The comedian Phil Jerrod, recognised for his richly lyrical observations and tirades, delivered with surreal flights of fancy, has died from cancer aged 42. His company, Off the Kerb, introduced on Monday that Jerrod had died at house “with his devoted wife Beck by his side” and explained him as “a expensive friend to us, an incredibly sort and talented man”.
Tributes had been paid out on social media by standups including Dane Baptiste, who identified as him a “great comic” and “a good guy with a kind soul”. Jacob Hawley reported: “I commonly retell so many of the sensible, supportive items he informed me when I was a new act. Manufactured every vehicle journey/environmentally friendly area a happier location.” Sean McLoughlin explained Jerrod was “spectacularly gifted, neat and in all probability the nicest person in the small business. We must all intention to be additional like him.”
There were tributes from the a lot of comedy clubs and festivals where by Jerrod carried out close to the United kingdom about a 10-12 months career at the mic. A tweet from Cardiff’s Glee Club explained him as “warm, supportive, caring and a great standup who generally served fill our venues with laughter”.
Jerrod was a popular figure in Brighton’s comedy scene and co-hosted the Crash Bang Wallop Podcast, about famed and lesser-acknowledged disasters in earth record, with fellow local comic Phil Lucas. Jerrod toured with a further Brightonian, Angela Barnes, who termed him “incomparable”. Rachel Parris tweeted: “I initially obtained to know him on the Brighton comedy circuit and he was always beautiful and hilarious and will be quite a lot skipped.”
He had work as a waiter, a cook, a labourer and in “about a million crappy places of work” just before concentrating on comedy, starting his standup career in a location beneath an Angus Steakhouse in 2012. In 2015, he received the award for very best debut act at the Leicester comedy festival, which hailed the “innovative stream-of-consciousness style” in his set about his rural upbringing. That yr he made his Edinburgh fringe debut with the clearly show Neanderthal, profitable him even further admirers of his ruminative design and very well-wrought gags, not to mention his fulsome beard and arresting stare.
He returned to Edinburgh in pursuing a long time with displays which includes Hypocrite, a set impressed by getting mugged in a cellular phone box. He supported Romesh Ranganathan and Angela Barnes on their countrywide excursions and also wrote for key BBC radio and Television collection these as The Now Show, The Information Quiz and Mock the 7 days.
Ranganathan reported: “Phil Jerrod was 1 of my really best pals and I cherished him dearly. He was a brilliant comic, but more importantly one of the kindest and loveliest men you could at any time fulfill. You would always feel better for acquiring expended time with him. I will pass up him so considerably.”
