1. Christopher David Addison was born on 5 November 1971 and is a British comedian, writer, actor, and director.
29 Facts About Chris Addison
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Chris Addison was a panellist on several editions of TV comedy panel show Mock the Week.
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Chris Addison is known for lecture-style comedy shows, two of which he later adapted for BBC Radio 4.
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Chris Addison co-created and starred in the BBC Two sitcom Lab Rats.
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Chris Addison was born in Cardiff, Wales, to English parents and moved with his parents to Worsley, Salford, England, when he was four.
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Chris Addison has been a panellist on three of Radio 4's comedy panel games: Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive, first appearing in 2006, Just a Minute, first appearing in 2007, and The Unbelievable Truth, first appearing in 2009.
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Chris Addison hosted a series of the Radio 4 comedy series 4 Stands Up, which showcases up-coming and established comedy talent.
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On 10 May 2009, Chris Addison hosted the Sunday Night Show on Absolute Radio in place of fellow stand-up comedian Iain Lee who was away due to being on his honeymoon.
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Chris Addison hosted 7 Day Sunday, a satirical news show on BBC Radio 5 Live along with his co-hosts Sarah Millican and Andy Zaltzman.
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Chris Addison presented the second series of the show until February 2011, when he was replaced by Al Murray.
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Chris Addison is good friends with Geoff Lloyd on Absolute Radio and has made a few appearances on Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show.
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From 2005 to 2012, Chris Addison appeared in the BBC television satirical comedy series The Thick of It as Oliver "Ollie" Reeder, Junior Advisor to the Secretary of State.
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Chris Addison appeared in all of the four series, as well as the two specials 'Rise of the Nutters' and 'Spinners and Losers'.
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Chris Addison featured in the film spin-off of The Thick of It, titled In the Loop, playing Toby Wright, a character very similar to his part in the television original.
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Lab Rats featured cast members Jo Enright, Geoffrey McGivern and Dan Tetsell, with whom Chris Addison had worked previously on the radio adaptations of his one-man shows The Ape That Got Lucky and Civilisation.
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Chris Addison appeared alongside other regular panellists Hugh Dennis and Andy Parsons and the show's host, Dara O Briain.
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In 2014 Chris Addison starred in the Sky Living series Trying Again.
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In 2000 Chris Addison co-hosted the short-lived Channel 4 comedy series Dotcomedy with Gail Porter.
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Chris Addison appeared in episode 3 of series 5 of Live at the Apollo.
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Chris Addison appeared on The Graham Norton Show on 16 April 2009 promoting In the Loop.
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Chris Addison appeared on Skins as Professor David Blood, the college director of Roundview College and father of third Generation character Grace Violet.
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On 4 November 2010 Chris Addison hosted the BBC's Have I Got News For You, having previously been a guest on the show.
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Chris Addison has made an appearance in children's television show Horrible Histories.
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Chris Addison directed the 2019 comedy The Hustle, starring Rebel Wilson and Anne Hathaway, a remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which in turn was a remake of Bedtime Story.
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In 2022, Chris Addison directed Ralph Fiennes playing George Frederick Handel in a period comedy-drama, Hallelujah.
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From 2003 to 2005 Chris Addison wrote a fortnightly finance column for The Guardian titled "Funny Money".
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Chris Addison has written two books, both published by Hodder and Stoughton: Cautionary Tales for Grown Ups in 2006 and It Wasn't Me: Why Everybody is to Blame and You're Not in 2008.
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In February 2016 Chris Addison took the speaking role of Smith, an Englishman, in the French opera L'Etoile at The Royal Opera House, London.
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Chris Addison became a Patron of Social Enterprise UK in 2017.