| Lewis Schaffer |
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| Born |
| March 30, 1957 |
| Height |
| 5'9" 1.75m |
| Occupation |
| Stand-up comedian |
| Official website |
| www.lewisschaffer.co.uk [1] |
Lewis Schaffer is an American comedian. He is now based in London where he moved in 2000. He currently hosts his own weekly radio show on Resonance FM 104.4FM in London entitled "Voice of Americans with Lewis Schaffer of Nunhead" and has his own so stand-up comedy show in London entitled "Lewis Schaffer is Free until Famous."
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Lewis Schaffer performs his show "Free until Famous" twice weekly at the Source Below in Soho, London. His show is the "longest running solo stand-up show in London and perhaps all of Britain", running in excess of 250 performances since its inception in October 2008. [1]
In 2009, he announced as a publicity stunt that he would be sponsoring the Edinburgh festival comedy awards that had previously been called the if.comedy or Perrier awards.[2] He claimed he had purchased the naming-rights to the awards for "£99 with his mother as a judge". This was reported as fact in various publications[3] and lead to threat of a lawsuit from the award's rights holder[2] and being fired by his theatrical agents.[4]
In 2009, he won the Malcolm Hardee Cunning Stunt Award for best publicity stunt at the Edinburgh Fringe[5] and, in 2010, he was nominated for the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality.[6]
Lewis Schaffer was born in Brooklyn, New York, grew up in Great Neck, New York and spent most of his adult life in Manhattan. He moved to London in 2000. He is bitterly divorced with two children and now lives in the Nunhead Heights area of Nunhead, southeast London. Schaffer is currently single and ready to mingle.