Alan Davies
Alan is a stand-up comedian, writer and actor best known for playing the title role in Jonathan Creek and as a permanent panellist on the TV panel show QI. In 1982 Alan Davies left Bancroft’s School in Woodford Green with 8 O-levels. He then attended Loughton College of Further Education and got 4 GCSEs and two A levels, in Theatre Studies and Media Studies. He was taught theatre skills by Piers Gladhill. He began performing stand-up comedy in 1988 at the Whitstable Labour Club, and in 1991, he was named Time Out’s Best Young Comic. He continued touring and performing in the UK and Australia, winning the Edinburgh Festival Critics Award for Comedy in 1994. In 1994 and 1995, Davies hosted Alan’s Big One for three series on Radio 1 before appearing in Channel 4’s spoof travel show One for Continue Reading »
Alexander Armstrong
Brilliant British comedian, actor and television presenter, known for being one half of double act Armstrong and Miller and as a frequent presenter of the satirical panel show Have I got News For You. Alexander Armstrong graduated in 1992, soon after he moved to London with some friends to pursue a career in acting and comedy. In 1996, he and Ben Miller performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and were nominated for the Perrier Award. Alexander Armstrong co-starred in four series’ of Armstrong and Miller from 1997 to 2001. The duo decided to take a break and split for several years to forge their own solo careers. Armstrong renewed his partnership with Miller for the award-winning The Armstrong and Miller Show in 2007. Between September and November 2010, Armstrong took The Armstrong and Miller Show on tour in the UK, completing Continue Reading »
Ben Miller
Ben is an actor, comedy writer and director. He is well-known as one half of the comedy double act Armstrong and Miller. Ben Miller is also well known for movie roles in Johnny English, The Prince and Me, and Steve Coogan‘s dark British comedy The Parole Officer. He studied natural sciences at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, where he dated the asctress Rachel Weisz. He remained at Cambridge to study for a Ph.D. in quantum physics. In 1992 he was introduced to fellow Cambridge graduate Alexander Armstrong at a comedy club called the TBA Sketch Comedy Group. Together, Miller and Alexander Armstrong went on to write and star in the Channel 4 sketch show Armstrong and Miller, and the more recent BBC television sketch show The Armstrong and Miller Show. They performed their first full-length show at the Edinburgh Fringe in Continue Reading »
Bobby Davro
English actor and comedian best known for his work as an impressionist and voice artist. Bobby Davro appeared on a variety of television shows, mostly with ITV, throughout the 80s and 90s, presenting his own Saturday night ITV shows; Bobby Davro on the Box, Bobby Davro’s TV Annual and Bobby Davro’s TV Weekly. He went on to make two more shows with ITV: Davro’s Sketch Pad and Davro in 1990. The 90s saw Davro switching channels to the BBC, appearing on television shows such as Public Enemy Number One and the talent show The Heat Is On. He also made appearances on Run the Risk, which featured on Saturday mornings kids’ show Live & Kicking. Davro returned to UK TV screens in May 1997, as host of Yorkshire Television’s Winner Takes All for 65 episodes which was produced for Challenge Continue Reading »
Chris Addison
Chris is a stand-up comedian, writer and actor from Manchester and has been performing stand-up comedy since 1995. Chris Addison‘s first solo show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe was in 1998, for which he was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Perrier Awards. He continued to bring shows to the Fringe for several years, garnering two Perrier Award nominations — for his 2004 show Civilisation and 2005’s Atomicity. From 2003 to 2005 Addison wrote a fortnightly finance column for The Guardian entitled “Funny Money”. First airing in 2004, Chris Addison co-wrote and co-starred in the political satire The Department, along with John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman. This ran for fourteen episodes over three series on BBC Radio 4, ending in 2006. In 2006, Chris Addison recorded Chris Addison’s Civilisation, again for Radio 4, based on his Edinburgh Fringe show of 2004. Addison hosted a Continue Reading »
