James Acaster
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James William Acaster (born 9 January 1985) is an English comedian who hails from Kettering, Northamptonshire. He has appeared at Edinburgh Festival Fringe for many years, winning two Chortle awards in 2015.
At the Edinburgh Fringe, he has been voted for Best Show five times.
Acaster has appeared on several panel programs, including Mock the Week, Taskmaster, 8 out of ten Cats, and Would I Lie to You?
Repertoire, a Netflix show based on four hour stand-up comedy performances, is on sale in 2018.
He has also written two books, James Acaster's Classic Scrapes, consisting of true tales, the bulk of which were broadcast on Josh Widdicombe's show on XFM and Perfect Sound Whatever, consisting of album reviews from 2016.
He currently hosts the panel show Hypothetical alongside Widdicombe and the food podcast Off Menu with fellow comedian Ed Gamble.
Early life
On January 9, 1985, James William Acaster was born in Kettering. He attended Montagu Secondary School and studied music at Northampton College. He later worked as a tutor in a school for autistic children, and from there, he began performing stand-up comedy.
Acaster performed in various bands around his hometown, including The Wow! The Capri-Sun Quartet and Scenario are included in the Capri-Sun Quartet. He used the stage name Sir William Strawberry as a member of the latter.After The Wow!
"When deciding what [he] really wanted to do," Scenario began to act, he pursued comedies rather than trying to figure out what [he] wanted to do."The Wow!
In 2007, Scenario released Stand in the Star: A Verse and a Chorus, but did not announce it; Acaster announced in 2017 that he had reunited with the band to finish the album and that it would be available the following year; however, it is unveiled.Personal life
He dated English comedian Louise Ford before she left him for Rowan Atkinson in 2013. Rose Matafeo, a New Zealand comedian, appeared on television from 2014 to 2017.
Acaster has discussed his battle with depression and seeks regular therapy.
Career
In 2008, Acaster first appeared in stand-up comedy. Josh Widdicombe and Nick Helm co-starred in a show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2009. He performed for Josie Long and Milton Jones on tour in 2010 and 2011.
In 2011, he appeared on Russell Howard's Good News Extra and Dave's One Night Standout, and he performed his first solo performance at the Edinburgh Festival, Among Other Things, which followed him around the country for the first year. Acaster appeared in Australia Versus as part of Chris Addison's E4 programme Show and Tell, and as co-host of My First Gig on Resonance FM radio.
Protestt, Acaster's 2012 Edinburgh exhibition, was dubbed Prosecutors. It was nominated for the best comedy show at the festival in 2012.
On XFM's radio show Josh Widdicombe, acaster, first requested to share a tale about a bizarre occurrence he hadn't encountered in the past. His first story was so popular that he was asked to continue publishing a story every week. These stories, nicknamed "scrapes" by Josh and later "classic scrapes" by the program's followers, became a recurring segment called 'James Acaster's Classic Scrapes'. Acaster's tales included going line dancing with his brother on Valentine's day, inadvertently scaring the actor Adewale Akinnuo-Agbaje in a Chiquito restaurant, and then being chastised by a friend's son in the form of pranks involving cabbage.
Acaster appeared at 14 venues in England and Wales between January and March 2013, after which he appeared at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival. In December 2013, he received the New Zealand Comedy Guild's highest international act award.
The 2013 Edinburgh show Lawnmower was on display at the Pleasance Courtyard in Acaster. It was shortlisted for the Best Comedy Show at the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award 2013 for the best comedy performance. He made his first appearance on the BBC musical comedy panel show Never Mind the Buzzcocks in September 2013. On October 30, 2013 he concluded his UK tour of Lawnmower at a hometown gig in Kettering.
Acaster appeared in various segments of radio, including the half-hour show "James Acaster's Bread" for BBC Radio 4, which also featured Nathaniel Metcalfe and Bryony Hannah. In June and July 2014, a series of four episodes of "James Acaster's Findings" was broadcast. The first of these episodes was broadcast on November 5, 2014. Acaster appeared on Josh Widdicombe's XFM radio show, where he became a fan favorite thanks to a segment involving anecdotes of his name (most of which were later assembled in a book in 2017). Sweet Home Ketteringa (2014) follows him on a voyage of discovery around his hometown, investigating its roots and emerging rivalries with proximal town Corby, which were sparked by the opening of a Primark store in the latter town.
Recognise, Acaster's 2014 Edinburgh show, was dubbed Recognise. The show was staged in Australia and New Zealand in April and May, where it received the New Zealand International Comedy Festival Award for Best International Show in April and May. Recognise was nominated for the Best Comedy Award in 2014 by Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award for the best comedy performance – the third time Acaster has been in a row. During fall 2014, over 30 British venues were performed, including a two-week run at the Soho Theatre in December, due to the popularity of the October dates at the same venue.
The Representation of Acaster was held again at the Pleasance Courtyard, and it was formally announced as Representation. It was Acaster's fourth straight Edinburgh Comedy Award nomination for Best Show, his second artist to do so after Al Murray. This exhibition ran in the United Kingdom from October to December 2015, with the Lyric Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue ending. Acaster brought Representation to the Soho Theatre for a week-long run in March 2016.
He received the Chortle awards for Best Breakthrough Act and Best Show for Recognise in 2015.
Reset was Acaster's 2016 premiere. It was first seen at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the New Zealand International Comedy Festival in Auckland and Wellington, both in April/May 2016, then at the Udderbelly Festival in June 2016, and then in July at The Tringe Festival in Tring. In August 2016, Acaster performed this performance at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where he became the first comedian to be named with a fifth award for best show at the festival. In June 2016, Acaster appeared on Russell Howard's Stand Up Central as a guest. In July 2016, Acaster appeared in the comedy tent at Latitude Festival. He wrote a pilot episode for a new sitcom called We The Jury in September 2016, which was broadcast by the BBC.
Recognise, Represent, and Reset were all exhibited in Acaster in 2017, with one show per night as The Trelogy. Recap, a previously produced collection of work, was also developed to tie the shows together thematically. These four shows were shot in September for a Netflix special. In August, James Acaster's Classic Scrapes, retracing the tales he told on Josh Widdicombe's XFM radio show and podcast, was released in August, followed by a book-reading tour in fall 2017. Classic Scrapes appeared on The Sunday Times best-seller list. He switched on the Christmas lights in Kettering in November.
In March 2018, Acaster unveiled his Netflix stand-up comedy special, Repertoire. It consists of four separate hour-long stand-up comedy performances, all of which were shot in September 2017: "Recognise," "Represent," "Reset," and "Recap." In July 2018, Acaster appeared on the Cornbury Music Festival's Comedy Stage. Off Menu is Ed Gamble's latest weekly podcast series. Gamble and Acaster have invited a special guest to address their dream starter, main course, side, dessert, and drink in the podcast.
Acaster was nominated for Best Show with Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999, awarded the Chortle Award in 2019. Acaster's second book is about an arduous challenge that he took on in 2017 to find as much music as possible. In August 2019, Headline Publishing Group first published it. Acaster received the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award in 2019, making him the first UK comedian to do so in nine years. In April 2020, Acaster's podcast with BBC Sounds, James Acaster's Perfect Sounds, launched in Acaster.
In the 2021 film Cinderella, Acaster, Ranganathan, and James Corden appeared as three mice and appeared as three transformed footmen. In 2022, James Acaster's Guide to Quitting published the book James Acaster's Guide to Quitting. Vol. : James Acaster's Guide to Quitting, Vol. 1.
In March 2021, Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 was first published on Vimeo. In 2022, it was nominated for the Best Comedy Special Award by the Critics Choice Award for the Best Comedy Special.