His deadpan style has won him a small but devoted number of followers. Stewart Lee has often cited Chippington as the reason he began stand-up comedy, describing Chippington's act as "a mixture of surrealism and insolent provocation and uncompromising boredom"[1] and citing him as "the first post-alternative comedian".[2] Another admirer, Richard Herring, talks of Chippington's "contempt for the very idea of jokes".[3] For his part Chippington - who describes his own act as being influenced by Lenny Bruce and Owd Grandad Piggott [4] - says he is an "anti-comedian" and that he only started doing his act "to annoy people".