Panel shows are like comedy Marmite: you either hate them or you will gladly spread them over toast and eat a whole jar for breakfast. Instead I’m going to talk about panel shows. No, those things won’t be the focus here. Fellow comedian Frankie Boyle once introduced Jupp by saying, “He’s a comedian who’s been on kids’ TV, sings in a choir, and looks like that - the fact that he’s not a child molester once lost me a hundred quid.” He’s not the only one to play with those assumptions. I don’t think that’s particularly arrogant. I haven’t actually, but I do like to think that if push came to shove, I would probably be able to. I don’t know if they assume I’ve had to learn to enunciate clearly with a mouth full of cocks. Life is not made any easier by the fact that most people you meet already assume you’re a bit of a cunt …Ī lot of people hear the way I speak and assume I must be a homosexual. That is not logically the case, let me assure you. If you have a posh accent, a lot of people assume that you must have an easy life. If you speak the way I do - you know, properly - people do make certain judgments about you. ![]() He does have that air about him, in both his demeanour and voice, and it plays a key role in a lot of his routines: And I won’t dwell excessively on his poshness, which seems to go hand-in-hand with his stand-up comedy. Nor will I focus on his stand-up, where he started out and for which he won the So You Think You’re Funny? Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year in 2001 and received a Perrier Award Best Newcomer nomination in 2003. Jupp also wrote the entertaining Fibber in the Heat, a book about his experience sneaking into the press corps for the English cricket team’s 2006 Test series in India.īut I’m not going to be talking about that, either. The smart verbal back and forth between Jupp’s Trench and his partner (Justin Edwards) and handyman (Brendan Dempsey) was where the real comedy took place. The comedy was both gentle and sharp, and although the television version of the show was not quite as successful, this was frankly due to the fact that the writing was the show’s strength - we didn’t actually need to see them on the screen. He created, wrote, and starred in the radio show In and Out of the Kitchen, a series about the various work and personal kerfuffles that besieged the life of cookery writer Damien Trench. His writing is also a subject that could be worth mentioning. ![]() However, this article won’t be about Jupp’s acting. In 2014, he was in Neville’s Island, and last year he received good reviews for Rules for Living. ![]() He’s had a few small roles in films such as Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Jon Stewart’s Rosewater, and he’s appeared on the stage as well, don’t you know. The interactions between him and star Tom Hollander were tight and well-played, leading to either fits of laughter or tears of sadness (or anger). ![]() His strongest performance, though, was as the repressed lay reader Nigel in Rev. In Series 3 of The Thick of It, he was annoyingly good as the annoyingly incompetent John Duggan he also had parts in Spy and Gary: Tank Commander. Yes, you may remember him as Archie the Inventor in the children’s TV show Balamory, but he’s gone on to play solid supporting roles in many shows and films. There’s a lot that could be said for Miles Jupp’s talents.įor example, he’s a good actor.
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