One of Stewart Lee’s favourite comedians is again going to support one of Stewart Lee’s favourite bands on their next UK tour. Deadpan stand-up Ted Chippington – who Lee credits with inspiring him to ...

Ted Chippington’s provocatively dry performances on the 80s gig circuit influenced a generation of stand ups but, as he tells Stuart Huggett, he never said he was a comedian Comedian Stewart Lee talks ...

A FORGOTTEN figure of early ‘80s live comedy, Ted Chippington’s mundane, dry and repetitive routines polarised gig-goers. Running through seemingly limitless variations of the same gag, abuse and a ...

Surreal Midlands comic Ted Chippington earned a cult following in the Eighties for his deliberately awful jokes and songs before heading across the pond to obscurity. So it fell to celebrated fan ...

Ted Chippington (born 1960) is a British stand-up comedian and entertainer. His act is one in which the conventions of his chosen craft are routinely flouted. Assuming a diffident on-stage persona (in ...