Biography
Alexis was made in Buckinghamshire in the year 1979.
While studying Philosophy & Psychology at the University of Warwick he became a founder member of the student sketch group Ubersausage. At the Edinburgh Festival that year the group got some great critical acclaim and got well and truly had by Sacha Baron Cohen in the guise of Borat.
Yep, you can still find it somewhere on the web…
Still, you can't read sarcasm on posters, so "'Greatest comedians in Britain' - Sacha Baron Cohen" was used in big bold type the following year.
And where is he now eh? ...
Yeah.
Anyway, here's a brief timeline of comedy things Alexis has done that he is proud of since then:
1999 - UBERSAUSAGE (sketch group) - Edinburgh Fringe
2001 - UBERNACHT - Edinburgh Fringe
2003 - Started on London comedy circuit
2005-11 - Co-promoter: FALLING DOWN WITH LAUGHTER COMEDY CLUB
2008-10 - CAT OF THE WEEK (sketch group) - London circuit, Edinburgh Fringe, Leicester Comedy Festival
2008-10 - A R*DDY BRIEF HISTORY OF SWEARING - Edinburgh Fringe, Cheltenham Literature Festival, Adelaide Fringe, Melbourne Comedy Festival, Leicester Comedy Festival, Sydney Comedy Festival
2009 - MARCEL LUCONT: SEXUAL METRO - Adelaide Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe, New Zealand Comedy Festival, Leicester Comedy Festival
2009 - THE HOTEL - Edinburgh Fringe
2009 - MARCEL LUCONT'S CABARET FANTASTIQUE - Edinburgh Fringe, Last Days Of Decadence
2010 - A SURPRISINGLY TASTEFUL SHOW ABOUT NUDITY - Adelaide Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe, Leicester Comedy Festival, Brighton Fringe
2010 - MARCEL LUCONT'S CABARET FANTASTIQUE - Edinburgh Fringe, London
2010-12 - MARCEL LUCONT: ENCORE - Edinburgh Fringe, Adelaide Fringe, Melbourne Comedy Festival, New Zealand Comedy Festival, Sydney Comedy Festival, Brighton Comedy Festival, Leicester Comedy Festival, Fringe World Perth
2011 - BOOK: MARCEL LUCONT - WHAT WE FRENCH THINK OF YOU BRITISH... AND WHERE YOU ARE GOING WRONG (New Holland Publishers)
2011 - MARCEL LUCONT ETC. - A CHAT SHOW - Adelaide Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe
2011-12 - ALTERNATIVE COMEDY MEMORIAL SOCIETY (board member), New Red Lion Theatre
2011 - THE HORNE SECTION - Edinburgh Fringe, Criterion Theatre
2011 - SET LIST, Edinburgh Fringe, Soho Theatre London
2012 - CARS AND GIRLS - Edinburgh Fringe, Bedford Fringe, Buxton Fringe
2012 - MARCEL LUCONT'S CABARET FANTASTIQUE - Spiegeltent, Fringe World Perth
2012 - MARCEL LUCONT: GALLIC SYMBOL - Edinburgh Fringe, New Zealand Comedy Festival, Brighton Comedy Festival
2012 - NEW ZEALAND COMEDY FESTIVAL COMEDY CONVOY TOUR
2012 - MARCEL LUCONT'S CABARET FANTASTIQUE - Edinburgh Fringe
2012 - RUSSELL HOWARD'S GOOD NEWS - BBC3 - standup guest
2013 - SET LIST - Sky Atlantic - performer
2013 - PRAMFACE - BBC3 - concierge
2013 - LIVE AT THE ELECTRIC - BBC3 - performer
Awards
Winner - Fringe World Award - Best Comedy Show 2013
Winner - Adelaide Fringe Weekly Awards - Adelaide Fringe 2013
Winner - Amused Moose Comedy Award - Best Comedy Show 2012, Edinburgh Fringe
Nominee - Best International Show 2012, New Zealand Comedy Festival
KeepingUpWithNZ - Best International Show 2012, New Zealand Comedy Festival
Nominee - Best Comedy Show 2012, Fringe World Perth
Spank! Award - Best Headliner 2010, Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe
Winner - Buxton Fringe Award 2009 - Best Comedy Individual
The Scotsman Fringe First Award 2009 (as part of 'The Hotel')
Three Weeks Editors' Choice Award - Top 10 Edinburgh Fringe Experiences 2008
Chortle Award - Best Small London Comedy Venue 2008 (promoter)
TV Appearances
Pramface / BBC / BBC3
Set List / Princess Productions / Sky Atlantic
Russell Howard's Good News / Avalon / BBC3
End Of The Road / Swift Films / Discovery Channel
Flashprank / MTV
Visa Comedy Gala / TV3 (New Zealand)
AotearoHA Comedy Carnival / TV3 (New Zealand)
The Crunch / Nickelodeon
Nathan Barley / Talkback / C4
Garth Marenghi / Avalon (pilot)
The Bill / Talkback / ITV
MTV On Call / MTV
Let's Write…Non-Fiction / BBC
Bring It On / BBC
International Gigs
The Comedy Store, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Hi-Fi Bar, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Rhino Room, Adelaide, AUSTRALIA
The Movie Bar / Studio Smijeha, Zagreb, CROATIA
Prague Fringe, CZECH REPUBLIC
Kino Sõprus, Tallinn, ESTONIA
Apollo, Helsinki, FINLAND
Laughing Horse, Nice / Antibes / Monaco, FRANCE
Toomler, Amsterdam, HOLLAND
Maastricht University, HOLLAND
Budapest Comedy Club, HUNGARY
Laughter Lounge, Dublin, IRELAND
Laughter Lounge, JERSEY
AotearoHA Comedy Carnival Tour, NEW ZEALAND
The Classic, Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
San Francisco Bath House, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND
Warsaw Comedy Club, POLAND
Blu Jazz / DXO / Stereolab, SINGAPORE
Cvetlicarna / Satchmo Club, Ljubljana, SLOVENIA
Giggling Guiri, Barcelona and Madrid, SPAIN
Laughter Lounge, Barcelona, SPAIN
The Comedy Store, Los Angeles, USA
Magnet Theatre, New York, USA
Cinematheque, Hanoi, VIETNAM
Alternative Biography
Alexis Dubus was raised by swans following a boating accident on the Thames when all two of his parents dissolved.
Alexis was possessed by demons in 1993, and again by mistake in 1996. Fortunately they were the kind that don't like to make too much of a fuss.
Alexis Dubus is Latin for "Illiterate Mace-Sheath."
Alexis was conscripted into comedy during the famous worldwide comedian shortage of 2001. Due to the smallprint he is contracted to continue this profession until the day of his death, or the day he makes a Milton Keynes audience laugh, whichever comes first.
Alexis Dubus is 62% water.
Alexis can clap his hands no more than 3,600 times in his life or he will perish.
Alexis believes that every time you sneeze an angel gets mumps.
Alexis is a proud part-time member of the Meat Percussion Orchestra Of Great Britain.
Alexis holds the world record for steampopping.
Alexis Dubus is the current heir to the throne of Utopia.
Alexis' first solo show in 2007 was deemed 'not a success.' In fact, "Alexis Dubus Kicks The Piss Out Of A Grouse" was stopped after 17 minutes, for some reasons.
Alexis Dubus would never have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space. No one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinized, as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets and yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this Earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely, they drew their plans against us.
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