Ata Demirer is a Turkish

Turkish people

Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

 stand-up comedian

Stand-up comedy

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 and actor

Actor

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. Famous for his role as Volkan in Avrupa Yakası

Avrupa Yakasi

Avrupa Yakası was a popular Turkish sitcom created and written by Gülse Birsel and produced by Sinan Çetin which aired on ATV Turkey from January 11, 2004 to June 24, 2009. It was recorded in Plato Film studios in Nişantaşı district of Istanbul...

, a TV series on ATV Turkey

ATV Turkey

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. Upon leaving the show for a couple seasons, he is now back on the cast. Alongside his roles on TV, he is also one of the best contemporary Turkish stand up comedians.

Career

In April 2007, Ata Demirer started doing a tour of his new stand-up show "Ata Demirer Show". He performed various successive shows in Holland, Germany

Germany

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 and France

France

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. His new show was very well received and his tour was very successful.

Ata Demirer is famous for his celebrity impressions. The impressions of Bülent Ersoy

Bülent Ersoy

Bülent Ersoy is a transgender Turkish celebrity and popular singer of Ottoman classical music. Over the years, Ersoy has become a symbol for the increased tolerance for LGBT figures in Turkish media....

, Kadir İnanır

Kadir Inanir

Kadir İnanır is a popular Turkish film actor and director.- Biography :İnanır was born in 1949 in Fatsa, a town in Ordu province of Turkey. He acted in forty-three films since 1967 and appeared on television in "Bütün Çocuklarım" as Ali Yahya in 2004...

 and Emrah

Emrah

Emrah is a Turkish given name for males. People named Emrah include:* Emrah Eren, Turkish footballer* Emrah İpek, Turkish pop singer* Emrah Kiraz, Turkish footballer* Emrah Yucel, Turkish film artist...

 are especially liked by his fans, getting roaring applause and laughs by the mere mention of these names in his stand-up shows.

In his stand-up shows Ata regularly jokes about his weight, in one show saying "In my childhood I was never able to play hide and seek. You could always see some part of me wherever I hid. At one point the other kids used me to hide behind."

Works

Films:

• "Neredesin Firuze" (2003)
• "Vizontele Tuuba
  Vizontele Tuuba
  Vizontele Tuuba is a 2004 Turkish comedy-drama film, written and directed by Yılmaz Erdoğan, based on the writer-director's childhood memories of the last summer of his childhood in village in 1980...
  
  " (2004)
• "Kısık Ateşte 15 Dakika" (2006)
• "Osmanlı Cumhuriyeti" (2008)
• "Eyyvah Eyvah" (2010
  Turkish films of 2010
  A list of films produced by the Turkish film industry in Turkey in 2010.-Highest-grossing films:-Events:JanuaryFebruaryMarch-July to December:-References:...
  
  )
• "Eyyvah Eyvah 2
  Eyyvah Eyvah 2
  Eyyvah Eyvah 2 is a 2011 Turkish comedy film, directed by Hakan Algül, starring Ata Demirer as a young clarinet player who struggles to win back his fiance after she moves to a small village in the Turkish countryside...
  
  " (2011
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  A list of films produced by the Turkish film industry in Turkey in 2011.-Highest-grossing films:-Events:JanuaryA list of films produced by the Turkish film industry in Turkey in 2011.-Highest-grossing films:-Events:January...
  
  )

TV Series:

• "Avrupa Yakası
  Avrupa Yakasi
  Avrupa Yakası was a popular Turkish sitcom created and written by Gülse Birsel and produced by Sinan Çetin which aired on ATV Turkey from January 11, 2004 to June 24, 2009. It was recorded in Plato Film studios in Nişantaşı district of Istanbul...
  
  "

Shows:

• "Tek Kişilik Dev Kadro" (2000)
• "Ata Demirer Show" (2000)
• "Korsan TV" (2001)

TV Programs:

• "Korsan TV"
• "Hacıyatmaz"

Albums:

• "Makara"
• "Exit (Maxi Single)"

External links

A YouTube clip Ata Demirer's Biography