Ian Macpherson (comedian)

Ian Macpherson is an Irish writer and performer. He is best known for his stand-up comedy[1][2] (especially alternative comedy[3]) and for his comic novels including Deep Probings: The Autobiography of a Genius. In 2004, Deep Probings was featured as a BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime. He has also written a number of children's books including Late Again!

Ian Macpherson
Ian Macpherson pictured at Arthur Smith‘s Artuart exhibition at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
MediumStand-up, novels, short stories, plays
NationalityIrish
Years active1980s-present
Genrescomedy, surreal humour, wit
WebsiteIanMacpherson.net

Macpherson won the first Time Out Comedy Award in 1988. Several one-man shows followed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, including The Chair at the Assembly Rooms in 2001 and The Joy Of Death at the Pleasance in 2002. At this time he was also writing comedy scripts and radio plays and he supported Arnold Brown at the festival in 2008.[4]

2011 saw the publication of The Autobiography of Ireland's Greatest Living Genius, an omnibus containing both Deep Probings and its previously unpublished sequel, Posterity Now.

The Book of Blaise (or How To Survive The Menopause With Your Manhood Intact), came out in November 2015.[5]

2019 saw the publication of Sloot, the first installment of a proposed trilogy of comedy crime novels.[6][7]

He was described by Arthur Smith as "Comedy's answer to James Joyce" and by Stewart Lee as "pre-dating and pre-empting all contemporary Irish comics, and the originator of the most influential joke of all time, Ian Macpherson is the Newgrange Megalithic Passage Tomb of stand-up comedy."[8]

He lives in Glasgow and is married to the poet Magi Gibson.[9][10]

References
  1. "Anguish with Posie". 6 January 2010.
  2. "'How much homage can one man take?' : Features 2010 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide".
  3. https://www.comedy.co.uk/features/ian_macpherson_genealogy_of_the_joke/
  4. "Arnold Brown | Edinburgh Festival".
  5. "The Book of Blaise". 28 July 2016.
  6. "Sloot: A wonderfully funny slice of delicious Dublinese".
  7. "Ireland's greatest living genius: The Parish Review interview".
  8. "What they've already said". ianmacpherson.net.
  9. "Coronavirus: Bringing poets together to share a 'storm of emotions'". BBC News. 23 April 2020.
  10. "Ian Macpherson: the story so far". ianmacpherson.net.
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