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Simon Munnery

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33: 339: 354:, included the opportunity for the audience to raise questions to discuss as group (such as "is there a God?"). The experience would often continue after the main show, when he takes the audience on tours around town, taking in art galleries, drinks and visits to other shows. 723:, co-written and directed by Philip Bacon, a student of the National Film and Television School. In the nine-minute film, Munnery appears in a bird costume and contemplates a cliff. He is credited as "Bird". 1128: 146:", he did various menial jobs before making his big break into comedy. He has described praise of his work as implying his work occupies a place between "unfunny comedy" and "shit art". 892: 774: 999: 800: 741:
curated a retrospective of the artwork of Munnery, titled 'What Am I?' It was first shown at Ex-Baldessarre, Bedford, and then toured to Stroud Valley Art Space.
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series called "Where Did It All Go Wrong?", which were broadcast in the summer of 2003 and the spring of 2005.
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Munnery was brought to the attention of a comedy community as the compere of a post-alternative comedy
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Munnery had a short-lived career as a video game programmer. His most famous title was a version of
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from 1999. There were 13 15-minute episodes. As well as Simon Munnery, it included
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In 2009, Munnery starred in an award-winning animated rotoscope short, titled
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once described as a "pile of wank"). He also authored several games for the
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character. Others were vehicles for his Alan Parker character, including
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While at university, Munnery took part in a stand-up double-act called
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in 1996, but was never broadcast. It became the subject of a book by
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performed originally in London and later at the Edinburgh Festival.
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In 2007, Simon appeared as Alan Parker on a music track by
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Munnery has returned to radio in the early 2000s, hosting
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recorded live at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2003, and
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Munnery also appeared in sketches in the first series of
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called "Grey Clouds", a take off of their earlier track
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Two DVDs of his work were released in 2007 – the first
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Munnery wrote and hosted the 1999 TV comedy game show,
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In 2017, Munnery was interviewed by fellow comedian
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Index


The Stand, Edinburgh
Middlesex
Genres
Alternative comedy
surreal comedy
Bedmond
Watford Grammar School for Boys
A Levels
natural sciences
Trinity College, Cambridge
Footlights
Peter Bradshaw
third
Asteroids
Commodore International
VIC-20
Jeff Minter
ZX81
Breakout
Space Invaders
ZX Spectrum
Cosmiads
Scramble
Stephen Cheeke
Steve Coogan
Patrick Marber
Richard Herring
Stewart Lee
Edinburgh Festival

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