Jamali Maddix

Jamali Maddix is an English stand-up comedian. His mother is British-Greek and his father is Jamaican.[1]

Maddix is notable for winning the Chortle Student Comedian of the Year award in 2014,[2] and hosts a documentary on extremism titled Hate Thy Neighbor[3] (2016) in partnership with Vice, wherein he interviews extremists from around the world to understand how they think. In some episodes he has been physically confronted by the people he has interviewed.

Hate Thy Neighbor

Hate Thy Neighbor is a Viceland series featuring Maddix.[4] In the documentary, Maddix goes on tour and interviews members of hate groups such as NSM, Azov, Nordic Youth and the Black Hebrew Israelites.

Taskmaster

On 17th December 2020, it was announced that Maddix would be included in the line up on series 11 of Taskmaster, alongside Charlotte Ritchie, Mike Wozniak, Lee Mack and Sarah Kendall.[5]

Personal life

Maddix's father is Jamaican and his mother's father is Greek, although for many years he had believed him to be Italian. In an episode of Big Zuu's Big Eats recorded 12 December 2019, he said "My dad is Jamaican, my mum didn't know her pops and she always told me he was Italian, for some reason. I don't know, she said he's Italian, that's all she'll say, "Ah, he's Italian." And I remember, I was talking to mum one day and she goes, "Ah no, he was Greek." So, now I'm a quarter Greek, but I never knew I was a quarter Greek until now and, you know, all right."[6] Jamali was born and currently lives in Ilford, Essex.[7]


References
  1. Tim Lewis, Jamali Maddix: I saw Bill Hicks and thought, there’s someone like me The Observer 27 November 2016
  2. "Review: Chortle Student Comedy Award final". www.chortle.co.uk. 19 August 2014. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  3. "Jamali Maddix: Hate Thy Neighbour — TV review by Steve Bennett". 23 Nov 2016.
  4. Logan, Brian (2017-03-02). "Hate Thy Neighbour's Jamali Maddix: crude, cartoonish, straight-up standup". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-06-14.
  5. "Taskmaster series 11 line up". Twitter. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
  6. "Jamali Maddix". Big Zuu's Big Eats. 19 June 2020. Event occurs at 5:57. Dave.
  7. "Ilford, Islamophobia And The London Comedy Circuit". Londonist. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
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