Chris Dangerfield (writer)

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Chris Dangerfield
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Dangerfield in Cambodia taken by himself and used with permission
Birth nameChristopher Stuart Dangerfield
Born (1972-05-06) 6 May 1972 (age 51)
Dartford, Kent, England
MediumYouTube, Author, Spoken word
Years active2008–
Website chrisdangerfield.com

Christopher Stuart Dangerfield (born 6 May 1972) is an English writer, raconteur, and former stand-up comedian known for his controversial subject matter [1] and lifestyle. Having spent decades living in Soho, London he left in 2018 to live in Cambodia.

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He has appeared at venues all over the UK and in Europe and is known for regularly attending the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where he once received a 'Cunning Stunt' nomination for the Malcolm Hardee Award for having his show 'Sex Tourist' sponsored by a brothel. [2] Dangerfield's flyer entitled you to 10% off the services therein.

Early life

Dangerfield was born in Dartford, Kent, attending The Downs School. He studied contemporary art and music at Dartington College of Arts before going on to post-graduate study at Leeds University where he read Marxism, psychoanalysis and French post-structural thought, achieving a master's degree. After years describing himself as a Marxist he rejected the idea in 2016 in YouTube on his channel named 'Dangerfield' [3]

Career

Stand-up comedy

It was the show Sex Tourist [4] that established Dangerfield as a radical and original comedy voice. [5] Dangerfield performed a one-off special of Sex Tourist at The Comedy Cafe, Shoreditch, selling out in 2 days, beating the 20-year record of the venue. [6]

His 2014 show Sex With Children cemented Dangerfield firmly in the United Kingdom comedy scene, tackling difficult subject matter with panache, style and humour, producing an "astonishing piece of work" [7] [8] During this show, Dangerfield was sent a Courgette by the feminist organisation, Feminist Avengers, who also targeted Jimmy Carr and Jim Jefferies, with the instruction to "Go fuck himself". [9]

Dangerfield once toured with fellow comic Trevor Lock, performing for many types of people in their own front rooms. He has appeared with Rupert Everett on the Channel 4 show Love for Sale [10] discussing how he once spent £150,000 on Chinese prostitutes [11] and BBC Three's Prostitution: What’s The Harm Where he defended the right of prostitutes and punters alike. [12] He has appeared frequently on ITV, ITN, BBC Radio 4, Comedy Central, NBC, and other global networks.

Cultural criticism and YouTube

After quitting stand-up after ten years performing, and two sell-out Edinburgh shows, the last being the controversial but critically acclaimed Sex With Children, based on his "unflinching account of the childhood sexual abuse he suffered", [13] Dangerfield began his solo podcast 'Dangerfield's Sunday Prescription' [14] an improvised weekly surreal meander. After thirty-two hours of improvised audio only material, Dangerfield started a YouTube channel, where he continues to deliver his edgy, unapologetic comedy and cultural criticism. Dangerfield streams almost daily on his YouTube channel, improvising hours of talk with his subscribers about culture, art, politics, literature, drugs and current affairs. He also interviews guests from various fields such as jet bomber pilot Tim Davies [15] Filmmaker Slavko Martinov, [16] and professor Jeffrey Schaler, who wrote the book Addiction is a Choice [17] and discussed the weaponisation of mental health [18] with Dangerfield.

Writing

Dangerfield published his first novel 25 years ago, Tired, etc [19] which followed the lives of two permanently stoned wasters attempting to better their lot. On his YouTube channel and other platforms [20] he's been promising the release of a new novel, an autobiographic tale of his time quitting heroin in Thailand. Author Will Self introduced Dangerfield to writer Nick Papadimitriou [21] who is currently working as editor on the novel. After setting up a Substack in 2021, called Dangerfield's Exaggeration's [22] a collection of largely autobiographical tales, Dangerfield released the first teaser of this forthcoming novel in a piece called Skagless and Bible Black [23] and on 19 March 2023 he released another teaser called Mµ Kappa Delta Ganya [24] which he said "reflects the manuscript as a whole" more than the other teaser. On Dangerfield's Substack, in the comments to a short story called Whatever Happened To Hunting? [25] Author Will Self noted "Dangerfield is some strange sort of gnostic demiurge... the world we see around us in all its filth, pathos and iniquity is His creation..." [26]

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References

  1. ↑ "Chris Dangerfield: "Make it funny, and you can say anything"". theskinny.co.uk.
  2. ↑ Malcolm Hardee Award
  3. ↑ YouTube video
  4. ↑ Sex Tourist Review
  5. ↑ "Dangerfield: Sex with Children". chortle.co.uk.
  6. ↑ Such Small Portions – Fastest-selling show ever at The Comedy Cafe
  7. ↑ Article in The Scotsman
  8. ↑ "Chris Dangerfield on his new show, and difficult past". WOW247.
  9. ↑ "Feminists urge comedians to stop telling rape jokes". scotsman.com. 16 October 2008.
  10. ↑ From Channel4 on Daily motion
  11. ↑ Channel4 – Love for sale with Rupert Everett
  12. ↑ BBC3 Prostitution: What's the harm
  13. ↑ "The Reign of King Baby" . Retrieved 20 July 2022– via PressReader.
  14. ↑ "Dangerfield's Sunday Prescription". Archived from the original on 12 August 2015. Retrieved 29 July 2015. Dangerfield's Sunday Prescription, weekly podcast
  15. ↑ "Fast Jet Performance - Tim Davies". www.fastjetperformance.com. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
  16. ↑ "SLAVKO MARTINOV". SLAVKO MARTINOV. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
  17. ↑ 'Addiction is a Choice'
  18. ↑ LIVE: Jeffrey Schaler - Psychiatry + Weaponizing Mental Illness , retrieved 20 July 2022
  19. ↑ Tired, etc
  20. ↑ "Christmas in Cambodia with former comic and addict Chris Dangerfield". SO IT GOES - John Fleming's blog. 27 December 2020. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
  21. ↑ "Scarp by Nick Papadimitriou; Walking Home by Simon Armitage – review". The Guardian . 30 June 2012. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
  22. ↑ 'Dangerfield's Exaggeration's'
  23. ↑ 'Skagless and Bible Black'
  24. ↑ 'Mµ Kappa Delta Ganya'
  25. ↑ 'Whatever Happened To Hunting?
  26. ↑ Dangerfield, Chris (31 October 2021). "Whatever Happened To Hunting? (Pt 1)". Dangerfield's Exaggerations. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
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