British Comedian and Rapper Chris Turner Creates a Freestyle Rap
On The Spot on The Grindhouse Radio
LEVITTOWN, NY – (September 29th, 2021) – British Comedian and Rapper Chris Turner joins this week's episode of The Grindhouse Radio to freestyle some rap, his latest appearence on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and his origins on becoming a comedian. Turner joins hosts Brimstone, Kim Adragna, and Tom Greer about life so tune in to this week's episode on Thursday, September 30th, 2021 starting at 7pm EST | 4pm PST via the GHR Official Website (thegrindhouseradio.com), or any of over 25 syndicated networks including iHeartRadio, iTunes, Spotify and Google Podcast.
About Chris Turner:
Chris’s rapid freestyle raps have established him as one of the most in-demand acts on the corporate circuit, and at comedy clubs around the world. He is based in the USA and regularly performs at New York’s world famous Comedy Cellar. In September 2021, he appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, becoming the first British Comedian to perform there, and received a standing ovation.
Chris can be seen on YouTube where his channel has over 35 million views on YouTube and headline for 1 million Dutch comedy fans on RTL4's flagship stand up show, The Comedy Factory; appear live on BBC Radio, and perform sold-out five-star runs at festivals worldwide. In 2016, Observational Tragedy won Best Comedy at the Adelaide Fringe Weekly Awards, and for the third year running, many of his jokes appeared in multiple 'Best Jokes of the Fringe’ lists. In 2018, he performed We're Where We Were at Orlando Fringe, winning a Patron’s Pick Award for the show. It the show received a five star review from Edinburgh Festivals Magazine, who branded his raps “mind-bindingly flawless” and the show “The Fringe Holy Grail”. His latest tour shows, the punchline-packed ‘Target Demographic’ and musical comedy extravaganza ‘Rap God’ received 5 star reviews during their Australian tour, and both won ‘Best Comedy’ awards at Fringeworld festival.
Chris is a sought-after entertainer on the corporate circuit, hosting awards and performing for many of the world’s largest organisations, as well as being a firm favourite of many of the UK’s biggest sports teams. He has worked with Yorkshire Tea to create Blessed are the Teamakers, a tea-centric rap with 6m+ views, and with Coca-Cola to produce comedic content for their mobile media platform.
Chris has interviewed Jerry Springer, introduced Garry Kasparov, and rapped for Imogen Heap, and Yasiin Bey. In 2019, he entertained an audience of 2000 during Forbes’ most recent 30 under 30 conference in Detroit, appearing between headline speakers Kevin Durant and rapper Quavo. Throughout 2020 and 2021, he has performed over 200+ virtual shows for companies including Nike, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, BCG, Bain & Co., McKinsey, IBM, Samsung, and many more.
He is a founding member of Racing Minds, one of the UK's most respected improv troupes, with 7 sell-out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe performing Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised, a twelve-part series recorded for Audible, and 600,000+ Soundcloud subscribers to their 50s style radio comedy The Wireless Podcast.
Follow Chris Turner on Social Media:
Instagram: @ChrisTurnerComedy
Twitter: @ChrisPJTurner
Facebook: @ChrisTurnerComedy
Website: www.christurnercomedy.com
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