Scott Capurro

Background check: Scott admires Scotland so much he named the country after his great uncle, Randolph Scott. Sadly Randolph never stuck, so the locals, over their pints, characteristically chose the briefest and easiest way out.

Since then, in a faerie land where English is ne’er spoken, Scott has pushed his mother tongue, and, in 1994, he miraculously won the Perrier Award with his magical show Risk Gay, an installation/performance piece chronicling the power of wind, where Scott, wearing only rainbow leg warmers and bright beads in his hair, mimed a glittering chime.

Between reading the Koran and mocking the Bible, Scott has developed an eye twitch while chasing gay sheep around Montana, where male-on-male action is limited to animal pens. I know. HOT! The result, The Truth About Gay Animals, has been an internationally televised hit, having played Israel and, consequently, resulting in death threats.

Scott has written for several newspapers, including The Guardian, The London Times and the Scotsman; and for various magazines, like The Index on Censorship, which isn’t half as stuffy as it sounds. Kidding. It actually is. AND he currently has a monthly column in Gay Times, a British glossy that hired him because he’s – you guessed it – ghettoized.

His book, Fowl Play, a comedy novel about murder and date rape, received good reviews and it is out of print. Currently, he’s working on a second novel about the making of a Broadway musical, entitled Runt. And there’s a third novel, Loaded, based on his play about his correspondence with killer Erik Menendez, which the English press called ‘sick and dangerous’.

Wait, it gets better: He’s on all sorts of British television programs, most of which are too embarrassing to mention, although 8 Out of Ten Cats is a hit, even when he’s a guest. His stand up CD, some of which is included in this web site, was released in the UK, his second home, to enormous fanfare, and very limited sales. Currently he’s touring, and being asked to tone it down in Manchester. Manchester for fuck sake, where clearly he’s not the problem. Still he perseveres, mainly out of a craving for attention and food.

Obviously, Scott is too busy to date. So he lives on friends’ couches. If you wanna call his a ‘life’. Or a lawn chair a ‘couch’.

OK breath. Thank God that’s over with, right? Only it gets worse, because the next section is the paragraph my agent made me include. It’s just crying out for bunny ears (Try to find the clever part I added):

Scott is also a veteran of our TV screens - he has appeared on such shows as C4’s ‘8 Out Of 10 Cats’, BBC1’s ‘The Stand-Up Show’, hosted ‘Is That It?’ for MAI United, and captained a team on the Channel 4 quiz ‘The Staying In Show’. A diverse performer (read: difficult), Scott’s talents were also incorporated into ‘Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace’!

His credits include….
TELEVISION CREDITS
2008 COMEDY CUTS ITV2 Series 3
2007 THE BLAME GAME BBC1
2007 COMEDY BLUE Paramount Channel
2007 HISTORY OF THE ‘C’ WORD C4
2007 COMEDY CUTS ITV2 Series 2
2006 THE LATE EDITION Guest BBC4
2006 BIG BROTHER’S LITTLE BROTHER Guest E4
2005 & 2006 8 OUT OF 10 CATS Guest Endemol for C4
2005 - 2008 THE WRIGHT STUFF Guest C5
2005 THE COMIC SIDE OF 7 DAYS Interview BBC3
2004 THE ONLY GAYS IN THE VILLAGE (Fly on the Wall prog) Target TV for Sky
2004 THE KINGS OF COMEDY Stand-Up C4/E4
2004 THE WORLD STANDS UP Stand-up Paramount Channel
2003 RICKI LAKE Guest NBC
2003 THE ALL NEW COMEDY STORE Stand-up C5
2002 THE TRUTH ABOUT GAY ANIMALS Presenter C4
2001/2002 THAT GAY SHOW Presenter BBC Choice
2000 THE HORROR OF… Guest BBC1
2000 STAND-UP FOR THE HOMELESS Stand-Up Carlton for C4
2000 TRANNY OF THE YEAR Judge Initial for C5
2000 UK PLAY GAY WEEKEND Presenter BBC Choice
1994/96/99 THE STAND-UP SHOW Stand-Up BBC1
1999 NASH BRIDGES Tailor USA TV for CBS
1998/99 THE STAYING IN SHOW, Team Captain Film & TV for C4
1999 MELINDA’S BIG NIGHT IN Guest C5
1998 HISTORY OF ALTERNATIVE COMEDY BBC2
1997/98 JACK DOCHERTY SHOW Guest C5
1997 IS THAT IT? Host Anglia and ITV
1997 LIGHT LUNCH Guest C4
1996 GOOD STUFF Reviewer Carlton for C4
1996 GAYTIME TV Guest BBC2
1996 EDINBURGH NIGHTS BBC2
1996 LATE NIGHT LIVE Guest Meridian
1996 PEBBLE MILL Guest BBC1
1996 COMEDY IS A SERIOUS BUSINESS
(Documentary) Tyne Tees
1996 THE WORD C4

THEATRE AND THEATRICAL CREDITS
Yankee Dog Pig: Soho Theatre, London, 2007; Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2006
Loaded: The Edinburgh Fringe Festival; San Francisco; New York City 2004
Fucking Our Fathers: The Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Stage Award Nomination, best actor); Chicago, USA 2001
Fowl Play: The Edinburgh Fringe Festival 1999
Brian Souffle: The Edinburgh Fringe Festival 1998
The Doctor Is On: The Edinburgh Fringe Festival 1996
The Love And Affection Tour: Edinburgh 1995 (Perrier Award Nominee); San Francisco; Australia
RiskGay: The Edinburgh Fringe 1994 (Perrier Best Newcomer Award and Spirit of the Fringe Award); San Francisco; New Zealand; Australia

Also, an experienced actor/director, Scott trained at UCLA, Orange County and in the UK at Birmingham University. Credits include performances with the following companies/theatres - A.C.T. and The Magic Theatre in San Francisco, the New Playwright’s Theatre in Washington and the Beverly Hills Playhouse.

FILM CREDITS
1999 STAR WARS EPISODE ONE: THE PHANTOM MENACE (part of ‘Fode’)
1993 MRS DOUBTFIRE (part of ‘Aunt Jack’)
1993 LOVERVILLE
1988 CAR TROUBLE

RADIO CREDITS
CLIVE ANDERSON’S CHAT ROOM, Radio 2
HOT GOSSIP, Radio 2
LOOSE ENDS Radio 4 (I’ve posted a recent comedy set in the ’see scott’ section)
ALICE RADIO MORNING SHOW 97.3, Viacom Radio; regular guest and sometimes co-host
THE SCOTT AND MARK SHOW Radio 1
THE USUAL SUPSPECTS BBC Radio Scotland
GAY & LESBIAN LONDON (Guest/Co-Presenter) GLR
THE TREATMENT BBC Radio 5 Live

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