Luke Mockridge

Lucas Edward Britton Mockridge (born 21 March 1989) is a comedian living in Germany. He holds Canadian and Italian citizenship.

Luke Mockridge
Mockridge in 2019
Birth nameLucas Edward Britton Mockridge
Born (1989-03-21) 21 March 1989
Bonn, West Germany
Medium
Years active
  • 2012–2021
  • 2022–present
Parent(s)Bill Mockridge
Margie Kinsky
Relative(s)Jeremy Mockridge
Websiteluke-mockridge.de
Citizenship
  • Italy
  • Canada
[1]

Early life

Mockridge is son of the Canadian actor and comedian Bill Mockridge and the Italian actress and comedian Margie Kinsky.[2] He was raised in Endenich and has two older and three younger brothers. His siblings are all involved in the show business, as directors, musicians, singers, actors and models.[3] One of his brothers is actor Jeremy Mockridge. Luke Mockridge lives in Cologne.[4] His godfather was Dirk Bach.[4]

Career
Mockridge at NightWash Comedy in Cologne

Upon completing his school finals ("Abitur"), Mockridge undertook a university programme in media and communications science in Canada, England and Germany, from which he obtained a bachelor's degree in 2012.[4] During his studies in Canada, Mockridge made an appearance in the High School Musical Stage Programme as Chad.[5]

Since 2012, Mockridge has been touring through Germany with the solo show I'm Lucky, I'm Luke!. In German national television, he has made regular appearances at NightWash, Quatsch Comedy Club, TV total, RTL Comedy Grand Prix, and Fun(k)haus. Mockridge is the host of 1LIVE Hörsaal-Comedy and works as writer of Switch reloaded.[5][3] In September 2013, he launched his own comedy show on KiKa and ZDF called Occupy School.[6]

Mockridge took over the role as presenter at the TV show NightWash for WDR Fernsehen as from 26 September 2013.[7][8] Prior to this time, he had been employed by NightWash as intern and author.[3] Moreover, Mockridge moderated before an audience of 7,000 people on 14 October 2013 the 1LIVE Comedynacht XXL in the sold-out Lanxess Arena in Cologne. During 2013, he also appeared for a period of time non-regularly at the YouTube channel Ponk.

In 2014, Mockridge launched the YouTube channel Snoozzze, together with German Youtubers Julian "Julez" Weißbach and Joyce Ilg. In January 2014, he travelled to New York City with Stefan Raab and his show TV total on ProSieben and shot continuously for six days live for the Super Bowl XLVIII.

In 2016, it was announced that Mockridge would be a host on the Netflix reality show Ultimate Beastmaster.[9]

After Mockridge retired in September 2021 due to allegations of sexualized violence for an indefinite period of time, he resigned in December 2021 as part of an Instagram videos, inspired by the movie Love Actually, and announced that the tour Welcome to Luckyland would continue the following year.[10]

Awards

In 2013, Mockridge was awarded "Pascha des Monats" by EMMA magazine for making so called "Herrenwitze" (nearest equivalent: "sexist jokes") during a stand-up act.[11] Allegedly making fun of his ex-girlfriend was used as the reason for the prize. The programme in which the act occurred, claims, however, that the jokes were taken out of context.[3] In 2013, Mockridge was awarded the German Comedy Award as Best Newcomer.

References
  1. "Margie Kinsky mit Details aus ihrem Familienleben und sieben Kerlen". freundederkuenste.de (in German). 17 October 2014. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  2. Westfälische Nachrichten: Der blaublütige Comedian: Lucke Mockridge hat adelige Vorfahren, Münster, Münster, Martin Kalitschke, 4 March 2014
  3. Münstersche Zeitung: Interview mit Luke Mockridge: "Meine Mutter sagt, ich sei eine männliche Schlampe" Archived 11 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Münster-Kinderhaus, Andreas Jankowiak, 5 March 2014
  4. General-Anzeiger Bonn: Bonner Comedian kommt mit seinem Programm in die Springmaus: Interview mit Luke Mockridge (In German), Bonn, Kathrin-Alessa Weber, Nadja Berghahn
  5. Einsfestival: Die allerbeste Sebastian Winkler Show, 21 November 2013
  6. DWDL.de: Neues Kinder-Format: ZDF lässt Nachwuchs-Comedians Schulen besetzen, Uwe Mantel, 8 April 2013
  7. DWDL.de: Eine Ära geht zu Ende – Rückzug: Erfinder Knacki Deuser gibt "Nightwash" ab, Thomas Lückerath, 25 April 2013
  8. DWDL.de: Generationswechsel bei "NightWash": Deusers Nachfolger übernimmt Ende September, Alexander Krei, 3 September 2013
  9. Prudon, Laura (9 May 2016). "Netflix Orders Global Competition Series 'Ultimate Beastmaster' from Sylvester Stallone, Dave Broome". Variety. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  10. "Luke Mockridge kündigt Tour für 2022 an". t-online.de (in German). 23 December 2021. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
  11. "Pascha des Monats – Luke Mockridge". EMMA. Emma Frauenverlags GmbH. July–August 2013. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
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