Chris' earliest talked of work comes from acting in' 'The Frogs' at Sixth Form. On graduating college up a traineeship with BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.…more
Morris got in trouble with Blue Peter after submitting a rap song he had written called "I'd rather be a nigger than a farmer's son" under the assumed name of Tungin' Ceeks - a nice touch given he was only twelve years old. The lyrics were set to a booming backbeat and 'cutting and scratching'.
Chris once sent Paul Simon a letter, pertaining to be from Channel 4 boss Michael Grade, wondering if he would care to comment on the fact that Grade had always considered Art Garfunkel to be the superior musical talent.
In June 1996 he appeared on the daytime programme 'The Time, The Place', posing as an academic Thurston Lowe, in a discussion entitled "Are British Men Lousy Lovers?"
He lasted almost the entire show without being found out.
Chris Morris: You can't help but be a cynical twot after that lot, I mean having this much shit-which it all is-written about you, it hurts, what can I say?
Chris Morris: I did five ten-minute improvisations with him [Peter Cook] for Radio 3 and was amazed because I expected him to be pickled. He was in fact incredibly lucid and possessed possibly the quickest mind I have ever come across. Just incredible, bursting off in streams of consciousness.
Chris Morris: It's a kind of Zen thing, all the different spaces you can fill with a 24 inch TV made up of average density foam rubber – sort of any space smaller than a TV but definitely nothing bigger – fairly self-explanatory really. As a concept it's a good starting point and from then on you just mix it up and play around with inflections. To be honest there's just a lot of arsing about.