Harris
"More irritating than amusing - a commenter on Virgin Media Shorts"

Male
36 years old
Saltburn,
United Kingdom



Last Login: 7/3/2008
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    Harris's Interests
General Zod.
Music




also: flaming lips, mogwai, tunng, godspeed you black emperor, super furry animals, grizzly bear, charlotte hatherley, eels, sumbarine, modest mouse, madness, the barracudas, loney dear, the jamming arabs, field music, the audioslave oompah tribute band, kenickie, apples in stereo, mercury rev, pink floyd, all saints, papa m, annuals, hylozoists, the go! team, syd barrett, grandaddy, thee more shallows, tv on the radio, the polyphonic spree, blackalicious, guillemots, kanele, philip glass, yo la tengo, beta band, blur, tilly and the wall, j xaverre, calexico, jim o'rourke and at least four others...
Movies local hero, the big lebowski, tale of two sisters, mystery men, jaws, raising arizona, badlands, memories of murder, the ordeal, raiders of the lost ark, the host, anchorman, delicatessen, taxi driver, repo man, life of brian, spirited away, visitor q, blade runner and punch drunk love and so on.
Television the comic strip presents, deadwood, fifteen stories high, oz, arrested development, help, justice league unlimited, edge of darkness, monty python, lost, samurai jack, the young ones, tim and eric awesome show great job, battlestar galactica, noggin the nog, heroes, mr show, father ted, gbh, 24, the day today, buffy and angel, venture bros, big train, human remains, wonder showzen
Books raymond chandler, jim thompson, haruki murakami, james ellroy, chris ware, jeff noon, grant morrison, martin millar, tim o'brien, philip k dick, george saunders, alexei sayle, alan moore, kurt vonnegut, iain banks, charlie higson, alfred bester, philip pullman, kyle baker, christopher priest, peter ayckroyd, roger hargreaves, donald barthelme, bill watterson...
Heroeskurt vonnegut, wayne coyne, chief brody and batman.
Groups: We Hate Paul WS Anderson (Northern Filmmakers UK)The Northern 48 Hour Film Challenge*popcorn not includedbigscreennewcastleSouth Yorkshire Filmmakers NetworkTengallon TV4Laughs - Comedy Development

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     Harris's Details
Status:Married
Hometown:Saltburn-by-the-Sea
Religion:Atheist
Zodiac Sign:Cancer
Smoke / Drink:No / Yes
Occupation:filmmaker / actor / comedian

   Harris's Schools
Prior Pursglove College
Guisborough, United Kingdom
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
 

1987 to 1989
Huntcliff School
Saltburn-by-the-Sea, United Kingdom
Graduated: 1987
Student status: Alumni
 

1982 to 1987



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   Harris's Blurbs
About me:

Aloha! I'm James. I'm about 6 foot tall, own four pairs of shoes in various colours and I am sometimes a bit irritating. I'm a comedy writer, film maker and performer. In the last year I've written for Comedy Shuffle, Spacehopper (winner "Best Comedy" at the RTS awards), FAO3, Parsons and Naylor's Pull Out Sections and Mustard magazine.

Myself and Mr Lee Henman have a sketch show "in development" with BBC Scotland, which means... actually, don't really know what that means but boy it sure sounds like it should mean something doesn't it?

I make short comedies and cartoons for Shameless Films. Our films have been shown on the BBC, ITV, MTV2, Dave, HypTV, Propeller TV and at film festivals world-wide. You can see lots of them here: Shameless Films.

shameless films

I've recently started going out and about doing stand up and sketches, and showing films.

I won The Frog and Bucket's Beat the Frog on 21/05/07. I were chuffed.

"James Harris made his LLC debut, and only his second gig ever. But it was a brilliant 5 minutes of great material, and left us wanting more." - Long Live Comedy

This random sketch show is performed by two very funny and quite charming men. Their sketches are quite unique; the pair perform well together, and they work hard to push the boundaries just beyond good taste. - Three Weeks Daily, Edinburgh

Please come and say hello:

NO DATES ON THE HORIZON. HARRIS IS LAZY.

But look, here's some films and cartoons:


Moon Shot UK

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My Brother & I

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COLIN BABYHEAD EXPLAINS
His head is so small!

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Who I'd like to meet:

I'd like to meet Diana Rigg 40 years ago and Father Christmas. And anyone making short films or beautiful music or comedy. And YOU. I want to meet you, too. You're funny and you make good stuff.



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Harris has 391 friends.
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Dave





Apr 18 2008 9:37 AM

Hallo Matey,
Just to let you know I'm still kicking around about to head up Edinburgh for some star wars fan films (Lets Hope that bit of acting know how comes in useful)

Dave
Dean





Apr 18 2008 7:04 AM

hi james

hope your ok will tune in on monday what are you on to talk about?

Dean
AJ





Apr 15 2008 3:19 PM

Eh, up.
I like that moon film what you made. Can you imagine a British Capricorn One, it would be like Crossroads.
Dan and Okse





Apr 15 2008 1:15 PM

Thanks muchly for the add. Keep it up, whatever "it" is. As long as it's not hurting anyone, that's fine by us

Thanks again

D&O

http://danandokse.podbean.com
NunoXEI





Mar 23 2008 8:05 AM

I just relaunched The Lowdown on Webtertainment.tv. The podcast brings you an assortment of information based on many different topics. If you love to surf the web for random information, then let The Lowdown start you off in the right direction! Topics range from artist and podcast interviews, reviews of travel locations, and occasional screencasts demonstrating social web applications!

I'm looking to get the word out on the relaunch and even find possible topics to cover in a future Lowdown. If you have suggestions, please contact me!
Dean





Mar 1 2008 1:35 PM

Hey James

Glad your well. I'm not doing to bad plugging away at uni really. Ive not been doing much stand up recently just going to see a fair bit of it. Saw Jim Jeffries at the Arc last night and he was absoloutely awesome. Some cracking stories and deals with hecklers really well.

Have you been getting gigs under your belt?
Dean





Feb 27 2008 6:55 AM

Hi James

Hows it going

Dean
That Laura Girl





Feb 27 2008 5:25 AM

Ello stranger!
Hows things going?
Well I hope.
x
Adam Tempest





Jan 10 2008 5:46 AM

Ahoy, hope you had a good christmas and new year, how's things? Ready for the jaunt up to Edinburgh? It's the 28th remember!
Dean





Dec 26 2007 4:58 AM

Hi James

Hope you had a good Xmas

Dean
TigerTigerTiger!





Dec 25 2007 10:29 AM

hahahah, it sure is, i just bought phillip marlowe's favourite drink, a bottle of it, and am planning on drinking it heroically tonight!:)
x
TigerTigerTiger!





Dec 24 2007 1:27 PM

I'm coming back the 30th. Fuck the croissants( like in some french edition of American Pie), get the lager in...
Goodnight! I shall wake up to a better world, I know. Hope you do too!
x
TigerTigerTiger!





Dec 24 2007 12:30 PM

Oh yes, I have definitely eaten too much and catching up on drinking now! :) my nana was in a bad mood so we had a bit of a interruption in the festive celebrations in order to drive her back home but hey! it's good stuff for a short film :)
How's Bristol?
x
TigerTigerTiger!





Dec 24 2007 11:58 AM

Merry Christmaaaaaas!!!!!! I'm in Bulgaria,it's oh so cold!!!!x
Chris





Dec 24 2007 3:54 AM

Happy Christmas James.. all the best!
Charlotte





Dec 24 2007 1:23 AM

Hey there!!! Just dropping by to say Happy Christmas and all that! Probably see ya down the beach getting away from Turkey and family and stuff!!! Either that or in the pub hey! Hope ya have a good one boyo!!

C

x
Dead Pheasant





Dec 20 2007 2:23 AM

Thank you. We like your Dartz! video. Did you make a Dartz! video? Dunno, we like Dartz!. We definitely like the fact that you have four pairs of shoes, all different. And the man with a little head
TigerTigerTiger!





Dec 19 2007 4:30 AM

oi oi! I really enjoy reading that book. after a long and painful hiatus I am back on the cult sci-fi track. I came upon it through William Gibson saying it´s his favourite book and William Gibson is my favourite sci-fi scribbler so A equals B and B equals C, so A equals C. :)
I didn´t know Bester wrote short stories. There is definitely something very stripped down about his writing, seems basic but I guess he jus doesnt bother with bullshit. And as per usual with all sci-fi it is delightfully philosophical...:)
How are you, James? x
Adam Tempest





Dec 7 2007 4:45 AM

Hi mate,

Enjoyed the new films, very good. Well done for managing to get a good children's play area location too! See you around, might have a gig sorted for you, will get in touch if anything becomes more concrete.
Dean





Nov 28 2007 10:42 AM

Hey James

Hows it going Ive not sent you a comment in a while did you manage to get any filming done with a see saw
gourna films





Oct 18 2007 1:46 PM

Thanks for the add!

I've posted the link to your film on my blog at gournafilms.wordpress.com, hope you get a few more votes that way!

Keep the faith,
Peter
Andrew Augustine





Oct 17 2007 3:32 PM

Ehhhy guys whats up!
Dean





Oct 15 2007 11:46 AM

James

Brendon Burns was ace last night he now has a red bull habbit! I thought he was thought provoking and pressed all the right buttons for me some of the things he said could have been taken the wrong way.

He mentioned the people at saltburn who thought he was racist and said when he hammered the point home to them they found it funny. His stuff about spunk and seagals has had me giggling all day and he mentioned that the old couples in saltburn were nudging each other when he said that

I met him breifly after the gig he passed me to go to the toliet. I shook his hand and told him to keep using the word spastic because it didn't offend me.

Some of his stuff about Jounglers was really good to and comedy crowds in Liverpool was funny.

A really good act

Off to see Ivan Brackenberry tomorrow at the uni so that should be good!

Brendon also said the dressing room in saltburn was better than the coubard in Darlington

Sorry for the lack of punctuation

Just wanted to write down my thoughts

Dean
Dean





Oct 14 2007 6:28 AM

Hi James

Nice one carn't wait for it!

Think I'm going to see Ivan Brackenburry at the students union as well.

Sean Lock is also coming up on thursday Full week of comedy this week just how I like it!

going to write some stuff this week and i'll try it out at LLC

take care mate

Dean
Dean





Oct 9 2007 6:27 AM

Hey James

Ive got myself on the bill for LLC

6th of November 2007!

I'm looking forward to it quite nervous and its a month away

Going to try out 2 possibly 3 new jokes that Ive had ideas on for a while!

How are you are you looking forward to Brendon Burns!!??
The Fix


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Oct 4 2007 7:09 AM

Click this image to read the magazine online. Alternatively you can pick up a copy for free at all good comedy clubs in the UK.
Nic





Oct 4 2007 3:42 AM

Hello Hawaii!
Did you purchase a ukelele then?
Alicia





Sep 28 2007 2:34 PM

How good is Patrick Wolfe! I'm gutted I can't go see him at MIMA i'm in London that weekend. Not with Terry at mo, he said he wanted me for panto but I think i'm gonna say no, I'm gonna do my degree next year so think i'd better get a proper job for a little while! I'm gonna try to come to one of your gigs soon, I promise x
Alicia





Sep 25 2007 10:43 AM

Hi Love its only me, Hope all is well, How did Edinburgh go? Just wondered if you are doing Panto this year? Xx