Broadway Stars Broadway Stars

Portrait of the artist: Phill Jupitus, comedian by Laura Barnett

'The high point of my career? On the opening night of Hairspray, I wore a sequinned dress with big breasts'What got you into comedy?Seeing Steve Martin on Parkinson when I was a kid. It's one of the weirdest TV interviews you'll ever see: Parkinson clearly didn't like his big, brash style. But I loved Martin's silliness; when I started performing as a poet, I would occasionally nick one of his lines and stick it in-b…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30PM on August 8, 2011

« Back to BroadwayStars