- Spike Breakwell
Spike Breakwell (born Colin James Breakwell on
June 13 1968 ) is a British comedian.When he was 4 months old he became disabled through taking oral
polio vaccine which caused a two-weekcoma .cite web|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/features/article739384.ece|title=Inside story: spinal muscular atrophy|author=Spike Breakwell|work=Times Online|date=2006-03-11|accessdate=2008-10-08] He was brought up inDunstable , and "treated and raised to be as stubborn and independent as anyone else round about". In his teens he attended Treloar College inAlton, Hampshire .The first wheelchair-using comedian on the
London alternative club circuit, Spike became best known for theorizing on whybee s are nature's hippies, UFOs are deliveringpizza ,Jesus smoked dope and why thin people should be force-fed at gunpoint, since 1992 on stage andBBC2 television. His act always started with the line: "...I don't know what I've been drinking but I could walk half an hour ago!". Surprisingly, fans never tired of this.He also co-wrote and co-starred (with Simon Hardeman) in the smash Edinburgh International Festival Fringe shows "On The Toilet With Shergar (An Evening of Horseplay and Lavatory Humour ’92)", "(Simon and Spikes Laugh-In ’93)" and the critically acclaimed play looking at comedy "Death Of A Comedian 94". He has also been a regular in a BBC disability magazine programme.
In January 2006 Breakwell and part of the Wheelabout expedition team drove across Australia. [cite web|url=http://www.podcastfm.co.uk/about.php?guid=115740419444fc96240d225|title=5 Minute Travel » Blood, Sweat & Beers|work=Podcast FM|date=2006-09-04|accessdate=2008-10-08] He had planned to become the first person to cross from Perth to Syndey (4600 miles) in an electric wheelchair.
He currently co-writes (with Simon Hardeman) the Beginners' Guide column in The Times Magazine.
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* [http://findarticles.com/p/search?tb=art&qa=Spike+Breakwell Ten articles by Spike Breakwell] reproduced from the
Independent on Sunday , 2003-2004
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