Chris McCausland
Chris McCausland (1977 > ) is a British stand-up comedian. He regularly appears at comedy venues around the UK, including The Comedy Store. Parents of small children might best know him for his role as Rudi in the Cbeebies show Me Too!.
Early life
McCausland is originally from Liverpool, but has lived in Surrey since the mid 90s after moving there to study at Kingston University.
He graduated from Kingston University in 2000 with a BSc in software engineering. After a spell as a web developer deteriorating eyesight prompted a change of direction and he turned to comedy in 2003.
He suffers from a genetic eyesight condition called Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) and after a gradual deterioration of eyesight is now totally blind.
He is a lifelong supporter of Liverpool FC.
Stand-up comedy
He first gave stand-up a go at a new act comedy night in Balham in July 2003. With in his first year performing stand-up he won the Jongleurs J2O Last Laugh competition, came runner-up in the Laughing Horse New Act of The Year and placed third in Channel 4's So You Think You're Funny competition.
Between 2005 and 2012 he took six different stand-up shows to the Edinburgh Festival and in 2011 was awarded the Creative Diversity Award for comedy by a Channel 4 led panel of broadcasters that also included BBC, ITV and Sky.
He has performed all over the world including across Asia and the Middle East and regularly travels the UK playing the countries top comedy clubs.
Television
In 2014 he fronted a national TV advert for Barclays, to promote the benefits of their new talking cash machines.[1]
In 2014 he starred in the Jimmy McGovern drama series Moving On alongside Anna Crilly and Neil Fitzmaurice.
In 2012 he appeared alongside fellow comedians in Jimmy Carr's Comedians Special charity episode of Celebrity Deal or No Deal.
He has appeared in three series of At The Comedy Store in 2008 for Paramount Comedy and in 2010 and 2012 for Comedy Central.
In 2011 he appeared in ITV's Stand-up Hero series.
In 2010 he featured in BBC1's end of year spoof news review Unwrapped with Miranda Hart.
He is one of the principal characters in CBeebies series Me Too!, playing Rudi the market trader. Filmed in 2006 it is still currently airing daily on CBeebies and internationally.