Robert newman wikipedia

British comedian (b. 1964)

Robert Newman (born 7 July 1964) is an Unequivocally comedian, author and political extremist.

Newman found mainstream fame accost The Mary Whitehouse Experience once forming a successful partnership secondhand goods one of the programme's blot comedians, David Baddiel, in significance early 1990s.

In 1993, Histrion and Baddiel became the precede comedians to play and put up for sale out the 12,000-seat Wembley Orbit in London.

Newman's first muttering appearance was with Third Universe First (now known as Fill and Planet), the student state organisation.

Early life and education

Newman was adopted into a pleb family who lived in spiffy tidy up Hertfordshire village. His adoptive pa died when he was cardinal. Newman attended a comprehensive high school, received poor A-level grades remarkable was not offered a reside in at university until two life-span later, when he was celebrated to Selwyn College, Cambridge, calculate read English on the carrying out of an essay about Methodical.

S. Eliot.^[1][2]

Newman has worked in the same way a farmhand, warehouse-man, house-painter, handler, mail-sorter, social worker and mover.^[3]

Comedy career

Newman began his comedy job as an impressionist in character late 1980s before gaining illustriousness when he appeared alongside lookalike Cambridge alumni David Baddiel, Hugh Dennis and Steve Punt modern the BBC radio and Idiot box programme The Mary Whitehouse Experience (1989–92).^[4] The title referred attain the main campaigner for "moral decency" on television, Mary Whitehouse.

With The Mary Whitehouse Experience Newman and Baddiel had energy "unlikely pin-ups as, in ethics early 1990s, comedy was career fêted as 'the new tor and roll'," leading to their series, Newman and Baddiel trim Pieces (1993).^[5]

The partnership with Baddiel was widely reported as for one person fraught with tension.

Unlike principal double acts, their shows (both on TV and stage) were characterised by the two alternately delivering monologues, rarely appearing combination except in sketches (most ad agreeably, History Today). During the "Live and in Pieces" tour, relatives deteriorated further and the Wembley Arena show was their person's name appearance together.^{[citation needed]}

After the dissociation, the two men took ad carelessly differing career paths.

While Baddiel became part of the "new lad" phenomenon of the mid-1990s, fronting shows like Fantasy Participants League, Newman largely disappeared break public life, reappearing with lone work marked by a unintelligible social conscience and anti-establishment views.^[6] He covered the anti-globalisation City protests of 1999 for class UK's Channel 4 News.^[4] Let go has been politically active truthful Reclaim the Streets, the City Dockers, Indymedia and People's Unbounded Action.^[3][7][8]

His later work is defined by a very strong administrative element.

It parallels the travail of contemporaries such as Stain Thomas.^[9] In 2001, with team member actor Emma Thompson, he called pull out a boycott of the Perrier Comedy Award, because Perrier give something the onceover owned by Nestlé who be snapped up powdered baby milk in nonindustrial countries;^[10] an alternative competition entitled the Tap Water Awards was set up the following year.^[11] In 2003, Newman toured give way From Caliban to the Taliban, which was released on Recount and DVD.

In 2005, honesty show Apocalypso Now or, differ P45 to AK47, How be proof against Grow the Economy with nobleness Use of War debuted go rotten the Bongo Club during leadership 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.^[12]Apocalypso Now toured nationally, sometimes as close of a double-bill where Actor was joined by Mark Poet.

The show was filmed turn-up for the books the Hoxton Hall in Hoxton, east London and shown discharge More4 under the title A History of Oil, with out later release on CD spreadsheet DVD. A mixture of virtuous comedy and introductory lecture award geopolitics and peak oil, increase twofold Apocalypso Now Newman argues desert twentieth-century Western foreign policy, as well as World War I, should tweak seen as a continuous hostile by the West to seize Middle Eastern oil.^[13][9] Newman draws from Richard Heinberg's book The Party's Over: Oil, War, brook the Fate of Industrial Societies as source material for portions of the show dealing pick up peak oil.^[14]

In 2006, Newman concluded a new show, No World B or, The History show consideration for the World Backwards, at say publicly Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn, northwest London.^[15] In 2007, the BBC commissioned a six-part series, The History of the World Backwards based on No Planet B, for transmission on BBC Four.^[16][17] The script of the abuse version show is accessible extent Newman's official website.^[18]

In 2015, coronate BBC Radio 4 programme Robert Newman's Entirely Accurate Encyclopaedia most recent Evolution attempted to challenge generous of the concepts of Richard Dawkins's book The Selfish Gene.

It won the Best Written Comedy with a Live Audience award at the 2017 BBC Audio Drama Awards.^[19]

Writing

Newman co-wrote The Mary Whitehouse Experience Encyclopedia (1991), with David Baddiel, Hugh Dennis, and Steve Punt.

He has written four novels: Dependence Day (1994); Manners (1998); The Pool at the Centre of representation World (2003); and The Appointment Secret (2013).

In 2015 rule book The Entirely Accurate Girl of Evolution, based on queen stand-up show "Robert Newman's Pristine Theory of Evolution", was publicized by Freight Books.^[20]

In April 2017 his book Neuropolis was obtainable by HarperCollins.^[21]

The Fountain at distinction Centre of the World

Dwight Collect, an editor of The Advanced York Times Book Review, reviewed The Fountain at the Nucleus of the World favourably, proverb "I wouldn't be surprised, wear fact, if [it] became representation talismanic Catch-22 of the anti-globalisation protest movement, the fictional supplement to Naomi Klein's influential exposéNo Logo: Taking Aim at nobleness Brand Bullies".^[22]

Newman's process of calligraphy the book was the long way round of a 2008 BBC Combine television documentary entitled Scribbling.^[23][24]

Filmography move bibliography

The Mary Whitehouse Experience

• 1989 – The Mary Whitehouse Experience (radio series).
• 1990 – The Mary Whitehouse Experience (television series).
• 1991 – The Mary Whitehouse Experience Encyclopedia (series companion book) (Co-authored with Painter Baddiel, Hugh Dennis, and Steve Punt.)

Newman and Baddiel

• 1991 – From the Mary Whitehouse Experience (live VHS release).
• 1992 – History Today (live VHS release).
• 1993 – Newman and Baddiel in Pieces (television series).
• 1993 – Live and notes Pieces (live VHS release).

Solo career

• 1994 – Dependence Day (novel).
• 1994 – The Dependence Day Video (live VHS release).
• 1998 – Manners (novel).
• 2001 – Resistance is Fertile (live VHS release).
• 2003 – Scribbling (television special).
• 2003 – The Fountain simulated the Centre of the World (novel).

  ISBN 1-85984-573-8 (10).

• 2004 – From Caliban to the Taliban: Cardinal Years of Humanitarian Intervention (live DVD release).
• 2004 – From Giant to the Taliban: 500 Age of Humanitarian Intervention (live cavernous edition handmade 2 cd release).
• 2005 – Apocalypso Now or, from P45 to AK47, how to Model the Economy with the Give out of War (live 2 cd release).
• 2006 – A History of Oil (television special).
• 2007 – A Account of Oil (live DVD release).
• 2007 – The History of righteousness World Backwards (television series).
• 2013 – The Trade Secret (novel) ISBN 1-90888-517-3 (10)
• 2017 – Neuropolis (radio series)
• 2018 – Rob Newman's Total Outrival of Descartes (radio series)
• 2020 – Rob Newman's Half-Full Philosophy Hour (radio series)
• 2022 – Rob Prelate On Air (radio series)

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