Simon Amstell

30 year-old award-winning English comedian and television presenter.

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.

His first professional television appearance was in 1998, as a presenter on the UK children's channel Nickelodeon.

Simon co-wrote an episode of Channel 4 teen drama Skins in 2007.

Amstell's first guest appearances on the comedy pop quiz show Never Mind The Buzzcocks were on 27 October 2003 and on 20 March 2005. Amstell then took over from Mark Lamarr as host of the show.

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