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Acclaimed actor, writer, producer, composer and director whose best-known work is probably the satirical current affairs programme ''[[Brass Eye]]'', in which he fooled a Member of Parliament into asking the House of Commons to ban a fictional drug and tricked pudgy rocker Phil Collins into representing a fake anti-paedophile campaign called "Nonce Sense".

 

His penchant for pitch black humour and fearless parody of public figures made him something of a televisual ''infant terrible'' for a time, particularly after the 2001 ''[[Brass Eye]]'' paedophile special was attacked for supposedly making fun of paedophilia and chlid abuse (it was actually satirising the media's then-preoccupation with sensationalised paedophile stories and the subsequent bouts of civil unrest that they caused). In one notable case ''The Daily Star'' published an article attacking the "paeodphile comedy" opposite [[media:star-1.jpg|a photograph of then-15-year-old singer Charlotte Church]] in which it commended the size of her breasts.

 

 

However, his comedy of late seems to have taken a calmer route, with 2005's ''[[Nathan Barley]]'' being a relatively conventional sitcom satirising shallow media halfwits in London's Hoxton area. However, despite extensive publicity it was a ratings disaster and alienated some members of Morris's fandom, who derided it for attacking easy, harmless targets and - perhaps more damningly - for not being particularly funny.

* ''[[Jam]]'' (producer/writer/actor, 2000)

* ''[[Nathan Barley]]'' (producer/writer, 2005)

* ''[[Four Lions]]'' (writer/director, 2010)

 

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