Jason Manford tells Steph Elmore how he rebuffed Piers Morgan’s ‘fatty’ jibesPosted on Tue, Jul 27, 2010
After last week’s CityLife Comedian Of The Year final I met up with Manc comedian and youngest-ever winner of the competition, Whalley Range’s Jason Manford. It’s a name you will know if you are into comedy and, if not, one you will be hearing a lot more of soon.
Jason was just 17 when he captured the title in 1999 – following in the footsteps of Kay, Spikey and Aherne. Since then, life being a comic has been good, very good for Jason.
He has received a Perrier nomination, performed in China, Singapore and Dubai, branched out into radio, writing, presenting, acting, turned down a gig on the Charlotte Church Show and landed a part in the tv series Shameless, playing a security guard who gets into an unusual situation with a dog.
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