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Chris Addison
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Chris Addison was born Anatole Gorzjic in a sideshow tent during the middle of a four week run of the Cirque du Zinfandel at Dubrovnik Municipal Rec. His father was the bearded man and his mother was an itinerant teeth-grinder. Much of his early life was spent following the circus from town to town, learning the skills of the big top and occasionally standing in as a tent peg when needed. These experiences proved formative and the influence can still be seen on Addison's act - his unconventional use of elephants, for example, which has challenged the stuctural integrity of a number of pub-based comedy clubs.
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If there was an Edinburgh comedy GCSE, then Chris Addison would be a set text. His shows over the past three years have embodied all the above-mentioned qualities to the highest standard, and it is extraordinary that he has not yet had the recognition he deserves in terms of awards, though his popularity with audiences continues to grow.
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At one of his favourite Melbourne spots, the Hairy Canary, comedian Chris Addison speaks to Lawrence about being a 'Pom' in the comedy world. Chris Addison drops into the Hairy Canary on most trips to Melbourne, for its great food and killer cocktails. Chris Addison held his first solo show in the 1998 Edinburgh Comedy Festival. He caught Australian comedy fans' attention when he was nominated for the prestigious Barry Humphries Award in 2002 for Port Out, Starboard Home at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. In the same year, Chris produced another sell-out solo show The Ape That Got Lucky for the Edinburgh Comedy Festival and was consequently invited to tour on the 2004 Melbourne International Comedy Festival road show.
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Chris Addison has been working with development organisations on their internet services since 1993. He moved into computer networking from entomology following his work building a computerised flight simulator for moths as part of a PhD thesis at Imperial College, London. His interest in computer networking and development led him to join the Natural Resources Institute in the UK, where in addition to running the network at NRI he worked in Zimbabwe and Malawi, developing networks and database systems. He subsequently set up a consultancy business in Ireland and worked in West Africa, the Caribean, the US and Brazil. He joined the ECDPM in the Netherlands in 1997 and then became director of Oneworld Europe. He is now based in Brussels and is currently an associate with Europe’s forum for International Cooperation (Euforic).
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Addison was supported in this spoof lecture by Professor Austin Herring, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at St Dunstan's College Cambridge, who was played by Geoffrey McGivern. The Professor was frequently ridiculed, and was usually introduced as the author of a particular book. The books were always amusingly titled, and were different in every introduction. Other cast members of the show were Jo Enright and
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In what must be one of the strangest gigs he has played, Chris Addison made a welcome return to his home town. For a late Friday night show in central Machester, the crowd is boisterous and enthusiastic. However, it is not filled with the Friday night drunkards you would expect, but instead packed full of middle class twenty and thirty somethings.
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