Chris Morris

Chris Morris is a writer director and performer best known for the television satires The Day Today and Brass Eye and the feature film Four Lions, a comedy about a cell of hapless suicide bombers. His radio work includes the On The Hour, Blue Jam and interventionist freeform shows performed under his own name. He co-wrote and directed the cult tv shows Jam and Nathan Barley and his film My Wrongs 8245 - 8249 & 117 won the BAFTA for Best Short in 2002. He collaborated with Peter Cook for the improvised radio series Why Bother, and has also directed episodes of Veep and appeared in The IT Crowd and The Stewart Lee Comedy Vehicle. His most recent feature film The Day Shall Come satirized the wanton injustice of FBI sting operations and he is currently working on projects about the Anglo American Coup in Iran in 1953 and the snake oil of dataism and AI.