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Simon Amstell
Simon Amstell is a fantastic stand up and is great for award ceremonies if you want to add a bit of cheek to your event. He became a household name as the presenter of POPWORLD - Channel 4’s weekly pop programme and took over as the regular host for NEVER MIND THE BUZZCOCKS for BBC2. In his youth, Amstell was the youngest finalist of the BBC NEW COMEDY AWARDS.
Amstell's Rise to Fame
It didn't take long for Nickelodeon to see his potential. Then came POPWORLD which Simon co-hosted with Miquita Oliver until March 2007.
Simon performs regularly on the stand-up circuit and hosted his own sell-out show at the Pleasance during 2005's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He returned to Edinburgh in 2006 with his first pure stand-up show resulting in rave reviews and sell out shows..
He regularly appears on Xfm, standing in for Adam and Joe on Saturday afternoons, and in 2005, he co-hosted an Xfm show with Lauren Laverne. In 2005 he hosted Channel 4's coverage of the Wireless Festival, and in 2004, co-hosted coverage of the V Festival.
'Subversive anti-hype...clever waspish stand-up.'
Evening Standard
'a distracted 'mad professor' demeanor, masking a dry free-wheeling wit'
The Observer
‘best young presenter on TV, Simon Amstell, who not only has a scarily encyclopaedic knowledge of music for one so young, but he’s also a one-man advert for geek chic.’
Heat Magazine
‘…Simon Amstell is at once the David Dimbleby, Howard Stern and Johnny Rotten for a generation of chart-smart pre-pubescents…’
The Times
'…Simon off Popworld is the mightiest of them all!’
Popjustice.com
'...Simon is so enjoyable (on Xfm)that we've almost forgotten all about Ricky Gervais...'
Heat Magazine
