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Kings Of Comedy (British TV Series)
''Kings of Comedy'' is a reality television game show broadcast made by Endemol West for Channel 4. The show is presented by Russell Brand and narrated by Matthew Rudge. The premise was that eight comics lived in a '' Big Brother''-style house to try to determine whether old-school comics or the newer generation are best. The winner (Andrew Maxwell) got the chance to make his own pilot show. Contestants New comics * Janey Godley * Boothby Graffoe * Andrew Maxwell * Ava Vidal Old comics * Stan Boardman * David Copperfield * Mick Miller * Scott Capurro Scott Allen Capurro (born December 10, 1962) is an American comedian, writer and actor based in San Francisco. His comedy material is deliberately provocative, referring often to gay life and culture, politics, race and racism, and popular cultu ... References External links * * 2000s British comedy television series 2000s British reality television series 2004 British television series debuts 2004 British tele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reality Television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring unfamiliar people rather than professional actors. Reality television emerged as a distinct genre in the early 1990s with shows such as '' The Real World'', then achieved prominence in the early 2000s with the success of the series '' Survivor'', '' Idols'', and '' Big Brother'', all of which became global franchises. Reality television shows tend to be interspersed with "confessionals", short interview segments in which cast members reflect on or provide context for the events being depicted on-screen; this is most commonly seen in American reality television. Competition-based reality shows typically feature gradual elimination of participants, either by a panel of judges, by the viewership of the show, or by the contestants themselves. Documentaries, television news, sports television, talk shows, and traditional game shows are generally not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ava Vidal
Ava Beverley Vidal (; born 1976 in Lambeth, London) is an English comedian. She has taken part in E4's '' Kings of Comedy''. Her career in comedy began on the BBC's ''Urban Sketch Show''. Life and career In 1996, Vidal began working as a prison officer at HM Prison Pentonville in Barnsbury, North London. She was inspired to go into the field by her mother, who worked at HM Prison Holloway. Vidal decided to quit the prison profession in 2001 to go to university and study law. Around this time, she also began writing comedy material. Vidal appeared in ''28 Acts in 28 Minutes'' and '' The Comic Side of 7 Days'' in 2005. She has also been involved in other BBC shows including '' The Last Laugh'', '' The Sack Race'' and ''The Crouches''. Vidal was a housemate in '' Kings of Comedy'' on E4, and Channel 4 made a documentary about her called ''From the Top'', a half-hour show explaining her journey in comedy so far and how she became a comedian. Vidal was on the line-up of ''Michael ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Channel 4 Original Programming
Channel, channels, channeling, etc., may refer to: Geography * Channel (geography), in physical geography, a landform consisting of the outline (banks) of the path of a narrow body of water. Australia * Channel Country, region of outback Australia in Queensland and partly in South Australia, Northern Territory and New South Wales. * Channel Highway, a regional highway in Tasmania, Australia. Europe * Channel Islands, an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy * Channel Tunnel or Chunnel, a rail tunnel underneath the English Channel * English Channel, called simply "The Channel", the part of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Great Britain from northern France North America * Channel Islands of California, a chain of eight islands located in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California, United States * Channel Lake, Illinois, a census-designated place in Lake County, Illinois, United States * Channels State Forest, a state forest in Virgini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 British Television Series Endings
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. In mathematics Four is the smallest composite number, its proper divisors being and . Four is the sum and product of two with itself: 2 + 2 = 4 = 2 x 2, the only number b such that a + a = b = a x a, which also makes four the smallest squared prime number p^. In Knuth's up-arrow notation, , and so forth, for any number of up arrows. By consequence, four is the only square one more than a prime number, specifically three. The sum of the first four prime numbers two + three + five + seven is the only sum of four consecutive prime numbers that yields an odd prime number, seventeen, which is the fourth super-prime. Four lies between the first proper pair of twin primes, three and five, which are the first two Fermat primes, like seventeen, which is the third. On the other h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 British Television Series Debuts
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. In mathematics Four is the smallest composite number, its proper divisors being and . Four is the sum and product of two with itself: 2 + 2 = 4 = 2 x 2, the only number b such that a + a = b = a x a, which also makes four the smallest squared prime number p^. In Knuth's up-arrow notation, , and so forth, for any number of up arrows. By consequence, four is the only square one more than a prime number, specifically three. The sum of the first four prime numbers two + three + five + seven is the only sum of four consecutive prime numbers that yields an odd prime number, seventeen, which is the fourth super-prime. Four lies between the first proper pair of twin primes, three and five, which are the first two Fermat primes, like seventeen, which is the third. On t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s British Reality Television Series
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s British Comedy Television Series
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Capurro
Scott Allen Capurro (born December 10, 1962) is an American comedian, writer and actor based in San Francisco. His comedy material is deliberately provocative, referring often to gay life and culture, politics, race and racism, and popular culture. Career In 1994 he was awarded the Perrier Award for best newcomer at the Edinburgh Festival. In 1999 he played the voice of Beed Annodue along with actor, comedian, and friend Greg Proops in ''Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace''. In 2001, Capurro appeared on Australian show ''Rove Live'' and shocked the host, Rove McManus, with an explicit routine. Rove apologized immediately after the performance. In 2002, he presented a light-hearted documentary on the UK's Channel 4 called ''The Truth About Gay Animals'' which examined the subject of homosexuality in animals. Capurro visited various collections of captive animals to observe animals which had been reported to exhibit homosexual behaviour, and interviewed the staff abou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mick Miller (comedian)
Mick Miller (born 25 February 1950 in Liverpool, England) is an English stand-up comedian who has had a long career on the live comedy circuit, and has a trademark haircut of a bald head with long hair down the sides. Early days Miller was born as Michael Lawton on 25 February 1950 in Liverpool, England. Miller's first ambition was to be a footballer. He played as a goalkeeper, and as a boy he signed for Port Vale when Sir Stanley Matthews was the club's general manager and had a trial for the England youth team. When he left football, he began performing at Pontins, where he became interested in stand-up comedy. After being chief comedian at various Pontins venues, he moved to the North of England and embarked upon a career in the clubs. Stand-up career Having won his heat on the talent show ''New Faces'', Miller was then signed to support Chuck Berry on tour. Since then, he has been a regular at Blackpool, working men's clubs, cruises and after dinner speeches. His shows ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Copperfield (comedian)
David Copperfield (born Stanley Barlow, 1947, Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire) is a British comedian who is best known for his role in the 1980s BBC sketch show '' Three of a Kind'', in which he starred alongside Tracey Ullman and Lenny Henry. Career Copperfield began his professional career performing in various cabaret venues. His first TV appearances were on the '' Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club.'' His big break in TV earned him appearances on ''Wogan'' and ''Cliff and Friends''. ''Three of a Kind'' ran from 1981 to 1983. After that, Copperfield worked on his own shows, ''Coppers & Co'' and ''Copperfield Comedy Company''. He then worked on cruise liners as an entertainer under the name "David Copperfield – Not the Magician" (distinguishing himself from the American illusionist of the same name), including the QE2 on its final voyage to Dubai. In addition to comedy he sings, plays the violin, piano, guitar and mandolin and performs ventriloquism. He is particular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Boardman
Stanley Boardman (born 7 December 1937) is an English comedian. Early life and career Boardman was evacuated with his family to Wrexham during the Second World War, and after the family returned to their Merseyside home mistakenly thinking the area had escaped the German bombs, his elder brother Tommy was killed in a bombing raid. He had been a keen footballer in his youth and was an apprentice at Liverpool F.C. He signed for Tranmere Rovers as a teenager. Boardman ran a haulage firm before winning a holiday camp talent contest and breaking into television on '' Opportunity Knocks'' and '' The Comedians''. Boardman became known for his anti-German jokes, with his claim that "the Germans bombed our chippy" during the Second World War. His later involvement in football includes being invited by Ron Atkinson to entertain his Sheffield Wednesday and Aston Villa players before the League Cup finals in 1991 and 1994. Controversies An incident during a live edition of ''Des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Maxwell
Andrew Maxwell (born 3 December 1974) is an Irish comedian and narrator, known for narrating the MTV reality series '' Ex on the Beach''. Career In 1992, Maxwell tried stand-up comedy for the first time at the Comedy Cellar at The International Bar in Dublin, and from 1995, he made regular appearances on BBC Two's ''Sunday Show''. Other credits for Maxwell include '' RI:SE'' as the United States correspondent, a regular guest slot on a weekly topical comedy-style chat show '' The Panel'' which ran on Irish channel RTÉ One from 2003 until 2011, and regular appearances on British TV shows '' Never Mind the Buzzcocks'' and ''Mock the Week''. He appeared on the '' Secret Policeman's Ball'' in 2006, while a ''Funny Cuts'' special for E4, called ''Andrew Maxwell – My Name Up In Lights'' aired that same year. In 2014, Maxwell appeared in Comedy Central's ''Drunk History'' and was the narrator of '' Ex on the Beach'', an MTV reality television series. Maxwell has narrated every ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
