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Robert Newman was born on 7 July, 1964, is a British comedian, born 1964. Discover Robert Newman's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 59 years old?

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Occupation Comedian Author Actor
Age 59 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 7 July 1964
Birthday 7 July
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1964

Robert Newman (born 7 July 1964) is an English comedian, author and political activist.

1980

Newman began his comedy career as an impressionist in the late 1980s before gaining fame when he appeared alongside fellow Cambridge alumni David Baddiel, Hugh Dennis and Steve Punt in the BBC radio and TV programme The Mary Whitehouse Experience (1989–92).

The title referred to the main campaigner for "moral decency" on television, Mary Whitehouse.

1990

Newman found mainstream fame with The Mary Whitehouse Experience before forming a successful partnership with one of the programme's other comedians, David Baddiel, in the early 1990s.

With The Mary Whitehouse Experience Newman and Baddiel had become "unlikely pin-ups as, in the early 1990s, comedy was being fêted as 'the new rock and roll'," leading to their own series, Newman and Baddiel in Pieces (1993).

The partnership with Baddiel was widely reported as being fraught with tension.

Unlike most double acts, their shows (both on TV and stage) were characterised by the two alternately delivering monologues, rarely appearing together except in sketches (most famously, History Today).

During the "Live and in Pieces" tour, relations deteriorated further and the Wembley Arena show was their last appearance together.

After the break-up, the two men took wildly differing career paths.

While Baddiel became part of the "new lad" phenomenon of the mid-1990s, fronting shows like Fantasy Football League, Newman largely disappeared from public life, reappearing with solo work marked by a clear social conscience and anti-establishment views.

1991

Newman co-wrote The Mary Whitehouse Experience Encyclopedia (1991), with David Baddiel, Hugh Dennis, and Steve Punt.

1993

In 1993, Newman and Baddiel, supported by Sean Lock, became the first comedians to play and sell out the 12,000-seat Wembley Arena in London.

Newman's first speaking appearance was with Third World First (now known as People and Planet), the student political organisation.

Newman was adopted into a working-class family who lived in a Hertfordshire village.

His adoptive father died when he was nine.

Newman attended a comprehensive school, received poor A-level grades and was not offered a place at university until two years later, when he was admitted to Selwyn College, Cambridge, to read English on the strength of an essay about T. S. Eliot.

Newman has worked as a farmhand, warehouse-man, house-painter, teacher, mail-sorter, social worker and mover.

1994

He has written four novels: Dependence Day (1994); Manners (1998); The Fountain at the Centre of the World (2003); and The Trade Secret (2013).

1999

He covered the anti-globalisation Seattle protests of 1999 for the UK's Channel 4 News.

He has been politically active with Reclaim the Streets, the Liverpool Dockers, Indymedia and People's Global Action.

His later work is characterised by a very strong political element and parallels the work of contemporaries such as Mark Thomas.

2001

In 2001, with actress Emma Thompson, he called for a boycott of the Perrier Comedy Award, because Perrier is owned by Nestlé who market powdered baby milk in developing countries; an alternative competition called the Tap Water Awards was set up the following year.

2003

In 2003, Newman toured with From Caliban to the Taliban, which was released on CD and DVD.

2005

In 2005, the show Apocalypso Now or, from P45 to AK47, How to Grow the Economy with the Use of War debuted at the Bongo Club during the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Apocalypso Now toured nationally, sometimes as part of a double-bill where Newman was joined by Mark Thomas.

The show was filmed at the Hoxton Hall in Hoxton, east London and shown on More4 under the title A History of Oil, with a later release on CD and DVD.

A mixture of stand-up comedy and introductory lecture on geopolitics and peak oil, in Apocalypso Now Newman argues that twentieth-century Western foreign policy, including World War I, should be seen as a continuous struggle by the West to control Middle Eastern oil.

Newman draws from Richard Heinberg's book The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies as source material for portions of the show dealing with peak oil.

2006

In 2006, Newman performed a new show, No Planet B or, The History of the World Backwards, at the Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn, north-west London.

2007

In 2007, the BBC commissioned a six-part series, The History of the World Backwards based on No Planet B, for transmission on BBC Four.

The script of the stage version show is accessible on Newman's official website.

2008

Newman's process of writing the book was the subject of a 2008 BBC Two television documentary entitled Scribbling.

2015

In 2015, his BBC Radio 4 programme Robert Newman's Entirely Accurate Encyclopaedia of Evolution attempted to challenge some of the concepts of Richard Dawkins's book The Selfish Gene.

In 2015 his book The Entirely Accurate Encyclopaedia of Evolution, based on his stand-up show "Robert Newman's New Theory of Evolution", was published by Freight Books.

2017

It won the Best Scripted Comedy with a Live Audience award at the 2017 BBC Audio Drama Awards.

In April 2017 his book Neuropolis is published by HarperCollins.

Dwight Garner, an editor of The New York Times Book Review, reviewed The Fountain at the Centre of the World favourably, saying "I wouldn't be surprised, in fact, if [it] became the talismanic Catch-22 of the anti-globalisation protest movement, the fictional complement to Naomi Klein's influential exposé No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies".