Biography

Born in Buckinghamshire in 1979, I’m partially French, partially Australian and mostly confused. I got into acting at an early age, despite attending a school which generally believed that grappling and grunting with a throng of sweaty boys in the rain before taking a bath with them was an entirely more manly pursuit than drama.

It was my university years at Warwick that really saw me develop an interest in this activity (drama, not sweating boys) and might go some way to explain why I was the only student on my Philosophy and Psychology course to (under)achieve a 2.2 – more hilariously known as a ‘Desmond.’

After notching up over a dozen drama productions at university and over 2 essays on logical empiricism, my focus turned to comedy, as a founder member of the sketch group Ubersausage. In 1999 we took our first show to Edinburgh and to our delight, not to mention that of the Students’ Union, which had funded such a potentially disastrous project, met with great critical and commercial success. See Reviews

Ubersausage continued in various guises for three years until the final shows in Edinburgh 2001, when the group went their separate ways. Having already performed stand-up at our cabaret night UberNacht, as well as several open mic spots around the country, I decided to go solo as a comedy perfomer, while still pursuing a career in acting.

Since then I have played a wide variety of theatre roles, both Fringe and West End, appeared on various shows for the BBC and made the obligatory minor appearance on The Bill (as a drug dealer). I also played a minor role in Chris Morris’ Nathan Barley, as well as various characters on The Crunch, a kids' TV show on Nickelodeon, which I also did voiceovers for. See my latest acting CV here.

Since February 2005 I've been running and hosting Falling Down With Laughter in London Bridge with personal showbiz friend Sy Thomas. The club was voted Best Small London Comedy Club in the 2008 Chortle Awards. We've played host to various top-name comics, such as Jack Dee, Sean Lock, Stewart Lee, Richard Herring, Russell Brand, Adam Hills and many more. You can see our line-ups here.

In January 2006 I took part in a documentary which involved driving 4,000 miles from Plymouth to the Gambia with aformentioned comedian Sy Thomas, in a crap car. You can see more about this in the News section.

Recently I've taught stand-up on the City Lit course in London, and taken up photography. You can see some samples of my work here: www.alexisdubus.co.uk

In 2008 I took my first solo show, A R#ddy Brief History Of Swearing to the Edinburgh Fringe, where it received rave reviews and won the Three Weeks Editors' Award as one of their Top 10 Fringe Experiences. The show's since been performed in London, Rome, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Leicester, Brighton and Hanoi.

At the Edinburgh Fringe 2009 I repeated the Swearing show, and took up my first solo character show, Marcel Lucont: Sexual Metro, which received some great reviews and will be heading to Melbourne Comedy Festival and possibly New Zealand Comedy Festival in 2010. I also played a role in Mark Watson's The Hotel which was awarded a Fringe First by The Scotsman and was a truly brilliant experience to be a part of.

Anyway, that’s me really. Thanks for getting this far down the page.

R.I.P. Tom Cocklin – November 2004 – who taught me so much about comedy, blue whales and clowns.