Adam Buxton

Adam Offord Buxton (born 7 June 1969) is an English comedian, writer, podcaster, and actor. Buxton is one half of the duo Adam and Joe, along with filmmaker Joe Cornish. They are best known for presenting Adam and Joe on BBC Radio 6 Music (2007–2009, 2011) and The Adam and Joe Show on Channel 4 (1996–2001).

For the football player, see Adam Buxton (footballer).

Adam Buxton
Buxton at dConstruct in 2013
Born
Adam Offord Buxton

(1969-06-07) 7 June 1969
Shepherd's Bush, London, England
OccupationActor, comedian, writer, broadcaster
Years active1995–present
Websitehttp://adam-buxton.co.uk

Buxton is the host of The Adam Buxton Podcast, where he interviews comedians, authors, musicians, and celebrities. He has also guested on various comedy panel shows including Would I Lie To You?, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

Early life and education

Buxton was born in London, and spent some of his childhood in Wales. His father was Nigel Buxton, known as a travel writer and wine critic and later to appear on The Adam and Joe Show as "Baaad Dad".[1] His mother, Valerie (née Birrell),[2] was Chilean.[3] Buxton was educated at Windlesham House School then Westminster School along with his friends Joe Cornish and Louis Theroux.[4] According to an interview with The Guardian newspaper, he attended the University of Warwick for two terms, before dropping out to study sculpture at Cheltenham College of Art,[5] now part of the University of Gloucestershire.[6]

Career
Buxton at Glastonbury Festival in 2009

With Joe Cornish

Buxton's first television appearance was in an episode of Channel 4's Takeover TV.[7] In 1995, he hosted the show itself, and following this he and Joe Cornish, along with World of Wonder, created The Adam and Joe Show for the same channel.[8] It ran for four series from 1996 to 2001.[9] In 1999, The Adam and Joe Book, a spin-off book written by Buxton and Cornish, was published.[10]

His work with Cornish has extended beyond their Channel 4 series, with the pair presenting radio shows on Xfm and later BBC Radio 6 Music, which won a Silver Sony Award for Best Entertainment Programme in 2012.[7][11]

Solo work

Buxton co-wrote and acted in the Channel 4 mini-series The Last Chancers, broadcast in December 2004.[12] In 2005 he moved from screen to stage, performing character-driven comedy at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival, with a show entitled I, Pavel for which he grew a large beard.[13]

Buxton appeared as a future version of himself in the BBC Two comedy series Time Trumpet, which began a six-part series in August 2006.[14] In 2007, he portrayed journalist Tim Messenger in Edgar Wright's film Hot Fuzz. He has also appeared in the film Stardust, deputizing for Noel Fielding, who was ill at the time of production.[15] Buxton appeared in the BBC Three comedy sketch show Rush Hour, which premièred on 19 March 2007.[16]

Buxton has collaborated on several occasions with the band Radiohead. He assisted with a 2007 webcast from their studio,[17] directed the video for their 2008 single Jigsaw Falling into Place,[5] and created a video vignette for their 2016 album A Moon Shaped Pool.[18] In January 2010, he appeared in the BBC2 comedy The Persuasionists.[19] He also featured in the film Son of Rambow as a teacher.[20] Buxton released a number of popular videos on YouTube, and was commissioned to produce a pilot programme for the BBC based around work of this kind. This was broadcast as MeeBOX on BBC Three in June 2008,[15] but a full series was not commissioned. He guest starred in the 2011 film The External World by David O'Reilly.[21]

In July 2012, Buxton appeared in a TV version of his popular tour Bug on Sky Atlantic, entitled Adam Buxton's BUG.[5] He started performing the show in 2007, and has continued to tour the Bug show[11] as well as hosting it regularly at the BFI in London.[22] He is the narrator of some books available on the Ladybird Classic Me Books iPad app, including Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Three Little Pigs.[23] He has since narrated several other titles on the Me Books app such as The Great Explorer, The Brave Beast and The Lonely Beast by children's illustrator and author Chris Judge.[24] He also appeared in the Doctor Who audio drama The One Doctor by Big Finish Productions.[25]

Buxton has made appearances on Have I Got News for You, Never Mind the Buzzcocks,[11] The IT Crowd, Don't Watch That, Watch This and Look Around You among others.[16] He was also a panellist with Jonathan Ross for the Big Fat Quiz of the '80s.[26] Buxton has guest starred in several episodes of the comedy gameshow mash-up 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown featuring in Dictionary Corner.[11] In 2015 Buxton became the voice of Messy for children's TV animation Messy Goes to Okido which aired on 7 September 2015 on CBeebies.[27] In 2017 Buxton made regular cameo appearances as 'Jarhead' in the revamped version of The Crystal Maze.[28][29] He appeared in the video game Lego City Undercover for Nintendo's Wii U.[30]

Buxton released the audiobook version of his autobiography, Ramble Book, in April 2020, published by HarperCollins.[31]

He provided voice acting roles for the Cartoon Network pilot Beetle + Bean.[32]

The Adam Buxton Podcast

Since September 2015, Buxton has produced The Adam Buxton Podcast, in which he talks to other people, usually comedians. The first series went out weekly in 2015 before a Christmas episode with Joe Cornish, in the style of their BBC Radio 6 show. Guests have included collaborators Louis Theroux, Joe Cornish and Charlie Brooker,[33][34] as well as other public figures such as Jon Ronson, Caitlin Moran, Michael Palin and Brian Eno.[35] It has won a number of awards including Best Online Comedy Talk Show at the Online Radio Awards, Podcast Champion at the British Podcast Awards, and the Internet Award from Chortle.[36]

Personal life

Buxton lives near Norwich with his wife, Sarah, their three children and dog, Rosie.[7][5][37]

References
  1. Freeman, Hadley (14 December 2013). "Comedians and their parents: Adam Buxton and 'Baaadad' Nigel". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  2. "Nigel Buxton, journalist - obituary". 18 December 2015. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  3. Adam and Joe (radio broadcast). BBC Radio 6 Music. 12 September 2009.
  4. Hogan, Michael (25 December 2016). "Forget Christmas TV: Adam and Joe's 20th anniversary reunion podcast is the best present you'll get in 2016". The Telegraph. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  5. Salter, Jessica (14 July 2012). "World of Adam Buxton, comedian and actor". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
  6. Hadley Freeman (15 September 2001). "Trivia pursuits". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 September 2009.
  7. Greenstreet, Rosanna (13 July 2012). "Interview Q&A: Adam Buxton". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
  8. Mumford, Gwilym (15 January 2019). "Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish: how we made The Adam and Joe Show". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  9. Gibsone, Harriet (8 February 2019). "Joe Cornish: 'Adam and I were very competitive in an unhealthy way'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  10. "The Adam And Joe Book Book". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  11. Ganatra, Shilpa (23 July 2016). "Adam Buxton brings David Bowie show to Dublin". The Irish Times. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  12. "Adam Buxton: Chancer of a lifetime". The Independent. 21 December 2004. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  13. "The Edinburgh festival 2005 – Reviews – Comedy – (A) – 11 out of 91".
  14. "Time Trumpet with Armando Iannucci - S1 - Episode 1". Radio Times. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  15. Walker, Esther (27 January 2008). "Close-up: Adam Buxton". The Independent. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  16. Dee, Johnny (6 July 2012). "Six to watch: Adam Buxton". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  17. NME (6 November 2007). "Radiohead set for special webcast?". NME. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  18. Daly, Rhian (27 May 2016). "Radiohead share 'Desert Island Disk' interpretation video by Adam Buxton". NME. Archived from the original on 30 June 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  19. "Last Night's Television: The Persuasionists, BBC2Horizon, BBC2". The Independent. 14 January 2010. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  20. Bradshaw, Peter (3 April 2008). "Son of Rambow". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  21. "Adam Buxton". BFI. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  22. Logan, Brian (17 September 2013). "Adam Buxton – review". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  23. "Sir David Jason joins Adam Buxton and Josie Lawrence for an exciting new update to the award-winning Ladybird Classic Me Books App". Licensing International. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  24. "Made in Me — The Little Interview: Chris Judge". Made in Me. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  25. "027. Doctor Who: The One Doctor - Doctor Who - The Monthly Adventures - Big Finish". www.bigfinish.com. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  26. "The Big Fat Quiz Of The Year The Big Fat Quiz Of The 80s". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  27. "Introducing Messy Goes to OKIDO: Balabalaboomboom!". BBC. 4 September 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  28. "Adam Buxton and Jessica Hynes join Richard Ayoade in Channel 4's Crystal Maze reboot". Radio Times. 12 June 2017. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  29. "Adam Buxton has joined the new series of 'The Crystal Maze'". NME. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  30. Diver, Mike (10 May 2017). "VICE - The License-Free 'Lego City Undercover' Is Full of Great Movie Moments". www.vice.com. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  31. "Early release for Adam Buxton audiobook, recorded remotely | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  32. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9NOz20G-Jo
  33. Griffin, Sarah (10 November 2018). "Podcasts: Adam Buxton". The Irish Times. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  34. Verdier, Hannah (15 September 2016). "The Adam Buxton Podcast: Louis Theroux as you've never heard him before". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  35. Sturges, Fiona (17 April 2017). "Podcasts: Adam Buxton's fascinating exchanges". www.ft.com. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  36. "Pick of the Podcasts: The Adam Buxton Podcast, The Morning After and Beyond Today". The Sunday Post. 2 July 2019. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  37. Keller, David (23 February 2009). "Norfolk home for TV's Adam Buxton". BBC. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
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