Simon Amstell is a writer, director and comedian.
Simon’s feature film, BENJAMIN premiered at the London Film Festival in 2018 and was released internationally to widespread critical acclaim. ‘Benjamin’ recently had its British television premiere on FilmFour.
‘Perfectly shaped at under 90 minutes, ‘Benjamin’ maintains its softly barbed wit and sweet-and-sour intimacy to the end, bringing its shambolic eponymous hero to the brink of self-realization’. Variety.
‘Funny, charming and overpoweringly personal comedy. Amstell… conjures a miraculously heartfelt love story, sweet and poignant in all its awkwardness’ The Guardian.
Simon’s debut feature CARNAGE aired on BBC iPlayer in 2017 and is still available to watch here.
Simon’s latest stand up special ‘Set Free’ is now on Netflix. The show drew on material from his critically acclaimed book Help, published by Penguin Random House.
His previous stand-up tours of the UK, USA and Australia include ‘To Be Free’, ‘Numb’ and ‘Do Nothing’.
Simon starred in the critically acclaimed television BBC 2 series Grandma’s House, which he wrote with Dan Swimer.
In his youth, Simon was the youngest finalist of the BBC New Comedy Awards and went on to host Channel Four’s ‘Poworld’. He has won an RTS Award, a Broadcast Award, two British Comedy Awards and has been nominated for a BAFTA for his work on BBC2’s ‘Never Mind The Buzzcocks’.
‘Simon Amstell has a gift for taking a social norm and gently mocking it until it seems utterly ridiculous’. The New York Times.
‘The real deal’. The Guardian
