Jamie Neil

About me:

For some time now Jamie has earned a living writing biographies in the third person. He is paid large sums of money for this service by a rather amusing chap called Jamie Neil. This Jamie Neil has had rather a chequered past in career terms...workwise he has been: an insurance clerk; on the counter at Sheringham Post Office; doing some rather secret stuff for the Royal Navy (which he can't write about for another seven years or they'll shoot him!); and perhaps most depressingly, he worked throughout a whole summer making charcoal briquettes...he still isn't quite clean.

In terms of his comedy career, (which is only slightly more hygenic than working with charcoal!) he has stood up comedically, he has sketched repeatedly, and written frustratedly. Most of this has happened in and around London although he does sometimes work elsewhere. Who could forget his triumphal national tour in the production Why Me?, where, as Assistant Stage Manager and Male Stand-In, he saw the backstage area of many of the UKs most prestigious theatres without once stepping out before a paying audience. Tim Brooke-Taylor once said to him "Who are you?"

He is also a trained actor, meaning he foolishly got himself into serious debt learning twenty five inventive ways to answer the question "So what have you been in?"

He has also 'done' Shakespeare outdoors (which is not a euphemism for anything dodgy, it simply means he has shouted rather loudly and in terms barely discernible as English at people coughing and belching their way through a picnic in variable weather conditions...which is not unlike being a tramp really). He wishes to apologise to anyone who actually likes The Bard, not only for his mauling of the scripts, but also because he thinks that Shakespeare is an arse, and is responsible for more pain and anguish in teenagers than acne, braces and embarrassing erections all rolled into one!

In spite of this, Jamie wishes it to be known that he is available for any offers of work, be they open-air, or indeed on a film set with his own trailer. He describes himself as not fussy...critics have described him as not very good.

(He IS fussy about who wants to be his friends on My Space however, as there was some unfortunate nastiness a couple of years ago between himself and a man from Canada...please be nice to Jamie, and never ask him what underwear he is wearing, as this tends to make him soil his pants Thank You)