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Jamie Demetriou
Jamie Demetriou (born November 1987) is an English comedian, actor and screenwriter. He is best known for his role as Bus Rodent in ''Fleabag'' and for creating, co-writing, and starring in ''Stath Lets Flats''. For the latter, he won Best Male Actor in a Comedy, Best Writer of a Comedy, and Best Scripted Comedy at the 2020 BAFTA Awards. Early life Demetriou was born in the Friern Barnet area of London the son of an English mother and Greek-Cypriot father. His elder sister, Natasia Demetriou, is a comedian and actress with whom he often collaborates. He attended The Compton School in North Finchley and joined the Chickenshed Theatre in Southgate, then attended Bristol University. Career Demetriou's student revue show ''Bristol Revunions'' received critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival from 2009 to 2011. His one-man multi-character show ''People Day'' later drew a comparison with Steve Coogan in ''The Independent''. Comedic television acting credits include '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friern Barnet
Friern Barnet is a suburban area within the London Borough of Barnet, north of Charing Cross. Its centre is formed by the busy intersection of Colney Hatch Lane (running north and south), Woodhouse Road (taking westbound traffic towards North Finchley) and Friern Barnet Road (leading east towards New Southgate). History Friern Barnet was an ancient parish in the Finsbury division of Ossulstone hundred, in the county of Middlesex. The area was originally considered to be part of Barnet, most of which was in Hertfordshire. By the 13th century the Middlesex section of Barnet was known as Little Barnet, before becoming Frerenbarnet and then Friern Barnet (sometimes spelt in other ways, such as "Fryern Barnett"). The "Friern" part of the parish's name derives from the French for "brother" and refers to the medieval lordship of the Brotherhood or Knights of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. Friern Barnet was mainly rural until the 19th century. The opening of Colney Hatch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drunk History (UK TV Series)
''Drunk History'' is a British comedy television series that premiered on Comedy Central on 12 January 2015. It is based on the American television series of the same name. In each episode, a celebrity (usually a comedian) struggles to recount a historical event while intoxicated. Their account is then reconstructed by actors. The show is narrated by Jimmy Carr. The second series began broadcasting in February 2016. A special edition featuring Holly Hagan and Gaz Beadle from the MTV show ''Geordie Shore ''Geordie Shore'' is a British reality television series that was broadcast on MTV between 24 May 2011 and 22 November 2022. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England it was the British offshoot of the American show ''Jersey Shore''. The programm ...'' was broadcast on MTV on 23 February 2016. The third series began airing on 8 March 2017 at 10pm on Comedy Central UK. Episodes Series 1 Series 2 Series 3 Specials References External links * *{{British Comedy Gui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Earl (actor)
David Geoffrey Earl (born 20 March 1974) is a British people, British actor and comedian, best known for his comedy character Brian Gittins. He has featured in several projects associated with Ricky Gervais, most notably as Kevin "Kev" Twine in the comedy-drama ''Derek (TV series), Derek'', and in smaller roles in ''Extras (TV series), Extras'', ''After Life (TV series), After Life'' and the film ''Cemetery Junction (film), Cemetery Junction''. Earl also works frequently with comic Joe Wilkinson. Together they co-wrote and starred in the sitcom Rovers (UK TV series), ''Rovers'', and the comedy series ''The Cockfields''. They also host three podcasts called ''Gossipmongers'', ''Chatabix'' and ''My New Football Club''. He also co-wrote and starred in the feature film Brian and Charles where he plays an isolated inventor who builds a robot. Early life Earl was born in Crawley on 20 March 1974. Before undertaking acting roles, Earl worked as a gardener and as a van driver, delive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Distraction Pieces Podcast
''The Distraction Pieces Podcast'' is a weekly conversational podcast created and hosted by English spoken word poet and hip-hop artist Scroobius Pip. The podcast began on 13 October 2014 and has been released weekly ever since. Format The podcasts are usually around one hour in duration and are released every Wednesday. Pip switched to this format from his radio show on Xfm after appearing on ''The Joe Rogan Experience'' and hearing other American long-form interview podcasters such as Marc Maron. Speaking with ''The Observer'''s Killian Fox, Pip described the podcast as "interesting conversations with interesting people", adding "obviously it's important to have some big names in there, such as Simon Pegg, Alan Moore and Billy Bragg, but we've also had people such as Dr Suzi Gage, who studies recreational drugs and their potential benefits and negatives, and the mortician Carla Valentine talking about the taboo of death. It can get incredibly heavy – we've had debates about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scroobius Pip
David Peter Meads (born 3 August 1981), known professionally and personally as Scroobius Pip (Dave), is an English actor and podcaster as well as a former spoken word poet and hip hop recording artist from Stanford-le-Hope, Essex. He first gained prominence as one half of hip hop duo Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip sparked by their debut single "Thou Shalt Always Kill". He manages his own record label, Speech Development Records. He hosted the award-winning weekly radio show ''The Beatdown'' on XFM in the late 2000s and currently hosts the ''Distraction Pieces Podcast''. In August 2016, he released a book entitled ''Distraction Pieces''. He appears as French Bill, an assistant to Atticus, in the eight-part historical fiction series ''Taboo'' (2017) on BBC One and FX. Early career As a teenager, Scroobius Pip was inspired by punk music to buy a guitar and form various bands with his friends. His musical tastes quickly grew to encompass genres including hip hop and jazz and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Academy Television Award For Best Scripted Comedy
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *'' Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * Briton ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Academy Television Award For Best Male Comedy Performance
This page lists the winners and nominees for the British Academy Television Award for Best Male Comedy Performance, since its institution in 2009. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, children's film and television, and interactive media. Since 2009 (presented in 2010), there have been two separate comedy performance awards for Best Male Comedy Performance and Best Female Comedy Performance. Previously one award for Best Comedy Performance was presented. Steve Coogan has won the award three times, and Jamie Demetriou twice. Winners and nominees 2010s 2020s Superlatives Actors with multiple wins and nominations Multiple wins 3 wins *Steve Coogan 2 wins *Jamie Demetriou Multiple nominations The following people have been nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Male Comedy Performance multiple times: 4 nominations * Hugh Bonneville *Steve Coogan 3 no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Academy Television Awards
The BAFTA TV Awards, or British Academy Television Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the BAFTA. They have been awarded annually since 1955. Background The first-ever Awards, given in 1955, consisted of six categories. Until 1958, they were awarded by the Guild of Television Producers and Directors. From 1958 onwards, after the Guild had merged with the British Film Academy, the organisation was known as the Society of Film and Television Arts. In 1976, this became the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. From 1968 until 1997, the BAFTA Film and Television awards were presented in one joint ceremony known simply as the BAFTA Awards, but in order to streamline the ceremonies from 1998 onwards they were split in two. The Television Awards are usually presented in April, with a separate ceremony for the Television Craft Awards on a different date. The Craft Awards are presented for more technical areas of the industry, such as special effects, production ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dustin Demri-Burns
Dustin Demri-Burns (born 11 July 1978) is a British actor, comedian and writer. He is best known for his work in ''Cardinal Burns''. He appeared in films as the roles of Danny Sinclair in the 2013 film '' Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa'' (2013), Viktor in the 2018 action comedy film '' The Spy Who Dumped Me'' (2018) and Crazy Cedric in the 2019 comedy film '' Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans'' (2019). In television, he appeared in shows as Julian in ''Stath Lets Flats'', Will_5000 in ''Sick Note'', Simon in '' GameFace'', Daniel in ''Turn Up Charlie'' and Voltaire in ''The Great''. Early life Demri-Burns was born in Lancaster, Lancashire on 11 July 1978. He attended Elliott School, Putney, Putney Heath, South West London (1989–96). He graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art with a degree in acting. Career Demri-Burns started his acting career when he played a minor character in the 2003 short film ''Nightswimming'' (2003). His film credits in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katy Wix
Katy Victoria J Wix (born 28 February 1980) is a Welsh actress, writer, author and artist. She is best known for her television roles as Carole in ''Stath Lets Flats,'' Mary in ''Ghosts'' and Jules in '' Big Boys''. She has also appeared as a series contestant on '' Taskmaster'' and as a recurring character in the science fiction mini-series '' Torchwood: Children of Earth'' in 2009. She has written two series of her own sitcom for ''BBC Radio 4'', '' Bird Island'' and a sketch show for Channel 4, ''Anna & Katy''. In 2017 her painting was chosen for the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition. She has written two books of monologues and in 2021 she published her first work of non-fiction, ''Delicacy''. Early life Wix was born and grew up in Cardiff. She attended the University of Warwick in Coventry before going on to the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Career In 2007, Wix joined the cast of sitcom '' Not Going Out'' as recurring character Daisy and then went on to be a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Popper
Robert Darren Popper (born 23 November 1967) is a British comedy producer, writer, actor, and author, best known as co-creator of the mock BBC documentary '' Look Around You'', and creator of Channel 4's sitcom ''Friday Night Dinner''. He also wrote the books ''The Timewaster Letters'', ''Return of The Timewaster Letters'' and ''The Timewaster Diaries'' under the pseudonym Robin Cooper. Personal life Popper was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School and is Jewish. Television and film Popper began his career in British television working for The Comic Strip under Peter Richardson. He then worked on the Channel 4 show, ''The Big Breakfast'', writing for comedy puppets, Zig and Zag. He also made his first appearance as a comedian on '' The Eleven O'Clock Show'' as character Simon Michael Simon. Later, he was employed as a Commissioning Editor for Entertainment and Comedy at Channel 4. His commissioning credits include the series '' Bo' Selecta!'', '' Black Books'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friday Night Dinner
''Friday Night Dinner'' is a British television sitcom written by Robert Popper and starring Tamsin Greig, Paul Ritter, Simon Bird, Tom Rosenthal, and Mark Heap. The comedy is focused on the regular dinner experience of the middle-class British Jewish Goodman family every Friday night. The series aired from 2011 to 2020 on Channel 4. Following the conclusion of the sixth series and Paul Ritter's death in 2021, it was announced that the show would not return. The show received two BAFTA nominations in 2012. The first series was nominated for Best Situation Comedy, while Greig was nominated for Best Female Comedy Performance. In 2021, for his performance in the final series of the show, Ritter received a posthumous BAFTA nomination for Best Male Comedy Performance. Premise ''Friday Night Dinner'' depicts Shabbat dinner in the middle-class secular Jewish Goodman family, reflecting writer and producer Robert Popper's own secular Jewish upbringing. It is set in suburban N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
