Jamie Neil
Sketch Comedy / As Seen on TV / Stand-Up
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Male
40 years old
London
United Kingdom
Last Login: 1/26/2009
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Jamie Neil's Comedian Bio
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| Bio | He writes funny, He talks funny, He looks funny...trying to do it all on stage is the killer.
He is a sketch writer/performer, who has also made a few forays onto the stand-up circuit in London.
He is also an actor, although in waiting for Spielberg to call for so long, he hasn’t been to as many auditions as he should have...Jamie says the theatre is mostly fantastic but it pays shit, film and television is mostly shit but it pays fantastic...it’s a cruel world.
He is a ’youthful’ 38 years old, with time served in the Royal Navy in his younger days - Jamie was 21 when he first killed a man...it was harrowing...he wishes he had never been smoking near that fuel dump.
| | Website | Under Construction | | Influences | Ronnie Barker - a God
Steve Martin - a God
Peter Griffin (Family Guy) - a 'God I wish I'd written that!' | | TV Shows | He was in the Sitcom Trials on ITV1West...on so late at night, that only insomniacs and burglars watched it...interestingly, Jamie was very popular with everyone on C-Wing when he was recently imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit...he also didn't sleep much either | | Films | Other than short, low/no budget films, he is still awaiting 'the call'...but he is in the process of making his own film...however, he has complained that it is difficult getting the time to shoot it, as they keep having him thrown out of the ladies locker room in the local gym...Phillistines! | | Albums | He has recently completed his Wedding album, having got married in September 2005, and is now on his "difficult second album", which is themed around his baby nephew. Digital cameras have helped and hindered these projects in equal measure. The first album deals with the loss of freedom, the second deals with hope. |
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Jamie Neil's Interests
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| General | Poker, Golf, Football (NOT american, which is a stupid game and is only of interest to americans and those who want to be american, the rest of the world loves the proper version), Film, Writing for children, and finally, his Wife! She is VERY interesting, not least because she has fallen for a flawed, opinionated person like him!
| | Music | This is where Jamie either looks like he's trying to keep up with what's 'happening' in the music industry, or he looks like a middle aged fart (you decide!)...so here goes (in no particular order):
Kasabian
Duran Duran
Kanye West
The Stranglers
Elvis Costello
Neil Young
The Rolling Stones
Outkast
Elvis Presley
The Kaiser Chiefs
Blur
The Black Eyed Peas
The Cure
OkGo (since seeing their fantastic videos...kinda like their sound too!)
| | Movies | Jamie says "I love the cinema...even the crap stuff! I think it's the whole 'going to the theatre' with its big screen, extortionate pop-corn and poor air-con that, despite the best efforts of the multiplexes, still manages to thrill. It's like being a kid again."
Movies that have excited him this year...
Superman (the return)
Pirates of the Caribbean
Little Miss Sunshine
Clerks II
Movies that have disappointed him this year...
X-Men III - The Last Stand
The Da Vinci Code
The Sentinel | | Television | Jamie 'Victor Meldrew' Neil holds forth on television:
"Is it me, or is TV crap? There are a couple of channels that are doing ok - comedy on BBC2 & BBC3, Channel 4 has its moments, but everything else needs you to text in...I DON'T WANT TO JOIN IN, I WANT TO BE ENTERTAINED!
God I sound old" | | Books | Best book Jamie has read recently (without pictures):
Captain Alatriste (the adventures of Captain Alatriste) by Arturo Perez Reverte...which I believe is being made into a film at the moment with Viggo Mortensen in the lead role...hmmm, interesting! | | Heroes | should never be met...not least because they slap restraining orders on you! |
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Jamie Neil's Details
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking | | Hometown: | London | | Body type: | Some extra baggage | | Religion: | Other | | Zodiac Sign: | Taurus | | Smoke / Drink: | No / Yes | | Children: | Someday | | Education: | College graduate | | Occupation: | Writer/Performer | | Income: | $250,000 and Higher |
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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)
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Who I'd like to meet:
anyone who can recognise genius...the sort of person who sees talent and wants to embrace it, and nurture it and pay it lots of money...Jamie wants to meet someone on an 'off day' who may believe he has that genius.
...alternatively, he'd be keen to meet someone who can teach him some cool magic tricks
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