name | Robin Ince |
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birth date | February 20, 1969 |
medium | Stand-up, Television, Film, Radio |
nationality | British |
active | 2000-Present |
influences | Ricky Gervais |
notable work | The OfficeFame''Politics |
website | http://www.robinince.com |
past members | }} |
Ince appeared at the Cafe Royale as part of the Edinburgh Fringe show Rubbernecker, alongside Stephen Merchant, Jimmy Carr and Ricky Gervais in 2001.
Ince appeared in The Office as failed interviewee Stuart Foot, and was a support act on Ricky Gervais's 2004 Politics tour and his 2007 Fame tour. Ince has appeared on clip shows on British television, where he and other comedians appeared as talking heads.
In 2005, Ince began running the Book Club night at The Albany, London, where acts are encouraged to perform turns of new and experimental material. The club gets its name from Ince's attempts to read aloud from - and humorously criticise - various second-hand books which the audience and himself have brought in for the occasion. The Book Club proved to be so successful that Ince took it on a full UK tour in 2006, the same year he won the Time Out Award for Outstanding Achievement in Comedy. In 2010, Ince published a book entitled Robin Ince's Bad Book Club about his favourite books that he has used for his shows.
He presents a podcast for ParamountComedy.com, Show & Tell (now called Utter Shambles), but can be heard more often on BBC Radio 7's Serious About Comedy. Ince presented this discussion programme since 2005, until its end in November 2007. Regular panellists include Book Club performers Josie Long, Howard Read and Natalie Haynes, comedy critics Bruce Dessau and Stephen Armstrong, and many others from the British comedy industry. He currently resides in Cirencester.
Ince and the physicist Brian Cox present the science series The Infinite Monkey Cage on BBC Radio 4. The programme won a Gold Award in the Best Speech Programme category at the 2011 Sony Radio Awards.
Ince opened for Ricky Gervais on the Ricky's "Politics" (2004) tour. He also appears on the DVD. As a close friend of Ricky Gervais, Ince also often appears in Ricky's video podcasts.
Ince was also lead singer in alternative rock combo TheReg from 1992-1994.
Ince first appeared at Greyfriars Kirkhouse at the Edinburgh Festival in 1990 where Eddie Izzard was running a venue. At the time Ince was performing in a play called Shadow Walker by Trevor Maynard.
Throughout 2008, Ince had residency at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre trying out new material for his upcoming shows.
In late 2008 he released a live stand up DVD entitled Robin Ince is as Dumb as You, released by Go Faster Stripe.
Between January and April 2009, Ince performed his UK tour Bleeding Heart Liberal, with 51 dates, touring the country.
Ince is a great supporter of the yearly festival 'Pestival' which showcases science, music and comedy. He is also a regular attendant of the Latitude Festival where he performs a mixture of his current stand-up show and Book Club.
He also is an atheist and supports the Rationalist Association via New Humanist magazine by organising events at the Bloomsbury Theatre and at the Hammersmith Apollo featuring scientists, musicians and comedians. The first of these was Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People at Christmas 2008, and more recently he has fronted a Night of 40 Billion Stars. Regular contributors include Josie Long, Chris Addison, Ricky Gervais, Richard Dawkins, Simon Singh and Philip Jeays. In 2009, Ince organised two events with Josie Long, called Darwin's Birthday Spectacular, marking both the scientist's 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species'. He was recently made a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association.
In 2009, Ince began touring a new show, Robin Ince vs. the Moral Majority.
Ince has been part of Bright Club in both 2009 and 2010.
On 15 September 2010, Ince, along with 54 other public figures, signed an open letter published in The Guardian, stating their opposition to Pope Benedict XVI's state visit to the UK. He took part in the Cheltenham Science Festival in June 2011.
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