British Comedian, Writer and TV Host Frank Skinner was born in West Bromwich, Birmingham in 1957. Desert Island Discs presenter Kirsty Young also introduced him as a seeming mass of contradictions: Skinner was expelled from school, yet went on to get a master’s degree in English. He is a Catholic although unmarried and childless and often amuses his audiences with tales of his many sexual encounters.
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At aged 30 Skinner was “an unemployed drunk going nowhere” when comedy, he says, “Saved my life”.
As with many comedians, his first experience of making people laugh was at school – his teacher left the classroom one day for 5 minutes, leaving him to entertain the class with funny stories. It wasn’t until he was 30, however, that he realised comedy was his destiny.
