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Here's what I send out when someone asks for a biog. It usually gets reduced to the words 'Miranda writer' for some reason. Never underestimate the power of BBC1.
Joel Morris, alongside his writing partner Jason Hazeley, is one of Britain’s busiest and most well respected comedy writers. Which probably isn't saying much.
Their pastiche Ladybird Books For Grown Ups series has occupied between 5 and 8 of the 10 top ten hardback bestseller spots consistently since October 2015. As well as co-creating legendary news spoof The Framley Examiner and bestselling travel guide Bollocks To Alton Towers (“one of the best guide books ever written” - Guardian, Sunday Times best selling travel book of the year), they wrote a fair chunk of the recent Paddington movie (2014), are currently working on Paddington II, and have been longstanding contributors to pottymouthed national treasure Viz magazine.
They are regular collaborators with Charlie Brooker, co-writing the Weekly Wipe shows and the annual Screenwipe reviews of the year. Recently, they were part of the team behind the critically lauded crime-pastiche trilogy A Touch Of Cloth (Sky1), lead writing the second film in the series with Charlie, which won the 2014 Broadcast Award for Best Comedy.
As well as co-creating musical sitcom The Midnight Beast for E4, television work includes Murder In Successville (BBC3), That Mitchell and Webb Look (BBC2; BAFTA, Best Comedy Programme), Alright In The 70s (C4; RTS Scotland Award, BAFTA Best Feature / Factual Entertainment Programme), It's Kevin (BBC2), The Armstrong and Miller Show (BBC1; BAFTA, Best Comedy Programme), Miranda (BBC2; British Comedy Award, Best New Comedy; RTS Award, Best Scripted Comedy), ManStrokeWoman (BBCThree), Fur TV (MTV), and Have I Got News For You (BBC1).
They wrote the two bestselling books spun off from the BBC1 show Mrs Brown’s Boys, as well as The World According To Gogglebox to accompany the Channel 4 series. Their words have filled valuable unclaimed advertising space in The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Observer, The Guardian, The Independent, Mojo, Esquire, Jack and The Idler.
Radio work includes the award-winning Flight of the Conchords (BBC Radio 2), Kevin Eldon Will See You Now (BBC Radio 4), That Mitchell and Webb Sound (BBC Radio 4; Sony Bronze Award) and many others.
He divides his time between London and the pub.
Joel Morris, alongside his writing partner Jason Hazeley, is one of Britain’s busiest and most well respected comedy writers. Which probably isn't saying much.
Their pastiche Ladybird Books For Grown Ups series has occupied between 5 and 8 of the 10 top ten hardback bestseller spots consistently since October 2015. As well as co-creating legendary news spoof The Framley Examiner and bestselling travel guide Bollocks To Alton Towers (“one of the best guide books ever written” - Guardian, Sunday Times best selling travel book of the year), they wrote a fair chunk of the recent Paddington movie (2014), are currently working on Paddington II, and have been longstanding contributors to pottymouthed national treasure Viz magazine.
They are regular collaborators with Charlie Brooker, co-writing the Weekly Wipe shows and the annual Screenwipe reviews of the year. Recently, they were part of the team behind the critically lauded crime-pastiche trilogy A Touch Of Cloth (Sky1), lead writing the second film in the series with Charlie, which won the 2014 Broadcast Award for Best Comedy.
As well as co-creating musical sitcom The Midnight Beast for E4, television work includes Murder In Successville (BBC3), That Mitchell and Webb Look (BBC2; BAFTA, Best Comedy Programme), Alright In The 70s (C4; RTS Scotland Award, BAFTA Best Feature / Factual Entertainment Programme), It's Kevin (BBC2), The Armstrong and Miller Show (BBC1; BAFTA, Best Comedy Programme), Miranda (BBC2; British Comedy Award, Best New Comedy; RTS Award, Best Scripted Comedy), ManStrokeWoman (BBCThree), Fur TV (MTV), and Have I Got News For You (BBC1).
They wrote the two bestselling books spun off from the BBC1 show Mrs Brown’s Boys, as well as The World According To Gogglebox to accompany the Channel 4 series. Their words have filled valuable unclaimed advertising space in The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Observer, The Guardian, The Independent, Mojo, Esquire, Jack and The Idler.
Radio work includes the award-winning Flight of the Conchords (BBC Radio 2), Kevin Eldon Will See You Now (BBC Radio 4), That Mitchell and Webb Sound (BBC Radio 4; Sony Bronze Award) and many others.
He divides his time between London and the pub.