Jay Mullen | Actor / London Knight

Jay is believed to have been created by the Gods, gifted with superhuman creativity, and sculpted to perfection by the blind girl from the Lionel Richie ‘Hello’ music video, but his journey to celebrated comedy deity was paved with misfortune.

Jay thought he found fame auditioning for the 2010 Albanian talent show ‘Ti Vien’, with his Bruce Forsythe impression, but the show was cancelled and rebranded as Albania’s Got Talent, on which Jay was not asked to perform.

Jay believes he was snubbed for the show by AGT judge Altin Basha, due to Jay’s scathing comments of Mr. Basha’s directing on the Albanian comedy show ‘Portokalli’. Jay is quoted as saying and I quote “The directing is alright, I guess.” end quote, words Jay would live to regret!

From this point, Jay’s life became very bleak and he fell in with the wrong crowd. Jay joined a gang of street performance artists, performing mime and impromptu improvised skits. Jay thought his life couldn’t get any lower, that is until Jay developed an addiction to ‘Benylin’.

One night as Jay was at the pique of his glycerol and sucrose high, he was transported to Mount Olympus for a conflab with the Gods. Struck by Apollo’s lighting bolt, an idea formed.

It was Jay’s mission to form the greatest comedy group the world had ever seen, but first Jay had to suffer from several nights of cold turkey as he weened himself from the sugary cough syrup. Jay also had to give 2-weeks notice to his fellow street performers, whilst they found his replacement, but then in that delayed moment of God-inspired genius, Functional Rejects was born!