortable coming to you with half a story like that - it seems unnecessarily salacious of me - but it's something I've been curious about ever since I heard it.

My first name is Chris, My second name begins with M, I'm the same height as him and I started out in local radio. It's like I'm the new him. If I can just get my girlfriend to apply makeup to my face, I've got it made!

[tylereddyallen]

Yeah, I have some acne scarring. It's nice to think that people like Iannucci, Morris, Brydon etcetera have also suffered and gone on to be very successful. It adds a flash of mystery to Morris, it's quite cool, quite villainous.

I've heard some rumours that during his time at Stonyhurst his birthmark wasn't present, that said there's a lot in Disgusting Bliss which refutes that.


Also, HE'S OVER 50! Over 50 with not a single grey hair. Well done that man.

[Thomas]

Good in't 'e?



Cuts a distinctive silhouette. Does a good smirk, too. I hope he does more film bits so we end up with an action figure.

[tylereddyallen]

Imagine returning home to find Chris, smoking a fat cigar, in bed with your mother. Then imagine him giving her a jolly slap on the behind as she scampers off to make him a bacon butty.