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Simon Marc Amstell (born 29 November 1979) is a BAFTA nominated, award-winning English comedian and...

Simon Marc Amstell (born 29 November 1979) is a BAFTA nominated, award-winning English comedian and television presenter. In 2007, Amstell was nominated for "The Times Breakthrough South Bank Show Award". Amstell's first television appearance was in 1993 when he appeared as a contestant on the Channel 4 game show GamesMaster.. He also appeared on Good Morning with Anne and Nick doing his impression of Dame Edna Everage. Simon Amstell also appeared on an episode of Family Catchphrase in 1994. Amstell described himself as a budding magician and showed one of his tricks to the presenter, Andrew O'Connor, who was also a magician himself. They won a television and a video recorder. Amstell started performing on the comedy circuit when he was just 14 and later caught the eye of television executives by becoming the youngest finalist of the BBC New Comedy Awards in 1998. His first professional television appearance was in 1998, as a presenter on the UK children's channel Nickelodeon. He claims he was sacked for being "sarcastic and mean to children.", although the potted biography on his website also, jokingly, claims: "He started his TV career at Nickoledeon where he was fired for making