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Pappy's
Pappy's is a British three-man comedy act, composed of comedians Ben Clark, Matthew Crosby and Tom Parry. The sketch troupe previously performed shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, but now mostly talk on podcasts about balconies and spaghetti. They regularly produce podcasts under the ''Pappy's Flatshare'' heading, and created and starred in the BBC Three sitcom ''Badults''. History Pappy's started out as a four-man comedy collective called "Pappy's Fun Club", consisting of Ben Clark, Matthew Crosby, Brendan Dodds, and Tom Parry. The group met at the University of Kent and started out performing in Canterbury and Wolverhampton. They later moved to London and in 2004, began performing regular shows in The Old Coffee House, in Soho, London. Pappy's Fun Club made their self-titled debut appearance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2006, as part of the Free Fringe. In February 2007, the group was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Chortle Awards. In August 2007, the team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Badults
''Badults'' is a British sitcom series created and starring the members of Pappy's, along with Emer Kenny, Jack Docherty and Katherine Ryan in the lead roles. Written collectively by Pappy's, the first series piloted on 23 July 2013 on BBC Three. A second and final series was commissioned by the BBC on 23 August 2013 for broadcast in summer 2014. Plot A series following the lives of some flatmates, Matthew, Ben, Tom and Rachel, who do their best to fulfill their age old ambition of living together as adults albeit badly and earning the label 'Badults' hence. Clark, Crosby and Parry play characters who share a flat but are "bad at being adults". Production The series was developed under the working title ''The Secret Dude Society''. Andrew Collins was Script Editor. Filming Series 1 was filmed at BBC Scotland in Glasgow in early 2013 where it was produced by The Comedy Unit. Series 2 began shooting in early 2014. Cast * Matthew Crosby as Matthew * Ben Clark as Ben * Tom Parr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Badults (TV Series)
''Badults'' is a British sitcom series created and starring the members of Pappy's, along with Emer Kenny, Jack Docherty and Katherine Ryan in the lead roles. Written collectively by Pappy's, the first series piloted on 23 July 2013 on BBC Three. A second and final series was commissioned by the BBC on 23 August 2013 for broadcast in summer 2014. Plot A series following the lives of some flatmates, Matthew, Ben, Tom and Rachel, who do their best to fulfill their age old ambition of living together as adults albeit badly and earning the label 'Badults' hence. Clark, Crosby and Parry play characters who share a flat but are "bad at being adults". Production The series was developed under the working title ''The Secret Dude Society''. Andrew Collins was Script Editor. Filming Series 1 was filmed at BBC Scotland in Glasgow in early 2013 where it was produced by The Comedy Unit. Series 2 began shooting in early 2014. Cast * Matthew Crosby as Matthew * Ben Clark as Ben * Tom Parr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Crosby
Matthew Crosby (born 12 February 1980) is an English comedian and writer. Early life Matthew Crosby was born in Bromley. He attended St Olave's Grammar School., and went on to study English and American Literature with Film Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he met Tom Parry and Brendan Dodds. Matthew Crosby is little know for being the shortest man on radio x, half an inch higher than a borrower Biography Crosby was originally a teacher but left the profession to try comedy in 2004. He has since performed stand-up and sketch comedy all over the world, and was a semi-finalist for the BBC New Act 2005. He comperes at several comedy venues including the Horsebridge Comedy Club in Whitstable. Crosby is a founding member of sketch team Pappy's, formerly known as Pappy's Fun Club. In August 2006 Crosby performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in two shows: the Comedy Bucket, a stand-up showcase, and Pappy's Fun Club. In August 2007 the Edinburgh run of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Parry (comedian)
Tom Parry is an English comedian, playwright and actor. Career Stand-up Parry performed his debut solo show ‘Yellow T-shirt’ at the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. It was nominated as the Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards and earned Parry a BBC radio show. It was also nominated for Best Show at the 2016 Chortle Awards. He has appeared on the ‘ Quickly Kevin, Will He Score?’ podcast with Josh Widdicombe. At the 2014 Edinburgh Festival he produced a show for ‘Beasts’ at the Pleasance Courtyard and repeated this in 2015. He was a writer on ITV's sitcom The Job Lot and several series of Great Movie Mistakes on BBC 3. Pappy’s He is a member of the sketch troupe Pappy's producing podcasts, television and stage shows, some of which have been nominated for awards at the Edinburgh Festival. Film Parry’s debut screenplay Your Christmas or Mine? was filmed at Pinewood Studios starring Asa Butterfield, Cora Kirk, Angela Griffin and Daniel Mays and available on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chortle Awards
The Chortle Awards were set up in 2002 by the comedy website Chortle to honour the best of established stand-up comics currently working in the UK. A panel of reviewers draw up a shortlist, which is presented for public vote at the Chortle website. 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 In 2012, Charlie Brooker won the TV award for ''Black Mirror'' and his work on ''10 O'Clock Live'', while Stewart Lee was awarded "best standup DVD" for the second series of ''Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle''. Lee's former comic partner Richard Herring won the internet award. Dylan Moran won "best tour", Tim Key was awarded "best show", and Simon Munnery received the award for innovation. Prior to the awards, Chortle responded to accusations of sexism (of 54 nominees, only two were women). Editor Steve Bennett described the controversy as "a storm we never saw coming." 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 The winners were announced in March 2018, and marked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emer Kenny
Emer Gwynne Morganna Kenny (born 10 October 1989) is a British actress and screenwriter. Career Kenny made her professional debut in the 2007 BBC television drama ''Coming Down the Mountain'', and, in 2009, she made her film debut in Phil Claydon's ''Lesbian Vampire Killers''. She played the role of Kate in an improvisational BBC production called ''Freefall'' written and directed by Dominic Savage, which was screened in 2009. In January 2010, Kenny began her role in the ''EastEnders'' spin-off ''EastEnders: E20'' as Zsa Zsa Carter as well as in ''EastEnders'' itself. Kenny was cast in the role of Zsa Zsa after writing the second episode of ''EastEnders: E20''. A second series of ''EastEnders: E20'' was announced in April 2010, with Kenny returning as a writer, although it was announced the following month that Zsa Zsa would be written out of ''EastEnders'' so Kenny could pursue further acting roles. She made her last appearance on 30 September 2010. In 2010, Kenny was painted b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cariad Lloyd
Katie Cariad Lloyd (born 21 August 1982) is a British comedian, actress, writer, and podcaster who has been performing since 2007. She is a member of the improvisational comedy group Austentatious, the host and creator of '' Griefcast'', and an improv teacher. Lloyd was nominated in 2011 for Best Newcomer at the Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Awards for her debut solo show, ''Lady Cariad's Characters''. She also won the Edtwinge award for most positively tweeted-about show during the Fringe. ''Griefcast'' has won several awards, including best Entertainment Podcast and Podcast of the Year at the British Podcast Awards and an ARIA Award for Best Podcast. Early life Lloyd was born in London. She is of Welsh descent on her father’s side. Her father died of pancreatic cancer when she was 15. She studied English literature at the University of Sussex, where she first met her friend and fellow comedian Sara Pascoe. Lloyd worked with Pascoe as a tour guide on open-top buses in Londo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Comedy Guide
British Comedy Guide or BCG (formerly the British Sitcom Guide or BSG) is a British website covering all forms of British comedy, across all media. At the time of writing, BCG has published guides to more than 7,000 individual British comedies - primarily TV and radio situation comedy, sketch shows, comedy dramas, satire, variety and panel games. Other notable features on BCG include a news section, a message board, interviews with comedians and actors, a series of comment and opinion articles, a searchable merchandise database, and a section offering advice to aspiring comedy writers. The website also runs ''The Comedy.co.uk Awards'' and hosts several podcast series, some of which have won awards. Reportedly, British Comedy Guide attracts over 500,000 unique visitors a month, making it Britain's most-visited comedy-related reference website. Background The website was founded in August 2003 as the ''British Sitcom Guide'' (''BSG''), a website devoted to British sitcom TV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy Lab
''Comedy Lab'' is a British television series which showcases pilots of experimental comedy shows. Series have been aired irregularly on Channel 4 and E4 since 1998. Several pilots first shown on ''Comedy Lab'' have gone on to spawn full series, most notably ''Trigger Happy TV'', ''Fonejacker'', ''That Peter Kay Thing'', ''Meet the Magoons'' and '' FM''. It also gave Jimmy Carr his first television appearance in ''Jimmy Carr's World of…Corporate Videos''. The 2001 series featured the episodes ''Knife and Wife'' (featuring Kevin Eldon), ''Orcadia'' (featuring Alice Lowe), ''Daydream Believers: Brand New Beamer'' (featuring David Mitchell and Robert Webb) and ''Jimmy Carr's World of…Corporate Videos'' featuring Jimmy Carr. The 2008 series featured the episodes ''Headwreckers'' (featuring David McSavage), ''Mr and Mrs Fandango'', ''Olivia Lee's Naughty Bits'', '' Karl Pilkington: Satisfied Fool'', '' Pappy's Fun Club'', '' School of Comedy'' and ''Slaterwood''. 2010's show ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITunes
iTunes () is a software program that acts as a media player, media library, mobile device management utility, and the client app for the iTunes Store. Developed by Apple Inc., it is used to purchase, play, download, and organize digital multimedia, on personal computers running the macOS and Windows operating systems, and can be used to rip songs from CDs, as well as play content with the use of dynamic, smart playlists. Options for sound optimizations exist, as well as ways to wirelessly share the iTunes library. Originally announced by Apple CEO Steve Jobs on January 9, 2001, iTunes' original and main focus was music, with a library offering organization and storage of Mac users' music collections. With the 2003 addition of the iTunes Store for purchasing and downloading digital music, and a version of the program for Windows, it became a ubiquitous tool for managing music and configuring other features on Apple's line of iPod media players, which extended to the iPh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edinburgh Festival Performers
Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth. Edinburgh is Scotland's second-most populous city, after Glasgow, and the seventh-most populous city in the United Kingdom. Recognised as the capital of Scotland since at least the 15th century, Edinburgh is the seat of the Scottish Government, the Scottish Parliament and the highest courts in Scotland. The city's Palace of Holyroodhouse is the official residence of the British monarchy in Scotland. The city has long been a centre of education, particularly in the fields of medicine, Scottish law, literature, philosophy, the sciences, and engineering. It is the second-largest financial centre in the United Kingdom, and the city's historical and cultural attractions have made it the UK's second-most visited touris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Docherty
John Docherty (born 1962) is a Scottish writer, actor, presenter and producer. Career He first performed at the 1980 Edinburgh Festival Fringe with the comedy sketch group The Bodgers which he formed with George Watson's College schoolfriends Moray Hunter, Gordon Kennedy and Pete Baikie. They performed each year from 1980 to 1985. ''Arfington, Arfington'' their 1984 show and ''Mr Hargreaves Did It'' their 1985 show were both shortlisted for the Perrier Comedy Award. In 1982 he dropped out of Aberdeen University where he was studying law, after he and Moray Hunter became staff writers in the BBC radio comedy department contributing to various shows including '' Radio Active'', ''In One Ear'', ''Week Ending'' and ''The News Huddlines''. He also recorded one series with The Bodgers for Radio 4 called ''In Other Words...The Bodgers''. For the second series, producer Alan Nixon teamed them with John Sparkes and Morwenna Banks for ''Bodgers, Banks and Sparkes'', forming the cast t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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