Henry Normal is an English comedian, television producer, poet and writer. He is Managing Director of Baby Cow Productions Ltd which he set up with Steve Coogan. In his early career, Normal toured with the band Pulp. With Mark Atwood he helped form the Live Poets Society whose motto was 'poetry so good you can actually understand it'. Established in Manchester, they performed in pubs and clubs throughout the north of England.

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  • Henry Normal is an English comedian, television producer, poet and writer. He is Managing Director of Baby Cow Productions Ltd which he set up with Steve Coogan. In his early career, Normal toured with the band Pulp. With Mark Atwood he helped form the Live Poets Society whose motto was 'poetry so good you can actually understand it'. Established in Manchester, they performed in pubs and clubs throughout the north of England. One of the poets, Donal Thompson, went on to win the BBC Alfred Bradley Bursary in 1992. Normal had an eccentric delivery style, and at a 1987 poetry convention in Corby performed with a paper bag over his head. Also in the 1980s, Henry Normal had short prose pieces published in small press magazines such as Peace & Freedom magazine. In 1991 he starred in Channel 4's late night series, Packet of Three, which blended stand-up comedy with a peculiarly solipsistic sitcom about the staff working at a theatre for variety, called The Crumpsall Palladium. As the beleaguered, depressed theatre owner, Henry was assisted by stage manager Frank Skinner and kiosk attendant Jenny Eclair. In 1999, Henry Normal and Steve Coogan established their TV comedy production company, Baby Cow Productions. TV programmes since produced by this award-winning company include: Human Remains (2000), starring Rob Brydon The Sketch Show (2001-2002), starring Lee Mack, Tim Vine, Jim Tavare I Am Not an Animal (2004) Sensitive Skin (2005), starring Joanna Lumley and Denis Lawson Gavin & Stacey (2007), starring James Corden and Ruth Jones Nighty Night The Mighty Boosh He has written for TV and film. He co-wrote The Royle Family with Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash, and was co-screenwriter for the 2001 film The Parole Officer, starring Steve Coogan. Henry Normal’s poetry collections include The Dream Ticket, Is Love Science Fiction?, Map of Heaven and Nude Modelling for the afterlife. He lives in Brighton.
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  • Henry Normal is an English comedian, television producer, poet and writer. He is Managing Director of Baby Cow Productions Ltd which he set up with Steve Coogan. In his early career, Normal toured with the band Pulp. With Mark Atwood he helped form the Live Poets Society whose motto was 'poetry so good you can actually understand it'. Established in Manchester, they performed in pubs and clubs throughout the north of England.
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