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Chris Tordoff is an English-born Irish comedian, actor, writer, YouTuber, and live streamer. He is best known for co-creating the RTÉ mockumentary sitcom Hardy Bucks, in which he plays drug dealer Francis "The Viper" Higgins. He has reprised the role in other media, such as The Hardy Bucks Movie, the comedy series Republic of Telly and Viper's View, and on his own YouTube and Twitch channels.

Chris Tordoff
Born	Chris Tordoff Leeds, England
Occupation	Comedian, actor, writer, YouTuber, live streamer
Years active	2009–present

Early life

Tordoff was born in Leeds, England, and moved to Swinford, County Mayo, Ireland, as a teenager.[1]

Career

Tordoff co-created Hardy Bucks with his friend Martin Maloney as a web series on YouTube in 2009. He wrote for it, directed it, and acted in it, portraying the antagonist Francis "The Viper" Higgins, a small-time drug dealer. In 2009, it won RTÉ Television's Storyland competition, and was commissioned as a series for television.[2] For the second series, Liz Gill took over directorial duties from Tordoff.[3] He reprised the role in the 2013 film based on the series, The Hardy Bucks Movie.[4] Tordoff was also a guest on Republic of Telly on RTÉ.

Tordoff also creates online comedy on his own YouTube channel, under the name Francis Higgins. One series, World News, was a parodical news show inspired by a segment on Euronews called No Comment. Tordoff used clips from No Comment to produce his own videos, but was threatened with legal action by Euronews in 2016. This led to Tordoff being commissioned by RT UK to produce 50 episodes of Viper's View, as an insert for Sam Delaney's News Thing.[5][6][7]

Since 2019, Tordoff has regularly streamed video games on his YouTube channel, playing them in character either as Francis Higgins, Tommy Shlug (a bus driver from the west of Ireland), Conor Williams (a D4 sales executive for Mercedes Ireland), or Fontaine (a gritty New York detective), as well as others.[8][9]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2013	The Hardy Bucks Movie	Francis 'The Viper' Higgins
2016	Digs for Pennies	Matty Gandon	Short film

Television

Title	Year	Role	Network	Notes	Ref(s)
Hardy Bucks	2010–present	Francis 'The Viper' Higgins	RTÉ Two	20 episodes Also director and writer	[10]
The Republic of Telly	2011–2016	Donnie's Irish cousin Francis 'The Viper' Higgins		50 episodes	[11]

Awards

In October 2016, Chris Tordoff was nominated for an IFTA in the Best Male Performance category for his role as Francis Higgins, losing out to Red Rock's Sean Mahon.[12]

References

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