Oct 18, 2011
Brendon Burns television career began, alongside Sacha Baron
Cohen and Ricky Gervais, as a performer on Channel 4's late-night
spontaneous comedy show The Eleven O'Clock Show. He has
subsequently appeared as a presenter on the ITV show I'm a
Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, and as the conductor of
masterclasses in stand-up (again on ITV).
Burns appeared on ITV2's Comedy Cuts. Brendon won the if.comedy
award for his show So I Suppose This Is Offensive Now at the 2007
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Also at the 2007 Fringe, Brendon Burns
appeared alongside Adam Hills and Sammy J in a stage version of
Breaker Morant by The Comedians' Theatre Company directed by Phil
Nichol.
Burns' albums include: Buckets and Sulphur, Misspent Childhood, Not
for Everyone, Brendon vs Burnsy, All My Love All My Rage, Sober not
Clean, And The Thinking Mans Idiot.
He famously gave out Magic Mushrooms (then legal) to an entire
audience at the Glastonbury festival as part of a documentary being
filmed by friend and film maker Paul Provenza. Today's show was
edited by Ben Schultz.
