He often works with best friend David Baddiel, notably on the popular late night entertainment show Fantasy Football League, when the two famously shared an apartment, and on Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned. They wrote and performed the football song "Three Lions" with the Lightning Seeds and the England national football team for Euro 96, and re-released it for the 1998 World Cup. Both times the song reached #1 in the British charts.
He is one of the UKs most famous stand-up comedians.
With David Baddiel , he sang the vocals to "Three Lions", the official England song released to celebrate the 1996 UEFA European Championships. The track topped the charts in summer 1996 and an updated version topped the charts in summer 1998 to celebrate Englands participation in that years FIFA World Cup.
He chose the stage name Frank Skinner after a man in his fathers pub dominoes team.
As a self-confessed reformed alcoholic, he hasnt had a drink since September 1987.
He is a passionate Elvis Presley fan and purchased one of Elvis shirt from a US auction for $15,000.
He left school with no qualifications and worked in a metal factory. He enrolled in night school and eventually enrolled at University and graduated with a Masters degree in English literature.
He was previously an English tutor at Halesowen College in Dudley, England.
He won the Perrier Award for Comedy at the Edinburgh festival in 1991, narrowly beating Eddie Izzard.
He performed first ever stand up comedy gig at the Portland Club in Edgbaston, Birmingham in 1987 aged thirty.
He shared a flat with best-friend and frequent co-presenter David Baddiel for four years.
He is a passionate supporter of West Bromwich Albion (The Baggies) Football Club from the English Premier League.
He was awarded the freeman of the borough (for Sandwell, West Midlands) in March 2004.
He was brought up in Oldbury, West Midlands which is not far from West Bromwich. Probably uses West Bromwich as his home town because most people know it for West Bromwich Albion football club and Oldbury is relatively unknown.
He plays the Ukulele like his idol, George Formby.
He has two brothers called Terry and Keith.
He has one sister called Nora.
He has a girlfriend called Caroline.
I hate classical music in all its manifestations.
I vote Labour because I have an emotional attachment to my working-class,background and I like the idea of being someone who cares about the,lowly more than my own tax rate. Obviously, that wavers but I feel like,the moment I vote, I am seeing through that ideal of myself.
[on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) ] Is,it just me or are Indiana Jones and Freddy Krueger getting closer,together?,[on suggestions Trading Places (1983) is racist, sexist and,homophobic] In those days that was a rattling good review.
[on the 1966 World Cup final] I watched it live and I remember it being,awful.
Cider was my drink because I liked the taste and it made me stupid.
