Biography

Gordon Southern has been a Stand Up Comedian since November 1993.

He's performed all over the country and at most top gigs (including Comedy Store and Jongleurs) and has played at the Dubai, Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne comedy festivals. In recent years he’s also played in China, Indonesia, Singapore, Barhain and the UAE, all over Europe and even the Falkland Islands.

He’s collected hundreds of stories from this tour of the world, some of which will feature in his first stand up show for 5 years THE SOLUTIONS

In the UK he is a regular at the Comedy Store, Banana, Jongleurs etc. He’s performed many times at the Edinburgh festival, garnering four star reviews in the Guardian, Scotsman and The List. In 2003 he learned guitar and drums for a critically acclaimed show “My Drums Hell”

• Compered the 1996/97 Newcastle Brown Comedy Network, 30+ minute support sets on 1997/98 tour.
• Resident compere at Brixton's "By George!", a club set up by members of The Cheese Shop in 1994-1996.
• Regular host at East Dulwich Tavern on their new act nights since May 1996.
• Other residencies at Orange Boom Boom (Autumn 97) and Cosmic (April-May 1998)
  
  

TV Shows include

• 2xBBC Stand Up Show (BBC1)
• Edinburgh Comedy (BBC2)
• The Sunday Show (LIVE on BBC2)
• Mischief (BBC3)
• 11 O Clock Show (C4)
• Paramount Presents… The Cheese Shop

Radio Shows include

• Four series of The Cheese Shop (R4)… still on Radio 7!
  
  The Cheese Shop won a Time Out Comedy Award for their live shows

TV Warm Up

• 11 O'Clock Show (C4)
• Armstrong and Miller Dec 1996
• The Jack Docherty Show Four nights a week from Sept 15 1997 to January 1998

The Cheese Shop

• The Cheese Shop Presents...The Butter Factor (BBC R4) Series 1: Jan 1997 and repeated Sept 1997. The Brandy Butter Factor Christmas Special: Recorded/ Broadcast Dec 1997. The Cheese Shop Presents.. Fellalis Flav Series 2: Recording April May 1998
• Comikaze (Paramount TV) Sketch comedy evenings: broadcast April 1996. Later repackaged and screened within Paramount Presents.
• Stand Up 2 (BBC R2) April 1997
• The Joy Of Sketch (BBC R2) 1998
• Edinburgh Festival sketch shows 93, 95, 96, 97
• Time Out Comedy Award 1995 (Most surprising discovery)

Writing & Performing Credits

• 11 O'Clock Show (C4)
• Good Stuff (ITV)
• Gas (Ch4) Feb 98
• Comedy Nation (BBC 2) Writer/ performer Jan-March 98
• The Big Breakfast (Ch4) Writer: Nov 97
• Addictions (BBC RI) Writer/ Voice Over: Nov 97 Broadcast Jan 98
• The Comedy Network (C5) Stand Up (2 sets); Oct 97 Broadcast 98 TBC
• The Sunday Show (BBC 2) Writer/performer in The Gallagher Brothers Nov-Dec 96 The Main Points Again (BBC R5) Team Captain on pilot panel show: Dec 96
• Standup Show
• Swat.com
  
  
• Other writing credits for BBC2, C5, Sky One, BBC Radio 1,2,4,5 Too numerous and tedious to mention 1995-1998
• He's also written stand-up material for other acts.

Press

• “Top class all round” - The Sunday Times
• “Razor sharp wit and cavernous imagination” - Evening Standard
• “Hugely talented” - Time Out
• “Top notch stories…Had the audience in stitches” - DB magazine, Australia
• “Deliciously funny” - Beat Magazine, Australia
  
  
• Review of “Best of the Edinburgh Fest” in Adelaide:
  “Gordon Southern was the pick of the three and could have carried the show on his own” - The Independent

Copyright Gordon Southern 2006