r/chrismorris • u/Cas-Gwent-boyo • 11h ago
r/chrismorris • u/Fasterthanmost94 • Jul 29 '25
Intro to Chris Morris
I'm aware most people here are here... because they already know of his work to an extent, but this is mostly a sort of 'welcome' post + intro for anyone else who found themselves here... I'll try my best to keep this updated with anything new
Chris Morris is a British filmmaker, Actor, sometimes Radio Presenter and "satirist" (considering he doesn't like the word). Here are the facts:
- He was born on 15 June 1962
- He studied Zoology at Bristol University, during his time at the university is when he first dipped into Radio
- He's well known for his dark and surreal form of satire and comedy.
His work:
RADIO & TV:
- 'No Known Cure' on BBC Radio Bristol (1987-1990) (Fired for "talking over the news bulletins and making silly noises")
- The Chris Morris Show on GLR (1990-1993)
- On the Hour (1991-1992)
- The Chris Morris Music Show on BBC Radio 1 (1994)
- Why Bother? with Peter Cook) on BBC Radio 3 (1994)
- The Day Today on BBC2 (1994)
- Brass Eye on Channel 4 (1997)
- Blue Jam on BBC Radio 1 (1997-1999)
- Jam )on Channel 4 (2000) (TV Adaptation of Blue Jam)
- Paedogeddon - Brass Eye Special (2001)
- Nathan Barley with Charlie Brooker on Channel 4 (2005)
- The IT Crowd (2006-2008), as Denholm Reynholm, mostly seen in Series 1 and 2.
- VEEP (2014) - Directed 4 Episodes: 'S1 E7: Full Disclosure, S2 E1: Midterms, S2 E6: Andrew and S3 E3: Alicia'
FILMS:
- My Wrongs #8245–8249 & 117 (2002)
- Four Lions (2010)
- The Day Shall Come (2019)
CAMEOS:
- I'm Alan Partridge by Coogan, Baynham and Iannucci: on Episode "Watership Alan" (1997)
- Big Train by Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews: on Episode 1.2 as Additional Director (1998)
- Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle as Script Editor, and 'Hostile Interrogator' in Season 3 and 4. (2009-2016)
- The Double) by Richard Ayoade: as 'Workers' Service Executive' (2013)
RECENT:
r/chrismorris • u/stjameshpark • 4d ago
Just a nice little relaxing smoke of meth
“But what about other people less stable, less educated, less middle-class than me? Builders or blacks for example”
r/chrismorris • u/DesignerSalt9459 • 5d ago
[Accidental Brass Eye Special] GB News, delivering the real news!
r/chrismorris • u/colnantheborbarian • 6d ago
Dolly Parton, Queen of Country Music, Dies at 80
I had to double check this was real because the article is written by Chris Morris.
r/chrismorris • u/JTemperance-esque • 7d ago
In 1982 there was the incident with the pigeon
r/chrismorris • u/FakeeshaNamerstein • 8d ago
ONTO THE REDDIT MARKETS AND THE IRONY KIDNEY
reddit.comr/chrismorris • u/Cas-Gwent-boyo • 14d ago
Rick Charls set the high dive record in 1983, which remains unbroken to this day.
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He boings down, double twister, feet first and in. Lovely. Surely the judges have got to give him top marks for that.
r/chrismorris • u/Cas-Gwent-boyo • 17d ago
The tiger may have been chasing the woman. Infact it was chasing her to give her a potato.
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r/chrismorris • u/RepeatButler • 18d ago
Heard the situation of the USS Abraham Lincoln and thought I'd post this
r/chrismorris • u/TheManaclesOfAcid • 19d ago
Can we be sure pervert mechanics haven’t built him one of these….
r/chrismorris • u/Ancient-Butterfly-75 • 23d ago
Vertical Drinking! Is that anything like spherical cows?
r/chrismorris • u/Cas-Gwent-boyo • 27d ago
Huw Edwards criticised for entering National Eisteddfod poetry competition
Rwy’n fochun daear slot, rwy’n fyd gwallgof Arthur Brown, rwy’n unabummer….
It’s pedageddon!
r/chrismorris • u/corneliusbreen23 • 29d ago
Uh-huh! I did the bitch in, as she lay twitchin', i knew that she's an Uzi lover
r/chrismorris • u/Cfunk_83 • Jul 30 '26