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British Comedian
This is a list of comedians of British birth or famous mainly in Britain. Many of the comedy panel game, panel-game regulars and sitcom actors may not be regarded as comedians by some people but they are included here because this page uses the word "comedian" in its broadest possible sense. Fictional comedians are not included. Impressionists *Terry Alderton (born 1970), ''Spitting Image'' *Ronni Ancona (born 1968), ''Big Impression, Alistair McGowan's Big Impression'' *Chris Barrie (born 1960), ''Spitting Image'' *Stanley Baxter (born 1926) *Rory Bremner (born 1961) *Faith Brown (born 1944) *Paul Burling (born 1970) *Phil Cool (born 1948) *Brian Conley (born Aug 1961), ''Alive and Dangerous'' *Kevin Connelly, ''Dead Ringers (comedy), Dead Ringers'' *Jon Culshaw (born 1968), ''Dead Ringers'', ''2DTV'' *Bobby Davro (born 1958) *Dawn French (born 1957), ''French and Saunders'' *Peter Goodwright (1936–2020) *Mike Hayley *Dave Lamb, 2DTV, ''Goodness Gracious Me (BBC), Good ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panel Game
A panel show or panel game is a radio broadcasting, radio or television game show in which a panel of celebrities participates. Celebrity panelists may compete with each other, such as on ''The News Quiz''; facilitate play by non-celebrity contestants, such as on ''Match Game'' and ''Blankety Blank''; or do both, such as on ''Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me''. The genre can be traced to 1938, when ''Information Please'' debuted on United States, U.S. radio. The earliest known television panel show is ''Play the Game (American game show), Play the Game'', a charades show in 1946. The modern trend of comedy panel shows can find early roots with ''Stop Me If You've Heard This One'' in 1939 and ''Can You Top This?'' in 1940. While panel shows were more popular in the past in the U.S., they are still very common in the United Kingdom. Format While many early panel shows stuck to the traditional quiz show format in which celebrities tried to get the right answers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Davro
Robert Christopher Nankeville, known professionally as Bobby Davro (born 13 September 1958), is an English actor and comedian. He made his television debut in 1981 followed by breakthrough in ''Live from Her Majesty's'' (1983); this was followed by appearances on the television show ''Copy Cats''. Between 2007 and 2008, Davro played Vinnie Monks in the BBC One soap '' EastEnders''. He participated in '' Dancing on Ice'' in 2010, and took part in ''Your Face Sounds Familiar'' in 2013. Over the years, he has appeared in pantomime many times. Career Davro appeared on a variety of television shows, mostly with ITV, throughout the 1980s and 1990s. His popularity was at its highest during the mid-1980s with his own Saturday night ITV shows, ''Bobby Davro on the Box'', ''Bobby Davro's TV Annual'' and ''Bobby Davro's TV Weekly''. He also made appearances on the popular comedy impressions sketch show '' Copy Cats''. While he went on to make two more shows with Television South for ITV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debra Stephenson
Debra Stephenson (born 4 June 1972) is an English actress, comedian, impressionist and singer, best known for her roles as Diane Powell in ''Playing the Field'', Shell Dockley in '' Bad Girls'' and as Frankie Baldwin in ''Coronation Street''. Between 2009 and 2011, she co-starred with Jon Culshaw in '' The Impressions Show'', a comedy sketch show with impressions of top celebrities. Stephenson has voiced a number of characters for sketch shows such as '' Dead Ringers'' (2014–present) and ''Newzoids'' (2015–2016). She appeared, she appeared in the BBC daytime soap, ''Doctors'' as Charlotte Hill in March 2019. In 2018 she was regular team captain on the panel show ''The Imitation Game'' for ITV1, opposite Rory Bremner. Family Stephenson is an only child. Her parents live in the East Riding of Yorkshire. She is married with two teenage children. Career At the age of 14, Stephenson appeared on BBC TV's '' Opportunity Knocks'', winning her way through to the All-Winners' Fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Saunders
Jennifer Jane Saunders (born 6 July 1958) is an English actress, comedian, singer and screenwriter. Saunders originally found attention in the 1980s, when she became a member of The Comic Strip after graduating from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with her best friend and comedy partner, Dawn French. With French, she co-wrote and starred in their eponymous sketch show, ''French and Saunders'', for which they jointly received a BAFTA Fellowship in 2009. Saunders later received acclaim in the 1990s for writing and playing her character Edina Monsoon in her sitcom ''Absolutely Fabulous''. Early life Jennifer Jane Saunders was born on 6 July 1958 in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England.Hannah Hamad. Jennifer Saunders' — screenonline.org. Retrieved 4 October 2007. Her mother, Barbara Jane Saunders née Duminy, was a biology teacher, born in France, and her father, Robert Thomas Saunders, served as a pilot in the Royal Air Force (RAF). He reached the rank of group capt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morgana Robinson
Morgana Robinson (born 7 May 1982) is an Australian-born English impressionist, comedian, writer and actress, who is best known for her comedy sketch programme ''The Morgana Show'', ''Morgana Robinson's The Agency'', appearances on ''The TNT Show'', '' House of Fools'' and '' Very Important People''. Early life Robinson was born in Shepparton, Victoria, in Australia. Her family moved to England when she was three. She was educated at Benenden School in Kent. On her father's side, Robinson has four elder half-siblings, one of whom is Brody Dalle (born Bree Joanna Alice Robinson) of the punk rock band the Distillers and alternative rock band Spinnerette. They first met as adults, backstage at one of Dalle's 2004 concerts at the Brixton Academy. Television career Robinson's television debut came in 2007, as she played an Eastern European internet bride in BBC One's comedy ''The Green Green Grass''. She then starred in the TV pilot ''Eight Steps to Enlightenment and a Nervous Brea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Ravens
Janet "Jan" Ravens (born 14 May 1958) is an English actress and impressionist, known for her voice work on ''Spitting Image'' and '' Dead Ringers''. Early life Ravens grew up in Hoylake, then in Cheshire, on the west side of the Wirral with her father, a local government clerk, and her mother, a nurse. She attended West Kirby Grammar School for Girls, where Radio 4 presenter Sheila McClennon (''You and Yours'') was two years below her. She studied education studies and drama at Homerton College, Cambridge and was first female president of Cambridge University Footlights Club in 1979–80. Career After Cambridge, Ravens became a radio comedy producer. Her first television role was in the ITV series, 'Just Amazing'. She joined Jasper Carrott's comedy, ''Carrott's Lib'', in 1983. In 1986, she played the heavily pregnant Vanessa Plowright in the "Tourists" episode of ''Farrington of the F.O.'' (broadcast 13 March). In 1986, she accompanied then husband Steve Brown on the Capital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Perry (impressionist)
Mark Perry (born Phillip Perry) is a British impressionist and his notable impressions include David Dickinson, John Prescott and Robin Cook. Perry is known for playing various public figures in '' Dead Ringers'' and ''2DTV''.New Statesman – Volume 139- Page 13 2010 "Mark Perry, star of the TV and radio series Dead Ringers, was offered a slice of Ashcroft's zillions to impersonate the dour Broon. David Cameron never tires of telling us how he deplores Labour's negative campaigning but it's a safe bet that " In 2007 he appeared in the radio comedy ''Bleak Expectations''. He has won several awards, including a Sony Radio Award for ''Dead Ringers'' (2000), a BAFTA for ''Double Take'' and Golden Rose of Montreux for 2DTV.PERRY, Mark (né Philip Perry), ''Debrett's People of Today'', November 2007. He can also be seen as an extra playing a Gallifreyan Guard in the 1983 Doctor Who story ''Arc of Infinity''. He was recently heard as Gerry (temporary chairman of the board of directors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Impression
''The Big Impression'', known as ''Alistair McGowan's Big Impression'' for the first three series, is a British comedy sketch show. It features Alistair McGowan and Ronni Ancona impersonating personalities from entertainment and sport. Four series and a number of specials were made by Vera Productions and it was first broadcast on BBC One between 2000 and 2004. The series has won five awards, including the BAFTA TV Award for Best Comedy Programme or Series in 2003. Production McGowan and Ancona first met at a comedy club, and later started dating. They worked together on a number of projects, with their first television series being ''The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand de Bargos'' in 1989. After performing in his own show in Edinburgh in 1998, McGowan was approached by a BBC executive about working on a series, which he wanted Ancona to be involved in. ''Alistair McGowan's Big Impression'' first aired on BBC One in 2000, with the couple splitting up just before filming began. Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alistair McGowan
Alistair Charles McGowan (born 24 November 1964) is an English impressionist, comic, actor, singer and writer best known to British audiences for ''The Big Impression'' (formerly ''Alistair McGowan's Big Impression''), which was, for four years, one of BBC1's top-rating comedy programmes – winning numerous awards, including a BAFTA in 2003. He has also worked extensively in theatre and appeared in the West End in ''Art'', ''Cabaret'', ''The Mikado'' and '' Little Shop of Horrors'' (for which he received a ''Laurence Olivier Award'' nomination). As a television actor, he played the lead role in BBC1's ''Mayo''. He wrote the play ''Timing'' (nominated as Best New Comedy at the whatsonstage.com awards) and the book ''A Matter of Life and Death or How to Wean Your Man off Football'' with former comedy partner Ronni Ancona. He also provided voices for ''Spitting Image''. He made his debut broadcast as a tennis commentator for BBC Sport at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships. In 2012, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goodness Gracious Me (BBC)
''Goodness Gracious Me'' is a BBC sketch comedy show originally aired on BBC Radio 4 from 1996 to 1998 and later televised on BBC Two from 1998 to 2001. The ensemble cast were four British Asian actors, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Kulvinder Ghir, Meera Syal and Nina Wadia. The show explored British Asian culture, and the conflict and integration between traditional South Asian culture and modern British life. Some sketches reversed the roles to view the British from a South Asian perspective, and others poked fun at South Asian stereotypes. In the television series, most of the white characters were played by Dave Lamb and Fiona Allen; in the radio series those parts were played by the cast themselves. Some of the white characters were also played by Amanda Holden and Emma Kennedy. The show's title and theme tune is a bhangra rearrangement of the comedy song of the same name, originally performed by Peter Sellers (portraying an Indian doctor, Ahmed el Kabir) and Sophia Loren, reprising ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Lamb
David Alexander Lamb (born 17 January 1969) is an English actor, comedian, narrator and presenter. He is best known for his narration work on '' Come Dine with Me'' as well as appearances in British television and radio programmes, especially comedy programmes like '' Goodness Gracious Me''. He also presented the CBBC game show '' Horrible Histories: Gory Games''. Early life Lamb attended the Broxbourne School in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, and studied philosophy and literature at the University of Warwick. Early work Lamb's first noted credit was in the 1998 British sitcom ''How Do You Want Me?'' He played a homophobic tramp called Buster. His first notable appearances were in the British Indian sketch show '' Goodness Gracious Me'', being the only recurring white person in the cast. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s he also appeared in comedy programmes such as '' People Like Us'', ''Hippies'', ''Armstrong and Miller'', ''The Smoking Room'' and ''Fun at the Funeral Parlour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Hayley
Mike Hayley is a British actor, comedian, impressionist and writer. He starred alongside Susie Blake, Caroline Leddy, James Gaddas, Mike Doyle (comedian) in the BBC's sketch show, ''Something for the Weekend'' (1989) and Shane Richie, David Schneider (actor), Suzy Aitchison, Frances Dodge, & Lewis MacLeod (actor) in ''Up to Something'' (1990). He and Alan Francis wrote the play ''Jeffrey Dahmer is Unwell'', taking it to the Edinburgh Festival in 1995. He also co-presented the Emotional Collection at the Gilded Balloon with Rhona Cameron at the Edinburgh Festival before this. He provided the voice of Colonel White in the CGI remake of '' Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet'' and has had minor roles in several big budget films, including the 2000 film ''102 Dalmatians ''102 Dalmatians'' is a 2000 American crime comedy film directed by Kevin Lima and produced by Edward S. Feldman and Walt Disney Pictures. The sequel to the 1996 film '' 101 Dalmatians'', a live-action re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
