Early Years
Amstell was born in Gants Hill, Redbridge, East London in 1979, to David and Tina (née Leventhal) Amstell. He was brought up in a Jewish family. He was educated at Beal High School, a state comprehensive school in Ilford. When he appeared on Family Catchphrase, his aunt Kim mentioned that he was the eldest of four siblings. His parents' divorce in the early 1990s has been a constant theme throughout his stand-up career, and he says that their decision, when he was a born, to circumcise him, had caused him a sense of great emotional as well as physical loss.
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