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Marek Ryan Larwood (born 2 June 1976) is an English comedian and actor. He is best known for the
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sketch show ''
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'' and for being one third of the comedy trio ''
We Are Klang ''We Are Klang'' is a British comedy sketch show, starring Greg Davies, Steve Hall and Marek Larwood, and produced for BBC Three. The programme was short-lived, only running for six episodes in 2009, between 30 July to 10 September, and focused ...
''.


Early life

Born in
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,
Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ...
, Larwood lived in
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before moving to the
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. His forename is of Polish origin, as his mother had seen a 1975 documentary about a Polish schoolboy with a heart defect, who was looking forward to an operation. The operation was unsuccessful, and Marek's mother thought to name her son after the Polish schoolboy.


Career


Stand-up comedy

Larwood won the
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competition in 2003. He is part of the comic trio
We Are Klang ''We Are Klang'' is a British comedy sketch show, starring Greg Davies, Steve Hall and Marek Larwood, and produced for BBC Three. The programme was short-lived, only running for six episodes in 2009, between 30 July to 10 September, and focused ...
, along with Steve Hall and
Greg Davies Gregory Daniel Davies ( ; born 14 May 1968) is a Welsh comedian, actor, presenter, and writer. He is best known for his roles as Greg in ''We Are Klang'', Mr Gilbert in ''The Inbetweeners'', Ken Thompson in ''Cuckoo'', the Taskmaster in '' Tas ...
. They took their show ''Klangbang'' to the 2006
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festival and were nominated for the
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s.Bunbury, Stephanie (2007)
Insults in flight as Klang mixes it
, ''
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'', 4 April 2007, retrieved 2010-11-22


Television

Larwood has appeared in the sitcom '' Extras'' and the
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sci-fi sitcom '' Hyperdrive''. He featured as a main cast member of the first series of the
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show ''
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'', but was absent from the second, meaning some of his characters were recast. He made a surprise return for the third series, but did not reclaim his original roles. In 2007, he appeared as Giacomo Casanova and Milo of Croton in CBBC's ''Ed and Oucho''. Larwood appeared in the 2008
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sketch show ''Laura, Ben & Him'', with
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and
Ben Willbond Benjamin Thomas Willbond (born 18 January 1973) is an English actor and screenwriter best known as a member of the British Horrible Histories troupe in which he appears in the TV series ''Horrible Histories'', '' Yonderland'' and ''Ghosts''. He ...
.Plunkett, John (2007)
ITV2 picks up Solon sketch show
, ''
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'', 10 October 2007, retrieved 2010-11-22 He appeared in the sitcom adaptation of ''
We Are Klang ''We Are Klang'' is a British comedy sketch show, starring Greg Davies, Steve Hall and Marek Larwood, and produced for BBC Three. The programme was short-lived, only running for six episodes in 2009, between 30 July to 10 September, and focused ...
'', the sketch show ''
Rush Hour A rush hour (American English, British English) or peak hour (Australian English) is a part of the day during which traffic congestion on roads and crowding on public transport is at its highest. Normally, this happens twice every weekday: on ...
'', and the improv game show '' Fast and Loose''. From 2012 to 2014, he was a member of the
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hidden camera comedy show ''
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''. He plays pub regular Lee in
Romesh Ranganathan Jonathan Romesh Ranganathan (born 27 March 1978), is an English actor and comedian. He is known for his deadpan and often self-deprecating comedy. Ranganathan has made numerous appearances on television comedy panel shows, and in 2016 he co-p ...
's sitcom ''
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''. Larwood appeared in ITV2's celebrity comedy show ''
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'', alongside comedian Iain Stirling and Scarlett Moffat.


Films

Larwood made a
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as an amateur magician in the 2007 film ''
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''.


Podcasts

Larwood presented a weekly podcast on classic and current films, ''
Film Fandango ''Film Fandango'' is a weekly film discussion podcast hosted by comedians David Reed and Marek Larwood. In its initial incarnation (October 2011 – January 2013), the podcast was hosted by Danielle Ward alongside David Reed and was distrib ...
,'' initially with fellow comedian
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and occasional guest host Danielle Ward, then with just Reed (when Ward left to have a baby), and then finally on his own.


Credits


Television


References

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