Lucas Edward Britton Mockridge (born 21 March 1989) is a comedian and television presenter living in Germany. He holds Canadian and Italian citizenship.

Early life

Mockridge is son of the Canadian actor and comedian

Bill Mockridge William Mockridge (born 28 July 1947, Toronto) is a Canadian-German actor and Kabarett performer. He is the founder of the Springmaus Theatre in Bonn. He became known to a broad public through his portrayal of Erich Schiller in the WDR series ''L ...

and the Italian actress and comedian Margie Kinsky.Westfälische Nachrichten: ''Der blaublütige Comedian: Lucke Mockridge hat adelige Vorfahren'', Münster, Münster, Martin Kalitschke, 4 March 2014 He was raised in

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and has two older and three younger brothers. His siblings are all involved in the show business, as directors, musicians, singers, actors and models. One of his brothers is actor Jeremy Mockridge. Luke Mockridge lives in

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. His godfather was

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Career

upMockridge at NightWash Comedy in Cologne Upon completing his school finals ("

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"), Mockridge undertook a university programme in media and communications science in Canada, England and Germany, from which he obtained a bachelor's degree in 2012. General-Anzeiger Bonn
''Bonner Comedian kommt mit seinem Programm in die Springmaus: Interview mit Luke Mockridge'' (In German)
Bonn, Kathrin-Alessa Weber, Nadja Berghahn During his studies in Canada, Mockridge made an appearance in the ''

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Stage Programme'' as ''Chad''.

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: ''Die allerbeste Sebastian Winkler Show'', 21 November 2013 Since 2012, Mockridge has been touring through Germany with the solo show ''I'm Lucky, I'm Luke!''. In German national television, he has made regular appearances at ''

NightWash ''NightWash'' is a German television comedy show in which young artists and new stand-up comedy talents have the opportunity to perform in front of an audience with their program, typically lasting for 7–10 minutes. The series was created by, ...

'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''RTL Comedy Grand Prix'', and ''Fun(k)haus''. Mockridge is the host of ''1LIVE Hörsaal-Comedy'' and works as writer of '' Switch reloaded''. In September 2013, he launched his own comedy show on

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and

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called ''Occupy School''. Since 26 September 2013, Mockridge took over the role as presenter at the TV show ''

'' for

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. Prior to this time, he had been employed by ''NightWash'' as intern and author.Münstersche Zeitung
''Interview mit Luke Mockridge: "Meine Mutter sagt, ich sei eine männliche Schlampe"''
, Münster-Kinderhaus, Andreas Jankowiak, 5 March 2014 Moreover, Mockridge moderated before an audience of 7,000 people on 14 October 2013 the ''1LIVE Comedynacht XXL'' in the sold-out

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in Cologne. During 2013, he also appeared for a period of time non-regularly at the

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channel ''Ponk''. In 2014, Mockridge launched the YouTube channel ''Snoozzze'', together with German Youtubers Julian "Julez" Weißbach and Joyce Ilg. In January 2014, he travelled to New York City with

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and his show ''

'' on

ProSieben ProSieben (, ''sieben'' is German for "seven"; often stylized as Pro7) is a German free-to-air television network owned by ProSiebenSat.1 Media. It was launched on 1 January 1989. It is Germany's second-largest privately owned television company ...

and shot continuously for six days live for the

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. In 2016, it was announced that Mockridge would be a host on the

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reality show ''

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''. After Mockridge retired in September 2021 due to allegations of sexualized violence for an indefinite period of time, he resigned in December 2021 as part of an

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videos, inspired by the movie

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, and announced that the tour ''Welcome to Luckyland'' would continue the following year.

Awards

In 2013, Mockridge was awarded "Pascha des Monats" by ''EMMA'' magazine for making so called "Herrenwitze" (nearest equivalent: "sexist jokes") during a stand-up act. Allegedly making fun of his ex-girlfriend was used as the reason for the prize. The programme in which the act occurred, claims, however, that the jokes were taken out of context. In 2013, Mockridge was awarded the

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as ''Best Newcomer''.

References

External links

Personal website
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