Trevor Lock
Encyclopedia
Trevor Lock is an English
comedian
, actor
and playwright
. He is noted for the circuitous and surreal
nature of his stand-up comedy
.
. He grew up in Bugbrooke
, Northamptonshire
where he attended Campion School
and then studied Philosophy
at University College London
.
and Russell Brand
and made appearances at the Edinburgh Fringe. A founder member and co-host of the comedy cabaret Kool Eddy's in London, he took the show to the Edinburgh Fringe in 1998. In 1999 Lock appeared in Number One Show with Daniel Kitson and Andrew Maxwell at The Gilded Balloon
.
In 2006 he performed a one-off hour of stand-up Edinburgh Fringe show, When I was a Little Girl - The Very Best of Trevor Lock, at the Gilded Balloon Teviot Wine Bar, Edinburgh and appeared in Cloud Cuckooland, a work-in-progress for a forthcoming BBC Radio show with Russell Brand and Matt Morgan, at the Smirnoff 'Underbelly', Cowgate. Trevor also supported Russell Brand on a number of dates for his stand-up show Shame. In November 2007 Trevor addressed the Oxford Union on The Meaning of Life in the same week as the British National Party (BNP). He disproved Descartes' maxim "Cogito ergo sum
by tipping a glass of water over his head. In 2009, Trevor Lock performed a warm up show for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival at a fundraiser for Boxmoor Cricket Club. He had two shows in the 2009 Edinburgh fringe; a stand up show called Some Kind of Fool and a play titled The One and the Many
Lock presents a live comedy night ‘Trevor Lock’s Philosophy Society’ at the Ku Bar in Lisle Street near Leicester Square
. In early 2011 Lock revealed plans to tour the UK with a series of gigs held exclusively in people's livingrooms called Live In My Living Room.
. In 1999, he performed his play Friday Night At The End Of The World at the Edinburgh Fringe. Lock returned to the Fringe in 2000 with two plays, There's Something You Should Know starring Russell Brand
and All By Myself which also featured Brand as the voice of a New-Yorker TV set. He got 5-star reviews for his play What You Really Want at the Pleasance in 2001.
He has also written and performed two afternoon plays for BBC Radio 4
. Travel Sick (2005) was written with Sem Devillart and is a romantic comedy about an Englishman's adventures in the Andes pursuing a mysterious Peruvian woman he fell for in London. Something You Should Know (2004) was adapted by Lock and Devillart from their stage play of the same name that starred Russell Brand at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2000. It is a magical realist romantic comedy about a man who, whilst waiting for the fact of his untimely death to sink in and finally 'hit him', accidentally starts a relationship with his unrequited first love.
and Matt Morgan
on Brand's Saturday night BBC Radio 2 show
, and appeared alongside the pair on Brand's Sunday morning show on BBC 6 Music
. He was often referred to by the nickname 'Cocky Locky'.
Trevor was often mocked by his co-hosts for comedic purposes. Themes that these mockings took includes Lock being cruel to animals, several of his stories involving a foot coming through a ceiling and lying. The 6 Music shows would usually take on a different theme each week, for instance one week the theme was "What Have I Done To Deserve This?" Lock told a story of being caught accidentally drowning a rodent
by a vicar
. The trio would regularly tease one another about these absurd anecdotes. The show also featured "Trevor's Sonic Enigma" which was renamed by Matt and Russell "Trevor done a Noise". This was meant to be a short clip of sound effects and voices (all done by Lock) meant to suggest the title of a song. These enigmas were notable for being misleading and confusing as well as very long, winners were invited to join the presenters in the studio the next week. The other item was "Challenge Trevor" in which Trevor was set a list of undesirable challenges by the listeners. These went from eating lemons to serenading Noel Gallagher
with an Oasis
song in Lock's Elvis Presley voice.
A running joke was Lock being told by Brand to "EAT YOUR FUDGE!". This catchphrase stemmed from a particular broadcast when Brand presented him with large quantities of the foodstuff (in a short-lived attempt to "be nice" to him). This resulted in Lock feeling ill, and the catchphrase was continued for their duration on 6 Music and people went as far to shout out the phrase at his stand-up shows. On March 10, 2007, it was announced that he had left the show in order to pursue his own projects, reportedly his own pilot for BBC 6 Music.
BBC
Sunday lunchtime show, This Morning With Richard Not Judy
. He was mocked weekly by Stewart Lee
for having a small face, but was not allowed to speak as this would mean him having to be paid more. He also appeared in two episodes of Time Gentlemen Please
, once in the first series in 2000, and once in the second series in 2002. In 2003, he appeared in BBC3's Brain Candy
. Lock took a variety of roles in Channel 4's Star Stories
including Michael Parkinson
, Billy Bob Thornton
, Glenn Hoddle
, Emilio Estevez
and Ant McPartlin.
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
comedian
Comedian
A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...
, actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
and playwright
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
. He is noted for the circuitous and surreal
Surrealism
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....
nature of his stand-up comedy
Stand-up comedy
Stand-up comedy is a comedic art form. Usually, a comedian performs in front of a live audience, speaking directly to them. Their performances are sometimes filmed for later release via DVD, the internet, and television...
.
Early life
Lock was born in LincolnshireLincolnshire
Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...
. He grew up in Bugbrooke
Bugbrooke
Bugbrooke is a large village and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England, on a ridge overlooking the valley of the River Nene.-Location:It is about south west of Northampton...
, Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire is a landlocked county in the English East Midlands, with a population of 629,676 as at the 2001 census. It has boundaries with the ceremonial counties of Warwickshire to the west, Leicestershire and Rutland to the north, Cambridgeshire to the east, Bedfordshire to the south-east,...
where he attended Campion School
Campion School (Bugbrooke)
The Campion School is a co-educational comprehensive school in Bugbrooke, about from Northampton, England. Founded in 1967, it has been a Language College since September 1997. In 2011, the school became an academy....
and then studied Philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
at University College London
University College London
University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...
.
Stand up
He has toured the UK supporting both Stewart LeeStewart Lee
Stewart Lee is an English stand-up comedian, writer and director known for being one half of the 1990s comedy duo Lee and Herring, and for co-writing and directing the critically acclaimed and controversial stage show Jerry Springer - The Opera...
and Russell Brand
Russell Brand
Russell Edward Brand is an English comedian, actor, columnist, singer, author and radio/television presenter.Brand achieved mainstream fame in the UK in 2004 for his role as host of Big Brother spin-off, Big Brother's Big Mouth. His first major film role was in the 2007 film St Trinians...
and made appearances at the Edinburgh Fringe. A founder member and co-host of the comedy cabaret Kool Eddy's in London, he took the show to the Edinburgh Fringe in 1998. In 1999 Lock appeared in Number One Show with Daniel Kitson and Andrew Maxwell at The Gilded Balloon
The Gilded Balloon
The Gilded Balloon is one of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe's best-known venues, established by Karen Koren in 1986 in Edinburgh's Cowgate. When a fire destroyed the original premises, Teviot Row House in Bristo Square became the Gilded Balloon's main venue....
.
In 2006 he performed a one-off hour of stand-up Edinburgh Fringe show, When I was a Little Girl - The Very Best of Trevor Lock, at the Gilded Balloon Teviot Wine Bar, Edinburgh and appeared in Cloud Cuckooland, a work-in-progress for a forthcoming BBC Radio show with Russell Brand and Matt Morgan, at the Smirnoff 'Underbelly', Cowgate. Trevor also supported Russell Brand on a number of dates for his stand-up show Shame. In November 2007 Trevor addressed the Oxford Union on The Meaning of Life in the same week as the British National Party (BNP). He disproved Descartes' maxim "Cogito ergo sum
Cogito ergo sum
is a philosophical Latin statement proposed by . The simple meaning of the phrase is that someone wondering whether or not they exist is, in and of itself, proof that something, an "I", exists to do the thinking — However this "I" is not the more or less permanent person we call "I"...
by tipping a glass of water over his head. In 2009, Trevor Lock performed a warm up show for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival at a fundraiser for Boxmoor Cricket Club. He had two shows in the 2009 Edinburgh fringe; a stand up show called Some Kind of Fool and a play titled The One and the Many
Lock presents a live comedy night ‘Trevor Lock’s Philosophy Society’ at the Ku Bar in Lisle Street near Leicester Square
Leicester Square
Leicester Square is a pedestrianised square in the West End of London, England. The Square lies within an area bound by Lisle Street, to the north; Charing Cross Road, to the east; Orange Street, to the south; and Whitcomb Street, to the west...
. In early 2011 Lock revealed plans to tour the UK with a series of gigs held exclusively in people's livingrooms called Live In My Living Room.
Plays
In 1997 he appeared in Excavating Rita a play by, and starring, a naked Richard HerringRichard Herring
Richard Keith Herring is a British comedian and writer, whose early work includes his involvement in the double-act, Lee and Herring...
. In 1999, he performed his play Friday Night At The End Of The World at the Edinburgh Fringe. Lock returned to the Fringe in 2000 with two plays, There's Something You Should Know starring Russell Brand
Russell Brand
Russell Edward Brand is an English comedian, actor, columnist, singer, author and radio/television presenter.Brand achieved mainstream fame in the UK in 2004 for his role as host of Big Brother spin-off, Big Brother's Big Mouth. His first major film role was in the 2007 film St Trinians...
and All By Myself which also featured Brand as the voice of a New-Yorker TV set. He got 5-star reviews for his play What You Really Want at the Pleasance in 2001.
He has also written and performed two afternoon plays for BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
. Travel Sick (2005) was written with Sem Devillart and is a romantic comedy about an Englishman's adventures in the Andes pursuing a mysterious Peruvian woman he fell for in London. Something You Should Know (2004) was adapted by Lock and Devillart from their stage play of the same name that starred Russell Brand at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2000. It is a magical realist romantic comedy about a man who, whilst waiting for the fact of his untimely death to sink in and finally 'hit him', accidentally starts a relationship with his unrequited first love.
Radio
Lock appeared with Russell BrandRussell Brand
Russell Edward Brand is an English comedian, actor, columnist, singer, author and radio/television presenter.Brand achieved mainstream fame in the UK in 2004 for his role as host of Big Brother spin-off, Big Brother's Big Mouth. His first major film role was in the 2007 film St Trinians...
and Matt Morgan
Matt Morgan
Matthew Thomas Morgan is an American professional wrestler, currently signed with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as "The Blueprint" Matt Morgan...
on Brand's Saturday night BBC Radio 2 show
The Russell Brand Show (radio show)
The Russell Brand Show is a radio show first broadcast in 2006 on BBC 6 Music. The show's host is English comedian Russell Brand, who is usually joined his by co-host and long-term friend, Matt Morgan, as well as the show's poet laureate, Greg "Mr Gee" Sekweyama...
, and appeared alongside the pair on Brand's Sunday morning show on BBC 6 Music
BBC 6 Music
BBC 6 Music is one of the BBC's digital radio stations, was launched on 11 March 2002 and originally codenamed Network Y. It was the first national music radio station to be launched by the BBC in 32 years....
. He was often referred to by the nickname 'Cocky Locky'.
Trevor was often mocked by his co-hosts for comedic purposes. Themes that these mockings took includes Lock being cruel to animals, several of his stories involving a foot coming through a ceiling and lying. The 6 Music shows would usually take on a different theme each week, for instance one week the theme was "What Have I Done To Deserve This?" Lock told a story of being caught accidentally drowning a rodent
Rodent
Rodentia is an order of mammals also known as rodents, characterised by two continuously growing incisors in the upper and lower jaws which must be kept short by gnawing....
by a vicar
Vicar
In the broadest sense, a vicar is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior . In this sense, the title is comparable to lieutenant...
. The trio would regularly tease one another about these absurd anecdotes. The show also featured "Trevor's Sonic Enigma" which was renamed by Matt and Russell "Trevor done a Noise". This was meant to be a short clip of sound effects and voices (all done by Lock) meant to suggest the title of a song. These enigmas were notable for being misleading and confusing as well as very long, winners were invited to join the presenters in the studio the next week. The other item was "Challenge Trevor" in which Trevor was set a list of undesirable challenges by the listeners. These went from eating lemons to serenading Noel Gallagher
Noel Gallagher
Noel Thomas David Gallagher is an English musician and singer-songwriter, formerly the lead guitarist, backing vocalist and principal songwriter of the English rock band Oasis. He is currently fronting his solo project, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.Raised in Burnage, Manchester with his...
with an Oasis
Oasis (band)
Oasis were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1991. Originally known as The Rain, the group was formed by Liam Gallagher , Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs , Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan and Tony McCarroll , who were soon joined by Liam's older brother Noel Gallagher...
song in Lock's Elvis Presley voice.
A running joke was Lock being told by Brand to "EAT YOUR FUDGE!". This catchphrase stemmed from a particular broadcast when Brand presented him with large quantities of the foodstuff (in a short-lived attempt to "be nice" to him). This resulted in Lock feeling ill, and the catchphrase was continued for their duration on 6 Music and people went as far to shout out the phrase at his stand-up shows. On March 10, 2007, it was announced that he had left the show in order to pursue his own projects, reportedly his own pilot for BBC 6 Music.
Television
Between 1998 and 1999, Lock regularly appeared in the Lee and HerringLee and Herring
Lee and Herring were a British standup comedy double act consisting of the comedians Stewart Lee and Richard Herring. They were probably most famous for their work on television, most notably Fist of Fun and This Morning With Richard Not Judy but had been working together on stage and on radio...
BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
Sunday lunchtime show, This Morning With Richard Not Judy
This Morning With Richard Not Judy
This Morning With Richard Not Judy or TMWRNJ was a BBC comedy television programme, written by and starring Lee and Herring. Two series were broadcast in 1998 and 1999 on BBC2...
. He was mocked weekly by Stewart Lee
Stewart Lee
Stewart Lee is an English stand-up comedian, writer and director known for being one half of the 1990s comedy duo Lee and Herring, and for co-writing and directing the critically acclaimed and controversial stage show Jerry Springer - The Opera...
for having a small face, but was not allowed to speak as this would mean him having to be paid more. He also appeared in two episodes of Time Gentlemen Please
Time Gentlemen Please
Time Gentlemen Please is a British sitcom. Commissioned by Sky One, it was primarily written by Richard Herring and Al Murray and ran for two series between 2000 and 2002.- Premise and characters :...
, once in the first series in 2000, and once in the second series in 2002. In 2003, he appeared in BBC3's Brain Candy
Brain Candy
Brain Candy is a feature film by The Kids in the Hall, a Canadian comedy troupe. Directed by Kelly Makin, filmed in Toronto, and released in 1996, it followed the five season run of their television series, which had been successful in both Canada and the United States.The five man team plays all...
. Lock took a variety of roles in Channel 4's Star Stories
Star Stories
Star Stories is a British television comedy programme that takes a satirical look at celebrities and their lives. It was first shown on Channel 4 on September 15, 2006....
including Michael Parkinson
Michael Parkinson
Sir Michael Parkinson, CBE is an English broadcaster, journalist and author. He presented his interview programme, Parkinson, from 1971 to 1982 and from 1998 to 2007.- Early life :...
, Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton is an American actor, screenwriter, director and musician. Thornton gained early recognition as a cast member on the CBS sitcom Hearts Afire and in several early 1990s films including On Deadly Ground and Tombstone...
, Glenn Hoddle
Glenn Hoddle
Glenn Hoddle is an English former footballer and manager who played as an attacking midfielder for Tottenham Hotspur, AS Monaco, Chelsea and Swindon Town and at international level for England....
, Emilio Estevez
Emilio Estevez
Emilio Estevez is an American actor, film director, and writer. He started his career as an actor and is well-known for being a member of the acting Brat Pack of the 1980s, starring in The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire...
and Ant McPartlin.