Chris Ramsey (comedian)

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Birth name Christopher Ramsey Website Official website Spouse Rosie Winter (m. 2014) Influences Billy Connolly Nationality British		Genres Comedy Role Comedian Years active 2007–present Name Chris Ramsey Influenced by Billy Connolly

Medium Television, Stand-up comedy Nominations Kerrang! Award for Best Comedian Similar People Gino D'Acampo, Billy Connolly, Paddy McGuinness, Vernon Kay Profiles Twitter

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Christopher "Chris" Ramsey is an English stand-up comedian and actor from South Shields.

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Career

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Ramsey began his career in comedy in 2007 by hosting an open-mic night in Newcastle upon Tyne. In 2008, he was a nominee for the "Chortle Student Comedian of the Year". In 2010, Ramsey took his first solo show, Aggrophobic, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. His 2011 show, Offermation, was nominated for an Edinburgh Comedy Award. Offermation was recorded for BBC Radio 4, and broadcast in March 2012. Ramsey's 2012 Edinburgh show was Feeling Lucky which was followed by a national tour.

From October 2012 to December 2013, Ramsey starred as Jack Pearson in Jason Cook's BBC Two sitcom Hebburn. The show is set in Hebburn, near to Ramsey's hometown, South Shields. It screened for two series and a Christmas special. In 2014, Ramsey appeared on Live at the Apollo for the first time. In 2015, he took part in the Channel 4 series Time Crashers. Since 2016, Ramsey has co-presented I'm A Celebrity: Extra Camp on ITV2 alongside Joe Swash, Vicky Pattison and Stacey Solomon.

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He replaced Kevin McHale as the presenter of Virtually Famous from December 2016. He will also present his own series The Chris Ramsey Show for Comedy Central, beginning in January 2017.

Ramsey is a regular fixture at Funny Way To Be Comedy Club in Barnard Castle, having performed there on eight occasions.

In May 2017, it was confirmed that Ramsey would take over from Russell Howard as the host of Stand Up Central, due to Howard being unable to return due to tour commitments.

Credits

Mock The Week – Guest panellist

Live at the Apollo (2014) – Guest performer

Hebburn (2012–2013) – Jack Pearson

Never Mind The Buzzcocks – Guest panellist, 3 episodes

Richard Bacon's Beer & Pizza Club (2011) – Guest, 1 episode

Argumental (2011) – Guest, 1 episode

8 Out of 10 Cats (2011, 2013) – Guest panellist, 4 episodes

Celebrity Juice (2011–present) – Guest panellist, 20 episodes

Sweat the Small Stuff (2013–2014) – Guest panellist, 3 episodes

Celebrity Mastermind (2013) – Contestant, 1 episode

8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (2013) – Guest panellist, 1 episode

Celebrity Squares – Guest

A Question of Sport: Super Saturday (2014) – Guest, 1 episode

Virtually Famous (2014–2015) – Guest panellist, 4 episodes

The John Bishop Show (2015) – Guest performer, 1 episode

Time Crashers (2015) – Participant

Celebrity Benchmark (2015) – Contestant, 5 episodes

Russell Howard/Chris Ramsey's Stand Up Central (2016, 2017) – Guest performer, 1 episode (2016), Presenter (2017)

It's Not Me, It's You (2016) – Guest, 3 episodes

Prank Pad (2016–presenter) – Voiceover/narrator

I'm A Celebrity: Extra Camp (2016) – Co-presenter

Virtually Famous (2016–present) – Presenter

The Chris Ramsey Show (2017–present) – Presenter

Richard Osman's House of Games (2017)

Tours

Offermation (2011)

Feeling Lucky (2012)

All Growed Up (2015–2016)

Personal life

Ramsey married singer and actress Rosie Winter in July 2014.

References

Chris Ramsey (comedian) Wikipedia

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