Maff Brown

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Maff Brown
Maff Brown, Brighton (2007)
Maff Brown, Brighton (2007)
Born August 23, 1974 (1974-08-23) (age 33)
Laleham, Staines, United Kingdom
Nationality British
Website http://www.maffbrown.com

Maff Brown (born Matthew James Brown on August 23, 1974 in Laleham, Staines) is a British comedian and MC who is known for his mischievous style of joke-telling and the award-winning comedy club Outside The Box.

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[edit] Football

During his high school education he began playing football, a passion which was recognized as a talent when he was chosen to play right back and central midfielder for Brentford F.C. and Hamilton Academicals. At 20 years old his playing career was cruelly cut short when a broken ankle failed to heal correctly. He went on the coach at the Centre of Excellence at Brentford, the Bolton Wanderers Academy, the Everton Academy. After graduating from Liverpool John Moores University, he was hired by Gerrard Houllier's team at Liverpool F.C. as a technical analyst. After leaving Liverpool he was offered a coaching position in Singapore for Woodlands Wellington. Two seasons later, after losing two games which were shown on television, Brown was paid off. "They wanted me to make a public apology. I refused. You lose games in football. That’s life."

[edit] Stand Up Comedy

In May 2005 he completed the Amused Moose stand up comedy course run by fellow comedian Logan Murray, then began performing in November 2005. The day after he finished the course, Brown started plans to set up the now cult weekly club called Outside the Box at the Fighting Cocks pub in Kingston. Three months after the club began, it was nominated and won the prestigious Best Comedy Club Award from the renowned website Chortle.co.uk. Two years on and it's reached cult status among big name comedians. Many of whom use the club to try out new material and most popularly, to test out their material pre-Edinburgh festival. To date guests have included: Jimmy Carr, Frank Skinner, Stephen Merchant, Bill Bailey, Lee Mack, Sean Lock, Russell Brand, Rich Hall, Omid Djalili, Dara Ó Briain , Andy Parsons, Jeff Green, Robin Ince, Tim Vine, Russell Kane, Rhys Darby and Russell Howard.

Aside from MCing Outside The Box every Monday, Brown tours the UK comedy circuit developing his own material. March 2007 saw him tackle the comedy clubs in New York City. After landing three open spots, he took on Village Lantern in Greenwich Village and on to the Broadway Comedy Club with its three rooms. On the first night he was in the smallest one and was only supposed to do five minutes, but the MC told him to stay on. He did over 15 minutes and on the strength of that, got invited back the next day to play the next room up. The middle room at the Broadway Comedy Club holds around 80 people. Brown did 25 minutes and got a standing ovation.

August 2007 saw a successful Edinburgh festival stint for Brown when playing the white half in a show called The Honky and the Wog. Sharing the bill as the black counterpart, was Paramount Comedy Channel's Nathan Caton. Back to London and September saw a second and successful gig at London's legendary Comedy Store for Brown when he hosted a charity fundraiser for Macmillan Cancer Support. The bill included Dara O'Briain, Russell Howard and was headlined by Al Murray.

Maff is currently working on a return to the Edinburgh festival in 2008.

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