Martin “Big Pig” Mor
Martin is blessed with animal-keen senses that enable him to track people and objects with an impressive degree of success. He possesses uncanny comic improvisational skills. He is also the person responsible for talking the other comedians into possibly stranding themselves halfway up the tallest mountains in Britain.History:
1.The early years: Martin had an early career as a juggler, unicyclist, knife thrower, fire-eater, magician, and photographic model.
2.The accident: As the result of an accident in the big top, in which he sustained a shattered ankle, he was forced to retire from the circus.
3.The Comedian: Temporally robbed of his mobility, his senses reorganized themselves, producing a heightened comedic ability, lightning fast improvisational skills, and an improved sense of smell.He became a stand-up comedian.
The beast within the boy unleashed at last, he became the dynamic, multi-skilled performer Martin Bigpig Mor, combining startlingly original material with bold, energetic improvisation. His love of working the audience, and an inability to remember his script, mean that every show is a unique interactive live event, and no two shows are ever the same.
Martin has performed successfully at events of all description, from a show for the inmates of an Italian prison (performing in the exercise yard), to numerous appearances on radio, and television.
Martins photograph is featured on the popular board game Trivial Pursuits, (The Genus Edition). On an arts entertainments square, he is wearing a leotard.
A truly global performer, Martin has worked throughout the known world performing his shows extensively in Britain and Ireland, and also in the USA, Italy, Holland, Germany, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, and Mainland China.
His shows received rave reviews at the Edinburgh Festival in 1997, 1998, and 1999. After an absence of three years, (due to an extended world tour), he appeared at the 2003 and 2004 festivals, to media acclaim, and the relief of his friends, who thought he was in jail.
Under the name Martin Mor, he has written, and performed several plays, and was a writer of BBC Radio Four's highly acclaimed comedy show, The In Crowd.
Martin was once a guest on Woman's Hour.
Reviews/quotes:
"Explosive visual comedian who should carry a Government health warning." City Life.
"This guy's great." George Best.
"Off beat, unusual, outrageous." Time Out.
"Martin Bigpig certainly is a nice genuine person, and he is hilarious." The Irish World.
"The comic least likely to be heckled." The Irish Post.
"His timing, delivery, and audience rapport are slick, sometimes sick and funny." Edinburgh Evening News.
"The gem was the improvisational skills of Bigpig who drew much, if not more laughter, from those moments when he was thinking on his feet, sneerlessly enjoying those present almost as much as we enjoyed him." The stage.
"He wore us out with laughter. Irrepressible exuberance." The Scotsman.
"Deadly eejitness." The Herald.
Contact: Martin can be contacted by shining a beard silhouette into the sky at night, or by internet on:
