Ian Cognito
Age: 60 | From: London, United Kingdom
Person Details
Birthday: 1958-11-21 16:31:23
Death: 2019-04-11 16:31:23
Aliases: Paul Barbieri
Gender: Male
Place of birth: London, United Kingdom
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 2
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
Ian Cognito (real name Paul John Barbieri) was a British alternative comedian of Italian Irish descent. He won the Time Out Award for Stand-up Comedy in 1999 but famously never appeared on TV, nor did he ever want to. Cognito had an aggressive stage persona and a reputation as Britain’s "most banned" comic, again another reason for never appearing on TV. Nevertheless, he was widely rated as a masterful performer with an innate grasp of stagecraft, inviting comparisons to iconoclasts like Lenny Bruce, Bill Hicks, and Jerry Sadowitz. He died on stage of a heart attack on 11 April 2019 at the Lone Wolf comedy club in Bicester, aged just 60.
Most Famous Work
Filth!
(1994) WriterActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Self (archive) | |
| 1994 | Ian Cognito (Paul Barbieri) | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
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| 1994 | Writer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |