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Phill Jupitus (born March 6, 1962 in Newport, Isle of Wight) is a British comedian. He is a regular on television and radio panel shows, including BBC Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue and BBC Two/BBC Four's Qi, and is a team captain on BBC TWO's Never Mind The Buzzcocks. He was also a team captain on the BBC's somewhat flawed television comedy panel show It's Only TV But I Like It in 1999. March 6 is the 65th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (66th in Leap years). ...
1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ...
Location within the British Isles Newport is the county town and nominal capital of the Isle of Wight, an island in the Solent off the south coast of England. ...
The Isle of Wight is an English island, south of Southampton off the southern English coast. ...
BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ...
Im Sorry I Havent a Clue, sometimes abbreviated to ISIHAC, is a radio comedy programme that has had several series each year on BBC Radio 4, BBC7 and the BBCs World Service from April 11, 1972 to the present. ...
BBC Two (or BBC2 as it was formerly styled) was the second UK television station to be aired by the BBC and the first British television channel to broadcast regularly in colour (from 1967), envisaged as a home for less mainstream and more ambitious programming. ...
BBC Four is a BBC television channel available to digital television (Freeview, satellite and cable) viewers in the UK. The successor to an earlier digital channel called BBC Knowledge, BBC Four began broadcasting on March 2, 2002 - its first evenings programming being simulcast on BBC Two. ...
Qi, also commonly spelled chi, chi or ki, is a fundamental concept of traditional Chinese culture, most often defined as air or breath (for example, a term meaning weather is tiÄn qi, or the breath of heaven) and, by extension, life force or spiritual energy that is part...
BBC Two (or BBC2 as it was formerly styled) was the second UK television station to be aired by the BBC and the first British television channel to broadcast regularly in colour (from 1967), envisaged as a home for less mainstream and more ambitious programming. ...
Publicity shot for Never Mind The Buzzcocks, episode aired on 13th March 2005. ...
Jupitus is also a disc jockey, both on the radio and at clubs and festivals, a fan of alternative music styles. He presents the weekday breakfast show on digital radio station BBC 6 Music. In recent years he has presented some of the BBC's television coverage of music events, such as the Glastonbury Festival. Prior to his current broadcasting career, he was a performance poet and cartoonist under the stage-name 'Porky the Poet'. For other meanings of DJ, see DJ (disambiguation). ...
The term alternative rock or alternative music1 was coined in the early 1980s to describe bands which didnt fit into the mainstream genres of the time. ...
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BBC 6 Music is one of the BBCs newest radio stations, launched on March 11, 2002 and originally codenamed Network Y. It is only available via digital media - DAB radio, the Internet and the various forms of digital television. ...
The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury Festival or Glasto, is the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world. ...
Jupitus' career began as a performance poet in the mid-1980s, and he toured as a warm-up act for Billy Bragg. He turned to stand-up comedy and worked in the offices of Bragg's record company while learning the trade. Stephen William Bragg (born December 20, 1957), known as Billy Bragg, is a British musician known for his blend of folk, punk-rock, and protest music. ...
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Trivia
- He is a devout fan of the Boston Red Sox, often wearing Red Sox apparel during television appearances.
- His left ear is pierced.
- He is arachnophobic.
- Jupitus once worked as press officer and MC for the band The Housemartins.
- In July 2005 he broadcast his BBC 6 Music Breakfast Show live from the home of the Medd family in Nottingham. James Medd is lead guitarist with glam metal band Trippin' Over Wah.
- He directed the video for the Billy Bragg song "Sexuality", and wrote a parody version about bestiality.
- Is making appearences on the 2006 'Hope Not Hate' tour with Billy Bragg- singing his parody of 'Sexuality': Bestiality.
Major league affiliations American League (1901-present) East Division (1969-present) Major league titles World Series titles (6) 2004 • 1918 • 1916 • 1915 1912 • 1903 AL Pennants (11) 2004 • 1986 • 1975 • 1967 1946 • 1918 • 1916 • 1915 1912 • 1904 • 1903 East Division titles (5) 1995 • 1990 • 1988 • 1986 1975 Wild card berths...
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The Housemartins were a British indie rock band that was active in the 1980s. ...
BBC 6 Music is one of the BBCs newest radio stations, launched on March 11, 2002 and originally codenamed Network Y. It is only available via digital media - DAB radio, the Internet and the various forms of digital television. ...
Power metal combo from Nottingham England; contemporary bluesy swagger with a touch of glam. ...
Stephen William Bragg (born December 20, 1957), known as Billy Bragg, is a British musician known for his blend of folk, punk-rock, and protest music. ...
Look up Bestiality in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
External links The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about actors, movies, television shows, television stars and video games. ...
References - BBC Radio 4, 2000. In Conversation With... Phill Jupitus. Series 2, Episode 7, first broadcast 18 May.
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