Comic recovers from The Who

Phill Jupitus’s career in stand-up survived a treacherous support slot atthe Royal Albert Hall, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

MOST stand-up comics try their hands at different things. Half of them, according to Colin Murphy, have an unfinished novel lying on a laptop somewhere. They’ll do voice-overs, or will act.

Phill Jupitus, best known for his role as team captain on Never Mind The Buzzcocks since 1996, has done the lot and then some. Other jobs include several years as a DJ on BBC radio. He has presented TV shows on everything from soccer and baseball (he has a tattoo of the letter B, as in B for the Boston Red Sox, on his inside left wrist) to Walt Disney.