Steve Coogan
Steve Coogan
Stephen John "Steve" Coogan is an English actor, stand-up comedian, impressionist, writer, and producer. He began his career in the 1980s, working as a voice artist on the satirical puppet show Spitting Image and providing voiceovers for television advertisements. In the early 1990s, he began creating original comic characters, leading him to win the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In 1999, he co-founded the production company Baby Cow Productions...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth14 October 1965
CityMiddleton, England
I'm 47, my girlfriend's 33; she's 14 years younger than me, back of the net!
I try to not make safe choices, but I also like to do stuff which is interesting and is sort of exciting in some way and accessible.
Yeah, all drama teachers are very effusive, very demonstrative, very emotionally open, very big, and gesticulate a lot, and are very physical.
The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.
I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest.
I wasn't a naturally confident, extravert, outgoing person.
I want my work to be judged, not me.
I used to do stuff at college. I could do voices. I could make some people laugh. I wasn't the class clown, but I knew I had this skill.
Most of all I don't want to be bored. That's why I'd rather do something that has some sort of ambition, that risks failing, rather than make safer, more comfortable choices.
I've met people who've dismissed me, and then they find out that they like my work, and suddenly their attitude changes toward me. And I think that's very funny and very human. But it's also very unattractive.
The tabloids operate in an amoral parallel universe where the bottom line is selling newspapers.
When you tour you become more intimate with your audience. It's like I need reassurance that they like me or at least find me relevant. And that I can still do it.
I enjoy comedy but it can become wearisome.
What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing.