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Losing his twin sister felt like a blow too far for Stephen, who had never before suffered from panic attacks or anxiety. “At first it was an exciting adventure. “I did it for a laugh and a good cause. Sign Up. Not for nothing is Stephen K Amos known as a feelgood comedian. In December 2007, he hosted a documentary, Penis Envy,[8][9] for the free United Kingdom digital television channel Virgin1,[10] in which he explored men's ongoing insecurities with penis size with the help of actors from Puppetry of the Penis, naked rugby players and the men willing to experiment with apparent penis enlarging "treatments". A brilliant insight in to the world of actor Sir David Jason. - Flicky Harrison. Nigeria proved eye-opening, not least because there was another surprise in store: they were going to stay. I go on stage. It was all the joy of having one child … but totally ruined!” One year, to curb expenditures, his 
parents tried convincing the kids they were Jehovah’s Witnesses, and were therefore prohibited from 
celebrating Christmas. When Amos, who has a twin sister, asked his mother what their birth was like, she replied, “Ah Stephen! Once he locked a much-despised teacher in the supply cabinet. I don’t know how things would have turned out if we’d stayed in Nigeria. See more of Stephen K Amos on Facebook. I have been grieving and this is a reflection on my personal brickbats,’’ he said. “The reason I don’t say my age is because in this business people pigeonhole you and go ‘This is what you can do at this age.’ I surround myself with younger, upbeat, enthusiastic people who inspire me. I think we should be able to sit down and discuss things like adults. Amos performed on the alternative stage at Reading Festival on 27 August 2010, and the Leeds Festival on 28 August 2010. 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With families there are so many personalities and different points of view; you don’t have to love your family, we’re all different people. “I certainly wasn’t playing rugby,’’ said Stephen “I am the least sporty person.’’. After London, where he was taunted by his teachers and his peers for being different, and where neighbours painted racist slurs on their car, wasn’t it wonderful stepping into a world where black skin was the norm? I know people [there] who are hiding on the ‘downlow’. How do you manage to stay positive these days?I get my positivity from human beings. He writes, “Fola was the first black performer that I had ever met. No one’s going to die. or. Despite all that has personally happened to Stephen and all that is going on in the world, including Trump and Brexit, the comedian says he made his show light hearted, as everyone is fed up with all the doom and gloom. Something good happens on a daily basis: a text from someone, a stranger doing something nice for you on the street or someone just saying something positive. In December 2010, Amos appeared on Live at the Apollo as host and compere. How has it been to talk about losing close family members in your stand-up?I never thought I could do something like this, as my whole thing has been to keep them laughing and not to hold the silence. [11] In March 2010, Amos appeared with the England rugby squad playing Nelson Mandela, in an comedy sketch for the BBC's Sport Relief. In a very funny chat Stephen is coy about his age but tells us his twin sister is definitely a few years older than he is! Older brother, older sister, twins, then the other creatures,” he waves his hand dismissively, and then explains that the young lady joining us, with whom he clearly shares a warm relationship, is in fact his younger sister. Newsquest Media Group Ltd, Loudwater Mill, Station Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. “It was so ecstatic, going to a place where you are judged by your character, because they can’t make a judgement about your skin colour. Amos is currently featured in the BBC Radio 4 show The Odd Half Hour, which began broadcasting on 16 November 2010. What's behind the Bouquets And Brickbats title?I picked that because the last 18 months have been awful both personally for me and in the whole world at large. On Fern Britton's The 5 O'Clock Show (Channel 4, 19 July 2010), he stated that his middle name is Kehinde, which is a Yoruba name for "second of twins". He talks to Brian Donaldson about the extremes of politics, personal loss, and the positive boost he gets from his fans. This website and its associated newspaper are members of Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). Even though I’m on Twitter and Facebook, that’s for work. “I thought, ‘What’s the worst that can happen?’ The worst is that people hate you. The Amos clan, as he depicts them, is wonderfully entertaining. When I got my own place and they started visiting, it was like, ‘You’re in my house now, my rules’, and they were fine with it.”, Those close to him knew, but as for the public – I tell him that a couple of years ago his sexuality felt like a major talking point of the Fringe. Stephen K Amos : Is his mum really Shirley Bassey? Amos only agreed to attend if he could ask the Pope questions. If I sound hazy about time, it is because what Amos writes in his memoir, I Used To Say My Mother Was Shirley Bassey, doesn’t always dovetail with what he says when we meet at Edinburgh’s Hotel Indigo. If he’s that shy, what force propels Stephen K Amos out on stage every night? It won a Royal Television Society Award and was nominated for a BAFTA. He has also appeared in Rich Hall's Cattle Drive, EastEnders, Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle and as a featured performer on BBC One's Live at the Apollo after Dara Ó Briain and before Frankie Boyle. , Discovering Fleetwood’s Heritage with a Fisherman’s Friend, Six the Musical returns to The Lowry for Christmas, Hope Mill Theatre Launch £5000 Playwriting Prize, Mamma Mia! In 2019, Amos starred in BBC's Pilgrimage show[13], walking Via Francigena, an ancient pilgrimage route to Rome. A Gannett Company. Clip from the Stephen K Amos Show on BBC 2. No.” Thoroughly versed in his mischievousness from reading the memoir, I speculate that he threw pebbles at the windows until someone let him in. Email or Phone: Password: Forgot account? Bouquets and Brickbats will be stopping off at the Swindon Arts Centre, Devizes Road, Old Town on Thursday, November 8. [21] Amos is a member of The Arts Emergency Service. “To be perfectly honest, I think it’s about respect. We had none of that in England. During the audience, Amos told Pope Francis: "I lost my mother, three months ago I buried my twin sister, who were both very religious. When you’re doing history as a six-year-old reading about slavery and Britain ruling the world, you think, ‘Britain ruled the world. He began his career as a compere at the Big Fish comedy clubs in South London, and has been nominated for Chortle's Best Compere Award three times in 2004, 2007 and 2008. With kids. Amos has the distinction of being one of the few stand up comics chosen to appear at the 2007 Royal Variety Performance. “I was born in 1976,” he says, giving me a look that defies contradiction. People who have appeared on the show include Lucy Montgomery and Lucy Porter. But to put myself out there, I couldn’t 
do it.”. The Pope responded, "Giving more importance to the adjective rather than the noun, this is not good. Amos, one of eight children, lives in South London. He rears back, hand to chest, looks at his sister and then at me. “That’s exactly what I did. [22][23], Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Review of Stephen K Amos: Work in Progress, Fringe 2012", "Virgin 1's brand new cock-umentary gets to grips with The Great British Penis", BBC This Week: Amos, O'Rourke, Kat Von D and Moore, "BBC Radio 4 – Life: An Idiot's Guide, Series 1", "Stephen K Amos Interview. If you are dissatisfied with the response provided you can contact IPSO here. In 2010, Amos's own show was launched, a combination of stand up, sketches, and guest performers (who for the most part had not fully broken into television comedy), simply entitled The Stephen K Amos Show. I left home early and didn’t ask them for anything – no money, no support, nothing. The crowd-pleasing comedy juggernaut that is Stephen K Amos is currently on tour with Bouquets And Brickbats, a show about personal loss and the miserable state of the planet. In January 2010, he was a celebrity guest team captain on What Do Kids Know? I don’t do what’s perceived on the mainstream as gay comedy. I just want to have a laugh.”. The things they said, it was clearly a kind of envelope to protect us, but it came out wrong. He was often in trouble for antics such as talking in class and giving everyone unflattering nicknames. Who are married. To my twin sister, have a great birthday week. For me, that is a bit weird. “When you’re comfortable with who you are, that’s when you can express what you are. We are still not identical. When she found a room in London, she offered him a job as her compere. Thankfully, we never seem to run out of material! We saw family members we’d only ever heard of. In February 2013, Amos presented another series of this programme, where guests on the programme included Fred MacAulay, Angela Barnes and Greg Proops. “My mum was an amazing cook but I can only do spag bol, but on that show I learned that cooking chocolate needs sugar as it is bitter.’’, The comedian agreed to play Nelson Mandela in a Sports Relief programme when the England Rugby Squad were playing in South Africa. Amos hosted, and performed a short set on the main stage at London's Gay Pride parade on 3 June 2010. It was the final run of my show and afterwards I couldn’t speak, but in a weird way I want this new show to honour her and another family friend I lost. Depression. We have to weave stuff into the live show. One was his glamorous next-door-neighbour, Fola. At one show, one lad felt confident to tell me at being out and proud at the age of 15; that's something I couldn't have done.

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