Jamali Maddix
Jamali Maddix (born 15 April 1991) is an English stand-up comedian. Maddix is notable for winning the Chortle Student Comedian of the Year award in 2014 and hosting a documentary series on extremism titled "Hate Thy Neighbor" in partnership with Vice in 2016. He also appears as a regular on the reboot of "Never Mind the Buzzcocks". Section::::"Hate Thy Neighbor". "Hate Thy Neighbor" is a Viceland series in which Maddix interviews extremists from around the world to understand how they think. In the documentary, Maddix goes on tour and interviews members of hate groups such as NSM , Azov, Nordic Youth, Black Hebrew Israelites and the EDL. Section::::"Taskmaster". Maddix appeared on series 11 of "Taskmaster", which was broadcast in 2021 from April to May. He came in fourth place. Personal life. Maddix's father is Jamaican and his mother's father is Greek, although for many years he had believed him to be Italian. In an episode of "Big Zuu's Big Eats" recorded 12 December 2019, he said "My dad is Jamaican, my mum didn't know her pops and she always told me he was Italian, for some reason. I don't know, she said he 's Italian, that's all she'll say, 'Ah, he's Italian.' And I remember, I was talking to mum one day and she goes, 'Ah no, he was Greek.' So, now I'm a quarter Greek, but I never knew I was a quarter Greek until now and, you know, all right." Jamali was born in Ilford, East London and still lives there as of 2015.