Simon Munnery

Simon Munnery performs under various guises – Alan Parker: Urban Warrior, The League Against Tedium and as himself. His stand-up routines are sometimes satirical and political and always surreal. He's well-known on the alternative circuit and has appeared both on radio and TV. He's never been to Specsavers.

Articles by Simon Munnery

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Rook

  • 23 January 2008
  • 6 comments

Are we to believe that being Canadian is more significant than being Gay? Simon Munnery's welcome return to newstatesman.com

Look!

  • 02 November 2007
  • 1 comment

You can't scare monks with shellsuits

Cook

  • 17 September 2007
  • 2 comments

The whole phenomenon of television cookery is a little baffling; the one thing that isn’t transmitted by TV is taste

Kelp

  • 14 August 2007
  • 1 comment

The true origins of the Edinburgh Festival based on a fact

Yelp

  • 01 August 2007
  • 3 comments

I am a hunter-journalist. Why should I feel ashamed for killing a mouse?

Help

  • 16 July 2007
  • 2 comments

'Never a borrower or a lender be,' my Uncle used to say, and perhaps inevitably the bank sacked him

Stains

  • 04 July 2007
  • 3 comments

Simon Munnery says what he would do if he was prime minister giving us a glimpse of a brighter world in which he would also be king

Change

  • 18 June 2007

"It’s easy if you try," sang John Lennon. He was wrong

Strange

  • 06 June 2007
  • 2 comments

Shouting on the phone is picking a fight with someone you cannot have a fight with; ideal for bullies and cowards

Coast

  • 22 May 2007

Being rude but getting away with it - every child’s dream

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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