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Simon Benjamin Brodkin (born 29 September 1977) is an English
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, performing both on the
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circuit and in
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series. He is best known for playing a cheerful
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character called Lee Nelson, but also performs as other comedy characters, such as a Liverpudlian footballer called Jason Bent. Performing solo stand-up since 2004, he has also written for and appeared on the television shows '' Al Murray's Multiple Personality Disorder'' in 2009, ''
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'' in 2010 and '' Lee Nelson's Well Funny People'' in 2013. Brodkin is known for taking part in
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as his characters at public events, heckling public figures such as
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,
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and
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.


Early life

Brodkin was born in
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,
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on 29 September 1977. Brodkin attended the independent
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,
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, in the
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. Brodkin studied medicine at the
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, graduating in 2001. He practised medicine in Manchester city hospitals until 2007, when he began performing stand-up comedy full-time.


Career


Stand-up

Brodkin performed his first solo comedy show at the
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in 2006, titled ''Simon Brodkin: Everyone But Himself''.Comedy CV of Simon Brodkin
Comedycv.co.uk. Retrieved on 21 December 2016.
In his Lee Nelson
stand-up Stand-up comedy is a comedic performance to a live audience in which the performer addresses the audience directly from the stage. The performer is known as a comedian, a comic or a stand-up. Stand-up comedy consists of one-liners, stories, ...
routine, Brodkin's character typically interacts with his audience, telling them about his life, asking them questions, then replying with responses that reflect his world view, his own ignorance or his own stereotypically antisocial attitudes. His act is peppered with slang words. In character as Lee Nelson, he briefly stood as a candidate in the
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. He withdrew because the BBC would not have been able to broadcast his shows during the electoral campaign due to their code of impartiality. Brodkin also performs a selection of other characters, including Jason Bent, an unintelligent Premiership footballer with a
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accent. Other characters have included the sleazy and incompetent Dr. Bob. In recent years Brodkin has been performing stand-up as himself and is currently on tour with his new show ''Troublemaker'' until the end of 2021, with extra dates added for 2022.


Television

Brodkin began appearing on television in 2003, in a series of shorts entitled ''From Baghdad To Balham'' on
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, playing a recently arrived Iraqi asylum seeker, and twice on ''
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'' on
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. In 2005, Brodkin appeared as Nelson in three episodes of Channel 4's ''The Morning After Show'', alongside fellow guest Bob Mugabe. In 2007, Brodkin wrote for and appeared on
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's
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prime time sketch show '' Al Murray's Multiple Personality Disorder'', where he appeared playing his characters of Jason Bent and Lee Nelson, as well as alongside Murray in sketches about mobile phone shop assistants. In 2008, Brodkin appeared as Dr. Omprakash and Nelson in the
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comedy show ''
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''. In 2011, Brodkin appeared as Lee Nelson in 28 January episode of
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's ''Comedy Rocks with Jason Manford'' and in Heat 3 of ''
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'' on BBC One. In 2011, Brodkin starred as Clinton Faberge in Channel 4's short-lived comedy strand Another One Bites the Crust. Also in 2011, on 11 November, he appeared as Lee Nelson in
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's '' Live at the Apollo'' Series seven, episode two, alongside
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and Ed Byrne. In 2012, Brodkin returned as Nelson on the judging panel in Heat 4 of ''
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'' on BBC One, along with
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and
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. In 2013, Brodkin again returned as Nelson in Heat 3 of ''
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'' on BBC One, dancing with
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duo
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. He won the "judges' vote", thus performing again in the final. However, he did not win. His actual final position is unknown as the unsuccessful finalists were called in "no specific order". In December 2013 Brodkin performed stand-up on
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's Christmas Show on BBC One.


''Lee Nelson's Well Good Show''

In 2009, Brodkin was commissioned by the
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to write his own show for
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. Titled ''
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'', it was broadcast from 10 June 2010 on
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in the 10.30pm slot. It features Brodkin in character in a studio setting, but also features television sketches of his other characters. The show was commissioned for a second series, which aired on 25 August 2011.


Reception

Brodkin has won several competitions and awards for his work, including Brighton's
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comedy competition and The Writers' Guild Award for Best Newcomer in Edinburgh for his show ''Everyone But Himself''. In reviewing his Nelson stand-up character in 2009, James Kettle of ''
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'' stated that, in comparison to
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's aggressive
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, and
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's
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, Brodkin's portrayal has "a three-dimensional personality" and is a "gentler, more likeable soul, with a dopily comprehensive lack of self-awareness", and that in playing the '
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', "no one's done it quite like Simon Brodkin".


Pranks

Many of Brodkin's pranks were featured in a TV programme ''Britain's Greatest Hoaxer'' which was shown on Channel 4 on 7 February 2017.


Football

On 16 March 2013, Brodkin, in character as Jason Bent, ran onto the pitch at
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and attempted to warm up with the
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team ahead of their Premier League match with Everton. He was arrested and charged with pitch encroachment contrary to the Football (Offences) Act 1991. When the case came to court, the judge agreed to the charge being withdrawn and Brodkin was given a six-month conditional caution for the incident. In 2014, dressed as Jason Bent in a smart suit, he briefly mixed in with the England World Cup squad at
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before being removed by police. On 20 July 2015, Brodkin gatecrashed a press conference at the headquarters of the football governing body
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in
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, Switzerland amidst the organisation's corruption scandal. He walked onto the stage in character as Jason Bent and threw a wad of
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bills worth $600 over the FIFA president
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, claiming that it was part of a bid to bring the
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to
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. Brodkin was promptly led out of the conference by security personnel, and Blatter temporarily postponed the
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. Brodkin was arrested and charged with trespassing.


Television talent shows

On 8 November 2014, during
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' performance on ''
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'', Brodkin as Nelson invaded the stage pretending to perform alongside them. He was escorted away by the show's floor manager. In January 2016, Brodkin auditioned on ''
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'', dressed as a
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, and pretended to be an awful rapper named Steven Goldblatt, as a way to prove his opinion that untalented acts do well on the show. He was selected for a Judge's Audition at the
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in London, where he performed a rap about Britain named "Red, White and Blue". Proving his point, even though Brodkin was deliberately not talented, the judges put him through.


Politics

On 24 June 2016 at the re-opening of
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's Trump Turnberry golf resort, Brodkin hijacked Trump's speech with Nazi
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s. The US presidential candidate was about to take to the podium at his Turnberry resort when Brodkin interrupted, dispersed the balls amongst the podium, and began giving out balls to the crowd. On 4 October 2017, Brodkin interrupted Prime Minister
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's speech to the
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conference, handing her a mocked-up P45 form (given in the UK when a person's employment is terminated) and telling her "Boris asked me to give this to you."—at a time when it was much speculated that
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, then
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, might seek to replace May as Conservative Party leader (as he later did). He then went over to Johnson and gave him the 'thumbs up' gesture before he was removed from the venue. Brodkin had obtained the appropriate documents to attend the event, which led to calls to revise security measures.


Other

In November 2012, during a signing at
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on
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in London, Brodkin performed a prank as Nelson in which he "stole" his own DVD and was chased by an actor dressed as a policeman. A real policeman believed it was an actual theft and arrested Brodkin. At
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, Brodkin as Nelson interrupted a performance by
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by running onto the stage and proceeding to join in with the performance. He was removed promptly by security. Brodkin said " est hadinterrupted Taylor Swift at an awards ceremony, saying Beyoncé should have won, so I thought it was legitimate", and that he was disappointed Kanye didn't enter into the spirit. In March 2016, Brodkin invaded a speech by
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at the
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. He was seen dressed as a VW engineer attempting to add a "cheat box" to the car (a reference to the
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) whilst VW board member Jürgen Stackmann was making a speech. "No-one is going to find out about this one," Brodkin told the audience. He was subsequently removed by security before the speech continued. On 6 September 2016, Brodkin "renamed"
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's £100m super yacht ''Lionheart'' to ''BHS Destroyer'', in reference to the recent collapse of the BHS department stores of which Green was previously the owner. Whilst the boat was moored in Monaco, Brodkin and a small crew hired a small dinghy and, unnoticed by the yacht's crew, sailed out to it. Unfurling a banner reading "BHS Destroyer", he attached it over the yacht's actual name. Brodkin later posted on
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: "Good of Sir Philip Green to rename his £100 million yacht to something more appropriate. I was glad to help."


Stand-up DVDs

*''Lee Nelson Live'' (19 November 2012)


Personal life

Brodkin is
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.


References


External links

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