Micky Flanagan

Micky Flanagan
Flanagan in 2010
Birth name	Michael Flanagan
Born	October 1962 (age 54) Whitechapel, London, England
Medium	Television, radio, stand-up
Years active	1997–present
Website	mickyflanagan.com

Michael "Micky" Flanagan (born October 1962) is an English comedian. Flanagan has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe and toured Britain with stand-up shows. He presented Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change? for Radio 4 and has appeared on various TV shows including Mock the Week, A League of Their Own, 8 Out of 10 Cats and Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow. He released his debut DVD in November 2011.

Flanagan was born in Whitechapel, East London and grew up on a council estate in Bethnal Green. He left school at the age of 15 with no qualifications. His first job was as a fish porter at Billingsgate Fish Market, after which he lived in New York for a year where he worked as a dishwasher and chef. After returning to London he worked as a furniture maker for several years. On an episode of 8 Out of 10 Cats, he also revealed he was once a window cleaner.

Flanagan resumed education at the age of 25, beginning with a GCSE in English and going on to a foundation course in arts and social sciences and a degree at City University, which he began aged 29. He went on to train as a teacher by taking the Postgraduate Certificate in Education, but decided not to pursue teaching as a career, later describing the experience as "the unhappiest year of my life ... everything that was wrong about the school system when I was young was still the same". He is of Irish descent.