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 Norman
Collier - Comedian
- Biography
He first came to national media attention after
a successful appearance at the Royal Variety
Command Performance in 1971. Though occasionally
appearing on television thereafter, he made his
main reputation on the northern club circuit,
and is highly regarded by many fellow comics
notably Frank Carson, Les Dawson, and Little and
Large.
To casual television viewers, he is best known
for two routines: one in the guise of a northern
club compere whose microphone is working
intermittently; another adopting the noises,
gestures and movements of a chicken, using his
out-turned jacket to suggest the fowl's wings.
However, the 'soundbite' demands of television
work have never reflected the detailed and
large-scale routines that have characterised
Collier's club work and which brought him
enormous success through the 1970s and 1980s.
His reputation among working-class club-goers
and fellow professional comedians has always
been excellent, justifying why he has stayed
constantly in demand for over 40 years.
He won an ITV series called Ace of Clubs, in
which club entertainers were pitted against each
other, performing their full routines in front
of a panel of judges. Collier easily won the
final by a unanimous decision of the panel.
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