Moyles, Chris
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Chris Moyles (born February 22, 1974 in Leeds), is a British radio DJ and presenter of The Chris Moyles Show on BBC Radio 1.
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Pre Radio 1
He began his career in radio at the age of sixteen when he joined local station Aire FM. Over the next six years he worked on several other stations including Capital FM and Radio Luxembourg (as Chris Holmes).
Radio 1 Career
In 1997 Moyles was voted one of the Faces for '97 by Sky Magazine. He later joined Radio 1 on July 28, 1997. Within months, in May 1998, his work was recognised by the award of the Silver Sony Awards DJ of the Year, and within the year he was promoted to a Saturday mid-morning slot.
His next promotion came in October 1998 when he took control of the afternoon show. Moyles took with him the show's writer and his sidekick David "Comedy Dave" Vitty. His show also included regular guests such as impressionist Jon Culshaw. He and his team soon attracted considerable attention and notoriety.
After five years on drive time, on January 5, 2004, Moyles started presenting Radio 1's flagship programme The Breakfast Show, switching places with Sara Cox. He had been appointed to increase the ratings for the show and did so, putting on an extra 700,000 listeners to the audience in the first quarter of 2004. After a successful first year, Moyles was awarded 'DJ of the Year' by readers of The Sun.
By 2005 Chris Moyles and his team had succeeded in vastly increasing the morning audience, as his programme's audience had swelled to 6.5 million. This was coupled with an increase in the overall Radio 1 listenership. With 895,000 listeners in London in the third quarter of 2005, he succeeded in overtaking Johnny Vaughan to take the prized position of the capital's most listened to youth breakfast show.
Show Format
- Main article: The Chris Moyles Show
Features
Regular competitions he has hosted have been Viaduct, which was based on a Two Ronnies sketch (itself based on Mastermind, with a specialist subject of "answering the question before the last"), and currently Car Park Catch-Phrase, featuring voice samples from the Ulster comedian, Roy Walker. His Saturday morning shows often contained slightly bizarre competitions, including one where Chris and Dave made predictions on how long people's marriages would last.
Numerous other comedy features have been included in Moyles' shows. These include 'Girls Going to Football', in which Comedy Dave predicts the scores of football matches to which female listeners are going; Rob DJ's Monday Night Pub Quiz, where the team answers a selection of questions from a local pub quiz; Frog or Dog, where listners had to do an impression of either a frog or a dog; Guess Who, a Twenty Questions-style game, in which the team members try to guess the name of a celebrity spotted by another of the team; and many more.
The Team
Moyles' show is distinct in that it relies on a number of on air contributors. Of these, Comedy Dave (see above) has worked with Chris the longest; though since 2004 he has also presented his own show along side Mark Chapman. Many of the other contributors have been the sports and news readers from the show, boadcast assistants and show producers; though Chris' friends such as the Longman and impressionist Jon Culshaw have also been involved.
Work Outside of Radio
He has also branched out into television, though with less success. His own show, Live with...Chris Moyles, on Channel 5 was a flop in the ratings, with audiences as low as 200,000 viewers[1], and Chris was soon replaced by Christian O'Connell. He and sidekick Comedy Dave also had a short lived TV show also entitled The Chris Moyles Show on the now defunct UK satellite and cable channel UK Play during 1999. He has also occasionally presented Top of the Pops and has worked for Comic Relief.
In October 2004, Moyles and the Breakfast Show team replaced U2's "Vertigo" at number one in the UK Official Download Chart with their download-only charity song "Dogz Don't Kill People (Wabbitz Do)", under the name "Mouldie Lookin' Stain". The song was a spoof of Goldie Lookin' Chain's "Guns Don't Kill People, Rappers Do" and proceeds went to Comic Relief.
Controversies
Moyles, unlike many current and former Radio 1 DJs, except maybe Chris Evans, derides listeners who enter the phone-in competitions he hosts. He occasionally asks female callers the size of their breasts, does not like young lads with a strong south-east England or Cockney accent and mocks people who he considers have dull, repetitive jobs with obvious sarcasm. Unsurprisingly, he has had dealings with the Broadcasting Standards Commission and Ofcom when at Capital FM and Radio 1, who have had complaints upheld such as when he threatened Dr Fox of Capital FM in October 2002 that 'I'm gonna tear his head off and poo down his neck', or in early 2002 saying he would take the virginity of Charlotte Church, when she reached sixteen.