Simon Amstell
Writer

Simon Amstell Net Worth

Simon Amstell is a British writer, actor, and director who was born in Essex, England in 1979. He made his first television appearance in 1993 on the game show GamesMaster, and went on to appear on Good Morning with Anne and Nick and Family Catchphrase. Amstell started performing on the comedy circuit at the age of 13 and was a finalist of the BBC New Comedy Awards in 1998. He then became a presenter on Nickelodeon and co-hosted Popworld, where he stirred controversy with his unique style of interviewing. Amstell eventually became the second host of the comedic panel show Never Mind the Buzzcocks, replacing Mark Lamarr.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Writer, Actor, Director
Birth Day November 29, 1979
Birth Place  Essex, England, United Kingdom
Age 44 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign Sagittarius
Occupation Stand-up comedian, television presenter, script writer, director, actor
Years active 1993–present
Website www.simonamstell.co.uk

💰 Net worth: $100K - $1M

Famous Quotes:

"He started his TV career at Nickelodeon where he was fired for making pop stars uncomfortable. He then began presenting the Channel 4 show, Popworld – where he gained a huge following for his groundbreaking work in making pop stars uncomfortable."

Biography/Timeline

1979

Amstell was born in Gants Hill, Redbridge, east London in 1979, to David and Tina (née Leventhal) Amstell. He was brought up in a Jewish family, and he was the eldest of four children. He was educated at Beal High School, a state comprehensive school in Ilford. His parents' divorce in the early 1990s has been a constant theme throughout his stand-up career, and he says that their decision when he was born to circumcise him had caused him a sense of great emotional as well as physical loss.

1993

Amstell's first television appearance was in 1993 when he appeared as a contestant on the Channel 4 game show GamesMaster. In 1994 he appeared on Good Morning with Anne and Nick performing an impression of Dame Edna Everage. Also that year, he appeared in an episode of Family Catchphrase, describing himself as a budding Magician and showing one of his tricks to the show's presenter Andrew O'Connor, himself a Magician. Amstell and his family won a television and a video recorder.

1995

In 1995, Amstell created Radio XL at his secondary school Beal High School which is still a big part of Beal tradition today

1998

Amstell started performing on the comedy circuit when he was in his early teens and later became the youngest finalist to appear in the BBC New Comedy Awards. His first professional television appearance was in 1998 as a presenter on the UK children's channel Nickelodeon. He claims he was sacked for being "sarcastic and mean to children" although the posted biography on his website also, in jest, claims:

2000

From 2000 to 2006, Amstell presented Popworld on Channel 4 with Miquita Oliver. He voiced the characters "Timothy the Popworld melon" and "Richard the Popworld horse" and developed a highly ironic, surreal and left-field style which gained the show a cult following but angered many of its guests. One Example was a mock interview with singer Lemar called "Lemar From Afar" in which Amstell shouted questions into a megaphone from one end of the world's largest car park while Lemar stood at the other end. Another was a "Si-chiatrist" interview with Luke Pritchard and Hugh Harris of The Kooks in which Amstell played the role of Psychiatrist and Pritchard and Harris his patients.

2003

Amstell first appeared on the comedy show Never Mind the Buzzcocks as a guest during Mark Lamarr's tenure as host, in 2003 and 2006. Following Lamarr's departure, he was one of the series' guest hosts before being appointed as permanent host beginning in October 2006. He said at the time that he hoped to beat "the universal, exceptionless rule that when a new host takes over an old show it is a horrible, embarrassing disaster".

2005

Amstell also performs as a stand-up Comedian. He has performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009. In 2008, Amstell completed his first UK tour. He appeared at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal in July 2009. His entire run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2009 at the Bongo Club sold out. He took part in his second national tour in the autumn of 2009.

2007

Amstell co-wrote an episode of Channel 4 teenage drama Skins in 2007, titled "Maxxie and Anwar".

2009

Amstell performed Do Nothing in 2009 at the Royal Court Theatre, raising money for their young Writers programme.

2010

In May 2010, Amstell recorded Do Nothing in Dublin's Vicar Street venue for a November DVD release. In December 2011 and April 2012, it was shown on BBC3 and the BBC iPlayer.

2011

In 2011, Amstell appeared in the independent film Black Pond.

2012

On New Year's Eve 2012, a one-off stand-up special performance of Simon Amstell's stand-up show, 'Numb', which he toured to sell-out audiences in 2012, was recorded for the BBC at TV Centre.

2014

In 2014 Simon Amstell announced a new tour of UK and North America, titled 'TO BE FREE'.

2015

In 2015, he provided voice work for the video game Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist, for which he received critical praise.

2016

In 2016, Amstell hosted the Evening Standard British Film Awards.

2017

In 2017 Amstell announced his third stand-up UK tour, titled 'What Is This?'. It began in London on the 22nd September 2017.

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