Dylan Moran
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Irish comedian Dylan Moran was born in Navan, County Meath in 1971.
Leaving school without any qualifications at age 16, Moran quickly
became attracted to stand-up comedy and debuted, in 1992, at a comedy
club in Dublin, The Comedy Cellar. A year later, he won the Channel
Four comedy newcomer's "So You Think You're Funny" award at the
Edinburgh Festival, and began developing his comedy routines into a
one-man show, "Gurgling for Money", for which he won the prestigious
Perrier Comedy Award in 1996, and which he subsequently took to a
nationwide tour of the UK. His exposure at the Edinburgh Festival also
led to him getting programmed at international stand-up comedy
festivals, worldwide.Subsequently, Moran took to writing and performing for British
television. He has starred in the BBC sitcom,
How Do You Want Me? (1998),
and - more importantly - in 2000, he was commissioned by Channel Four
for the sitcom,
Black Books (2000). He wrote and
starred in three 6-episode series of this comedy. Co-starring popular
British stand-up comedian
Bill Bailey, who was nominated for
the Perrier Award the year Moran won,
Black Books (2000) sees Moran
play a character close to his stand-up comedy persona: an unsociable
misanthrope, reminiscent of the John Cleese
sitcom character, "Basil Fawlty", that shares a great love of wine with
one of razor-sharp put-downs of all things human. Also, his character
Bernard Black's often surreal views on everyday things and on human
behavior is close to his stand-up persona's dealing with them.The same year the first series of "Black Books" aired, Moran took his
one-man show, "Ready, Steady, Cough", on a UK tour, followed two years
later by
Dylan Moran: Monster (2004).
This was followed by Monster II in 2004.In the late
1990's, Moran also moved from doing stand-up to working on a film acting CV. He played opposite Julia Roberts
and Hugh Grant in
Notting Hill (1999), co-starred with
Michael Caine in
The Actors (2003) and had parts in the
Simon Pegg comedy,
Shaun of the Dead (2004) and
the Michael Winterbottom film,
Tristram Shandy (2005).Moran's live stand-up comedy is unique in that it merges two strands of
stand-up that seemed incompatible for a long time: sharp observational
humor, and surreal and fantastical language-based absurdity. On the one
hand, he has a clear influence from what could be called an American
school of stand-up comedy that is heavily observational. On the other
hand, Moran's comedy is characterized by a use of language similar to
the stand-up comedy of Eddie Izzard and
Ross Noble: surreal associative leaps between
on the one side observations and on the other fantasies, verbally
painting bizarre and absurd worlds, often through a use of
stream-of-consciousness narration. His language is often highly poetic,
resembling a James Joyce that has
had one too many.Moran is very reluctant to give interviews on his personal life and
even on his career, a fact parodied in a staged interview inter-cut
with the recording of his live stand-up show, "Monster", on its DVD
release.
Leaving school without any qualifications at age 16, Moran quickly
became attracted to stand-up comedy and debuted, in 1992, at a comedy
club in Dublin, The Comedy Cellar. A year later, he won the Channel
Four comedy newcomer's "So You Think You're Funny" award at the
Edinburgh Festival, and began developing his comedy routines into a
one-man show, "Gurgling for Money", for which he won the prestigious
Perrier Comedy Award in 1996, and which he subsequently took to a
nationwide tour of the UK. His exposure at the Edinburgh Festival also
led to him getting programmed at international stand-up comedy
festivals, worldwide.Subsequently, Moran took to writing and performing for British
television. He has starred in the BBC sitcom,
How Do You Want Me? (1998),
and - more importantly - in 2000, he was commissioned by Channel Four
for the sitcom,
Black Books (2000). He wrote and
starred in three 6-episode series of this comedy. Co-starring popular
British stand-up comedian
Bill Bailey, who was nominated for
the Perrier Award the year Moran won,
Black Books (2000) sees Moran
play a character close to his stand-up comedy persona: an unsociable
misanthrope, reminiscent of the John Cleese
sitcom character, "Basil Fawlty", that shares a great love of wine with
one of razor-sharp put-downs of all things human. Also, his character
Bernard Black's often surreal views on everyday things and on human
behavior is close to his stand-up persona's dealing with them.The same year the first series of "Black Books" aired, Moran took his
one-man show, "Ready, Steady, Cough", on a UK tour, followed two years
later by
Dylan Moran: Monster (2004).
This was followed by Monster II in 2004.In the late
1990's, Moran also moved from doing stand-up to working on a film acting CV. He played opposite Julia Roberts
and Hugh Grant in
Notting Hill (1999), co-starred with
Michael Caine in
The Actors (2003) and had parts in the
Simon Pegg comedy,
Shaun of the Dead (2004) and
the Michael Winterbottom film,
Tristram Shandy (2005).Moran's live stand-up comedy is unique in that it merges two strands of
stand-up that seemed incompatible for a long time: sharp observational
humor, and surreal and fantastical language-based absurdity. On the one
hand, he has a clear influence from what could be called an American
school of stand-up comedy that is heavily observational. On the other
hand, Moran's comedy is characterized by a use of language similar to
the stand-up comedy of Eddie Izzard and
Ross Noble: surreal associative leaps between
on the one side observations and on the other fantasies, verbally
painting bizarre and absurd worlds, often through a use of
stream-of-consciousness narration. His language is often highly poetic,
resembling a James Joyce that has
had one too many.Moran is very reluctant to give interviews on his personal life and
even on his career, a fact parodied in a staged interview inter-cut
with the recording of his live stand-up show, "Monster", on its DVD
release.
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