28 Acts in 28 Minutes
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28 Acts in 28 Minutes is a stand-up
Stand-up comedy
Stand-up comedy is a comedic art form. Usually, a comedian performs in front of a live audience, speaking directly to them. Their performances are sometimes filmed for later release via DVD, the internet, and television...

 TV comedy show aired on the UK's BBC Three
BBC Three
BBC Three is a television network from the BBC broadcasting via digital cable, terrestrial, IPTV and satellite platforms. The channel's target audience includes those in the 16-34 year old age group, and has the purpose of providing "innovative" content to younger audiences, focusing on new talent...

. It comprises 28 acts, each given a minute to perform. A 3-part series also aired on BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...

 in June 2006, chaired by John Humphrys
John Humphrys
Desmond John Humphrys , is a Welsh-born British author, journalist and presenter of radio and television, who has won many national broadcasting awards...

.

Show One

  • Jason Byrne
    Jason Byrne (comedian)
    Jason Byrne is an Irish comedian born in Ballinteer, Dublin, Ireland. In August 2008, he made his twelfth Edinburgh Fringe Festival appearance and is a regular at the Kilkenny Cat Laughs comedy festival....

  • Noel Fielding
    Noel Fielding
    Noel Fielding is a British artist, comedian and actor. He is known for his roles as Vince Noir in The Mighty Boosh, which he co-writes with comedy partner Julian Barratt, and as team captain on the music panel show Never Mind the Buzzcocks.-Stand-up comedy:Noel Fielding performed regularly as a...

  • Neil Mullarkey
    Neil Mullarkey
    Neil Mullarkey is an English actor, writer and comedian.Mullarkey studied at Robinson College, Cambridge; while he was there he was Junior Treasurer of the Cambridge Footlights in the academic year 1981 to 1982 and was president in the year ending 1983...

  • Jocelyn Jee Esien
    Jocelyn Jee Esien
    Jocelyn Jee Esien is a Black British comedian, of Nigerian origin, perhaps best known for her part in the hidden camera show 3 Non Blondes, and her own comedy sketch show, Little Miss Jocelyn.-Biography:...

  • James Rawlings
    James Rawlings
    James Rawlings is a British actor and comedy writer for stage, film, television and radio.Rawlings is a member of the comedic sketch trio The Consultants, alongside Neil Edmond and Justin Edwards. In 2002 they won the Perrier award Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival...

    , Neil Edmond
    Neil Edmond
    Neil Edmond is a British actor and comedy writer.Neil was a member of the comedic sketch trio The Consultants, alongside James Rawlings and Justin Edwards. In 2002 they won the Perrier award for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The Consultants went on to record four series for BBC...

     and Justin Edwards
    Justin Edwards
    Justin Edwards is an English actor and writer.Born in Hampshire, Justin studied at Manchester University, before training at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. He was a member of sketch trio The Consultants, alongside Neil Edmond and James Rawlings...

     of The Consultants
    The Consultants
    The Consultants are a comedy sketch team who first reached public prominence in August 2002 where they won the Perrier Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Fringe....

  • Andrew Maxwell
    Andrew Maxwell
    Andrew Maxwell is an Irish stand-up comedian. Raised in Kilbarrack, Dublin, and now resident in London, he is a father of two. He regularly appears on The Panel.-Early life:...

  • Tina C
  • Matt Blaize
  • Milton Jones
    Milton Jones
    Milton Jones is an English comedian. His style of humour is based on one-liners involving puns delivered in a deadpan and slightly neurotic style. Jones has had various shows on BBC Radio 4 and is a recurring guest panellist on Mock the Week...

  • Stickmen
  • Glenn Wool
    Glenn Wool
    Glenn Wool is a Canadian stand-up comedian now living in the United Kingdom. His material veers between sagely political and gleefully silly, discussing both the pop group Franz Ferdinand and the Pope's contribution to cryrogenics programmes during his time onstage. Wool starred in a self-titled...

  • Ben Willbond
    Ben Willbond
    Ben Willbond is an English comedian and actor with credits on television, radio and film, including from 2005-2007 Deep Trouble on BBC Radio 4 with actor and writer Jim Field Smith. He was formerly part of the comedy duo "Ben & Arn", who won "Best Newcomer" at the Perrier Award in 1999...

  • Dan Antopolski
    Dan Antopolski
    For the rowing coach and commentator, see Daniel TopolskiDan Antopolski is a British stand-up comic, actor and writer, mostly known for his surreal stand-up.- Stand-up comedy :Shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe include:...

  • Shazia Mirza
    Shazia Mirza
    Shazia Mirza is a British comedian and columnist from Birmingham, England.-Background:Shazia was born as the eldest daughter in Birmigham to Pakistani parents, Mohammed and Sarwat Mirza...

  • Pete Dobbing
  • Trevor & Simon
  • Andrew Lawrence
    Andrew Lawrence (stand-up comedian)
    Andrew Lawrence is a British stand-up comedian.Lawrence attended Tiffin School, Kingston upon Thames and the University of St Andrews.Lawrence presented his first hour-long comedy show at the 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe entitled How to Butcher your Loved Ones. It was nominated for the...

  • Paul Foot
    Paul Foot
    Paul Mackintosh Foot was a British investigative journalist, political campaigner, author, and long-time member of the Socialist Workers Party...

  • Population 3
  • Robin Ince
    Robin Ince
    Robin Ince is an English stand-up comedian, actor and writer. He is best known for presenting the BBC radio show The Infinite Monkey Cage .-Stand-up comedy:...

  • Little Howard
  • Tony Law
    Tony Law
    Tony Law is a Canadian stand-up comedian. Born 20 September 1969 in Lacombe, Alberta, he is now based in London, UK.He is known for his highly surreal material & delivery, and 1950's Americana style of dress - favouring boots with turned up jeans & an impressive quiff.A lot of Tony's material...

  • Oram & Meeten
  • Merriman Weir
  • Abigail Williams
    Abigail Williams
    Abigail Williams was one of the initial accusers in the Salem witch trials of 1692, which led to the arrest and imprisonment of over 150 innocent people.-Salem Witch trials:...

  • Men In Coats
  • Mike Wilmot
    Mike Wilmot
    Mike Wilmot is a Canadian stand-up comedian. In 2005 he won two Canadian Comedy Awards for best male stand-up and best actor for his work in It's All Gone Pete Tong....

  • Swizzleshaker

  • Show Two

    • Phil Nichol
      Phil Nichol
      Phil Nichol is a Canadian comedian, singer-songwriter, and actor.-Comedy:Nichol was born in Scotland to a Scottish mother, but raised in Canada. He first found fame as a member of the musical comedy trio Corky and the Juice Pigs, known for the song " Eskimo"...

    • Stephen K Amos
    • Nina Conti
      Nina Conti
      Nina Conti is a British actress, comedian and ventriloquist. Her on-stage puppet sidekick is a depressed monkey named Monk.- Early life :...

    • John Oliver
      John Oliver (comedian)
      John Oliver is a British stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. He is best known for his work on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, for which he won an Emmy in 2009. He also plays a recurring character, Professor Ian Duncan, on the television series Community...

    • Stephen Evans, Renton Skinner
      Renton Skinner
      Daniel "Dan" Renton Skinner is a British actor and comedy writer, working in stage, film and television. Renton is a member of the popular British five-man sketch troupe Dutch Elm Conservatoire...

      , Jim Field Smith
      Jim Field Smith
      Jim Field Smith is a British film director, comedy writer, and actor.-Background:Field Smith attended Wellington College, Berkshire, England from 1992 to 1997, and then went on to the University of Birmingham, from where he graduated in 2001...

      , Jordan Long, and Rufus Jones
      Rufus Jones (actor)
      Rufus Jones is an English actor, comedian and writer.Rufus is a member of the five-man British comedy sketch group the Dutch Elm Conservatoire. The group were nominated for the prestigious Perrier award at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe....

       of Dutch Elm Conservatoire
      Dutch Elm Conservatoire
      The Dutch Elm Conservatoire is a British sketch comedy group, made up of five writers and actors: Stephen Evans, Jim Field Smith, Rufus Jones, Dan Renton Skinner and Jordan Long.They performed on the comedy circuit in London, Edinburgh and on tour...

    • John Bishop
      John Bishop (comedian)
      John Joseph Bishop is an award-winning comedian.His television debut came on The Panel. As an actor, he has appeared in the E4 teen drama Skins as Mr Fitch, father of twins, Katie and Emily and in the Ken Loach film Route Irish...

    • Gary Le Strange
      Gary Le Strange
      Gary Le Strange is a character created by comedian Waen Shepherd. Le Strange is played as an eccentric English cult-rock composer, songwriter and performer, who believes his surreal and abstract performances to be groundbreaking....

    • Des Clarke
    • Simon Farnaby
      Simon Farnaby
      Simon Alexander Farnaby is an English comedy actor and writer in television, theatre and film.-Early life:Born in Wath-upon-Dearne, South Yorkshire, Farnaby trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, National Youth Theatre, and Trinity College, Dublin...

    • The Bearded Ladies
      Bearded Ladies (radio show)
      Bearded Ladies is a radio programme that was originally aired on BBC Radio 4 between 2003 and 2007. There are currently 22 half-hour episodes; although the last 6, aired in 2007, do have a loose narrative structure holding the individual sketches together, it is essentially a sketch-driven comedy...

  • Simon Munnery
    Simon Munnery
    Simon Munnery, also known by his stagenames of Alan Parker: Urban Warrior and The League Against Tedium, is an English comedy writer and experimental standup comedian...

  • Rob Deering
    Rob Deering
    Rob Deering is an English stand-up comedian, guitarist and writer.Deering was the host and writer of three series of Out to Lunch on BBC Radio 2...

  • Mark Watson
    Mark Watson (comedian)
    Mark Andrew Watson is an English stand-up comedian and novelist.-Early life:Watson was born in Bristol to Welsh parents and attended Henleaze Junior school and then Bristol Grammar School, where he won the prize of 'Gabbler of the year', before going to Queens' College, Cambridge, where he studied...

  • Naomi Grigg
  • Dara Ó Briain
    Dara Ó Briain
    Dara Ó Briain is an Irish stand-up comedian and television presenter, noted for hosting topical panel shows such as The Panel and Mock the Week....

  • Kevin Eldon
  • Topping & Butch
  • Ava Vidal
    Ava Vidal
    Ava Vidal is a British comedian currently living in London. She became more widely known after taking part in E4's "Kings of Comedy". Her career in comedy began on the BBC's "Urban Sketch Show". She has two children, having had her first aged 18...

  • Hopkins & Tunley
  • Bad Play
  • Count Arthur Strong
  • Brendon Burns
  • Castratos
  • Lizzie Roper
  • Carey Marx
    Carey Marx
    Carey Marx is a British stand up comedian. He has been performing regularly all over the UK comedy circuit for several years, including the Komedia, The Comedy Store and Jongleurs. He has had numerous television appearances including Comedy Cuts, BBC Breakfast and Loose Women...

  • Kirk & Messingham
  • Craig Campbell
    Craig Campbell
    Craig Campbell is a Canadian stand-up comedian, who now lives in Devon, England.He was the host of Ed's Late Night and From Wimps to Warriors...

  • Mundo Jazz

  • 21 June 2006

    • Richie Webb and Vicki Pepperdine with The One-Minute Musical
    • Jason Manford
      Jason Manford
      Jason John Manford is an English comedian, television presenter and actor.- Early life :Manford was born to an Irish family in Salford, Greater Manchester, a son of Sharon , who is a Catholic and Ian Manford. He grew up in poverty in a terraced house in Manchester...

    • Steve Punt
      Steve Punt
      Stephen Punt is a British writer, comedian and actor, best known for his long-time comedy partnership with Hugh Dennis. Punt lives in Wimbledon with his girlfriend and two children.-Life and career:...

       and Hugh Dennis
      Hugh Dennis
      Peter Hugh Dennis is an English actor, comedian, writer, impressionist and voice-over artist, best known for his work with comedy partner Steve Punt. He is also known for his position as a permanent panelist on the TV comedy show Mock The Week...

    • Josie Long
      Josie Long
      Josie Long is an English comedian.-Background:Long spent her early life in Orpington, South East London, where she attended Newstead Wood School for Girls in Swift House. She also attended GIFT Ltd. summer schools. She began performing stand-up comedy at 14, winning the BBC New Comedy Awards at...

    • Ed Byrne
      Ed Byrne
      Ed Byrne is a Perrier Award-nominated, Irish stand-up comedian, voice over artist and actor. He has presented television shows Uncut! Best Unseen Ads and Just for Laughs, and is a regular guest on various television panel games...

    • Matt Holt
      Matt Holt
      Matt Holt is the former vocalist of Nothingface, and Kingdom of Snakes. His vocals include a wide range of very guttural and distinctive growls to ethereal melodies and even the occasional rap-style vocals on early songs like "Lipsdick" and "Breathe Out"...

    • Nick Mohammed
    • Phil Nichol
      Phil Nichol
      Phil Nichol is a Canadian comedian, singer-songwriter, and actor.-Comedy:Nichol was born in Scotland to a Scottish mother, but raised in Canada. He first found fame as a member of the musical comedy trio Corky and the Juice Pigs, known for the song " Eskimo"...

    • Matt Kirshen
      Matt Kirshen
      Matt Kirshen is a British comedian. Kirshen has performed around the world, including Singapore, Dubai, Holland, Germany, and France. In 2007, he enjoyed a successful run in NBC's Last Comic Standing...

    • Lemn Sissay
      Lemn Sissay
      Lemn Sissay MBE is an award-winning British author and broadcaster of Ethiopian and Eritrean parents.He is known for performances of his poetry and also with jazz fusion groups. He is a playwright, and has worked on radio and television...

  • Tim Key
    Tim Key
    Tim Key is an English actor, comedy writer, and performance poet. In 2009, he was the winner of the Edinburgh Comedy Award and was also nominated for the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality.-Edinburgh Fringe:...

    , Tom Basden
    Tom Basden
    Tom Basden is a British actor and comedy writer, and a member of the British four man sketch group Cowards. He has written and performed extensively for comedy shows on the BBC and Channel 4 and often collaborates in two-man shows with fellow Cowards member Tim Key.-Education:Basden was educated...

    , Lloyd Woolf
    Lloyd Woolf
    Lloyd Woolf is a British comedian and member of the four man group Cowards, which also includes Tim Key, Tom Basden and Stefan Golaszewski.Woolf was born in Swansea...

    , Stefan Golazewski of The Cowards, joined by Alex Horne
    Alex Horne
    Alex Horne is a British comedian.He was educated at Lancing College and the University of Cambridge, where he was a member of Footlights.-Career:...

  • Jason John Whitehead
    Jason John Whitehead
    Jason John Whitehead is a Canadian born stand-up comedian, who has been based in the UK for a decade. He has performed seven solo shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.-Stand-up:In 2000 Whitehead was the winner of the BBC New Comedy Award...

  • Howard Read
    Howard Read
    Howard Oliver Drinkwater Read is a British comedian, animator and aspiring song writer best known for his work with his animated sidekick, Little Howard. His other creations include an angry manager with a conversational style and the worldview of Bernard Manning, Roger T Pigeon, and H:BOT 2000, a...

  • Janey Godley
    Janey Godley
    Janey Godley is a British stand-up comedian and writer. Her autobiography, Handstands in the Dark, was a UK Top Ten bestseller and she was a 2006 Scotswoman of The Year finalist...

  • Count Arthur Strong
  • Al Pitcher
  • Martin White
  • Ed Aczel
  • Markus Birdman
  • Tom Price
    Tom Price (actor)
    Tom Price is a British actor, voice over artist and stand up comedian. He is married to TV producer Beth Morrey, who is most noted for being the creator of hit Channel 4 quiz format Wogan's Perfect Recall.-TV and Film Career:...

  • John Bishop
    John Bishop (comedian)
    John Joseph Bishop is an award-winning comedian.His television debut came on The Panel. As an actor, he has appeared in the E4 teen drama Skins as Mr Fitch, father of twins, Katie and Emily and in the Ken Loach film Route Irish...

  • Neil Edmond
    Neil Edmond
    Neil Edmond is a British actor and comedy writer.Neil was a member of the comedic sketch trio The Consultants, alongside James Rawlings and Justin Edwards. In 2002 they won the Perrier award for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The Consultants went on to record four series for BBC...

    , Justin Edwards
    Justin Edwards
    Justin Edwards is an English actor and writer.Born in Hampshire, Justin studied at Manchester University, before training at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. He was a member of sketch trio The Consultants, alongside Neil Edmond and James Rawlings...

    , and James Rawlings
    James Rawlings
    James Rawlings is a British actor and comedy writer for stage, film, television and radio.Rawlings is a member of the comedic sketch trio The Consultants, alongside Neil Edmond and Justin Edwards. In 2002 they won the Perrier award Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival...

     of The Consultants
    The Consultants
    The Consultants are a comedy sketch team who first reached public prominence in August 2002 where they won the Perrier Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Fringe....

  • Sue Vale
  • Miles Jupp
    Miles Jupp
    Miles Jupp is a British actor and comedian, probably best known as Archie in the children's television series Balamory....

  • Stefano Paolini
  • Rhod Gilbert
    Rhod Gilbert
    Rhodri "Rhod" Gilbert, is a Welsh comedian who was nominated in 2005 for the Perrier Best Newcomer Award. In 2008, he was nominated for the main if.comedy ....

  • Seymour Mace
  • Nicholas Parsons
    Nicholas Parsons
    Nicholas Parsons OBE is a British actor and radio and television presenter.-Early life:...


  • 28 June 2006

    • Justin Edwards
      The Consultants
      The Consultants are a comedy sketch team who first reached public prominence in August 2002 where they won the Perrier Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Fringe....

    • Alfie Joey
      Alfie Joey
      Alfie Joey is a British comedian and radio presenter. He currently co-presents the BBC Newcastle breakfast show.He has featured in numerous radio and television shows, such as Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music and Ideal...

    • Dan Mersh, Jeremy Limb, Paul Litchfield of The Trap
    • Jo Enright
      Jo Enright
      Jo Enright is an English stand-up comedian and actress who has appeared in a number of television and radio comedy programmes.-Biography:...

    • Dave Johns
    • Jim Jeffries
      Jim Jeffries (comedian)
      Geoffery James Nugent, aka Jim Jeffries is an Australian stand-up comedian .-Early life:...

    • Joanna Neary
    • Danny Robins (aka DJ Danny)
    • Scott Capurro
      Scott Capurro
      -Television appearances:-Stage appearances:-Personal life:In October 2006 Capurro purchased a flat in Bethnal Green and considers himself a London resident.-External links:* * *...

    • Roger McGough
      Roger McGough
      Roger Joseph McGough CBE is a well-known English performance poet. He presents the BBC Radio 4 programme Poetry Please and records voice-overs for commercials, as well as performing his own poetry regularly...

  • John Warburton and Toby Hadoke
    Toby Hadoke
    Toby Hadoke is an English actor, writer and stand-up comedian. He is particularly well known for his work on the Manchester comedy circuit, where he performs regularly. He runs the multi award winning XS Malarkey comedy club, and is involved with many of the more experimental and financially...

     of The Unbroadcastable Radio Show
    The Unbroadcastable Radio Show
    The Unbroadcastable Radio Show was a monthly live comedy show performed at the Comedy Store, Manchester. The show took the format of the recording of a radio show, featuring topical comedy written up to the day of performance....

    .
  • Martin Bigpig
  • Gary Le Strange
    Gary Le Strange
    Gary Le Strange is a character created by comedian Waen Shepherd. Le Strange is played as an eccentric English cult-rock composer, songwriter and performer, who believes his surreal and abstract performances to be groundbreaking....

  • Debra-Jane Appleby
  • James Bachman
    James Bachman
    James Bachman is an English comedian, actor and writer.He has written for many U.K. radio and television programmes, including That Mitchell and Webb Look , That Mitchell and Webb Sound , Popetown , and Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway...

     (aka Papa Christmas)
  • Steve Hughes
    Steve Hughes
    Steve Hughes is an Australian musician and stand-up comedian.-Music career:In the early 1980s he formed the Sydney thrash metal band Slaughter Lord, who recorded some demos before disbanding. Hughes then joined Mortal Sin in 1989 and stayed with them until 1991...

  • Dan Antopolski
    Dan Antopolski
    For the rowing coach and commentator, see Daniel TopolskiDan Antopolski is a British stand-up comic, actor and writer, mostly known for his surreal stand-up.- Stand-up comedy :Shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe include:...

  • Sarah Millican
    Sarah Millican
    Sarah Millican is an English stand-up comedian. Millican won the if.comedy award for Best Newcomer at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.-Career:...

  • Patrick Monahan
    Patrick Monahan (comedian)
    Patrick Monahan is an Irish-Iranian stand-up comedian born to an Irish father and an Iranian mother. He has performed at seven Edinburgh Festival Fringes, including five solo shows, and appeared multiple times on The Paul O'Grady Show...

  • Michael Redmond
    Michael Redmond (Comedian)
    Michael Redmond is an Irish stand-up comedian from Blackrock, Dublin, known for playing Father Stone in the Father Ted episode "Entertaining Father Stone"...

  • Alun Cochrane
    Alun Cochrane
    Alun "The Cockerel" Cochrane is a Scottish stand-up comedian. He was born in Glasgow and raised in Mirfield, West Yorkshire.-Stand-up comedy:...

  • Greg Davies
    Greg Davies
    Greg Davies is a British stand-up comedian, actor, and former teacher, best known for his roles as Greg in We Are Klang and Mr. Gilbert in The Inbetweeners. He has performed on the BBC's Live at the Apollo series....

     (playing Michelle), Steve Hall
    Steve Hall (Comedian)
    Steve Hall is a stand-up comedian.Hall was a finalist of the 2002 Daily Telegraph Open Mic Award and a runner-up of the 2003 BBC New Comedy Awards....

     (Derek Upon-Tweed) and Marek Larwood
    Marek Larwood
    Marek Larwood is an English comedian and actor in television, radio and theatre. He is best known for the BBC Three sitcom/sketch show, Rush Hour and for being one third of the comedy trio We Are Klang....

     (Jacques) of We Are Klang
    We Are Klang
    We Are Klang is a three-piece sit-com group consisting of comedians Greg Davies, Steve Hall and Marek Larwood. Klang are noted for their anarchic and frequently rude comedy....

    .
  • Jayne Tunnicliffe
    Jayne Tunnicliffe
    Jayne Bickerton is an English actress.She played recurring character Yana Lumb in Coronation Street between 2005 and 2007...

  • Glenn Wool
    Glenn Wool
    Glenn Wool is a Canadian stand-up comedian now living in the United Kingdom. His material veers between sagely political and gleefully silly, discussing both the pop group Franz Ferdinand and the Pope's contribution to cryrogenics programmes during his time onstage. Wool starred in a self-titled...

  • Kevin Day
    Kevin Day
    Kevin Day is a British stand up comedian, comedy writer and sports presenter, born in London.He came to prominence in the British alternative comedy stand up scene of the late eighties and early nineties, playing clubs like The Comedy Store...

  • Adam Bloom
    Adam Bloom
    Adam Bloom is a British comedian. He has played the Edinburgh festival for many years, once winning a Punters Award. He appeared at the Melbourne comedy festival in 1999 and 2000, winning a Stella Artois award for the former appearance....

  • Richard Herring
    Richard Herring
    Richard Keith Herring is a British comedian and writer, whose early work includes his involvement in the double-act, Lee and Herring...

  • Garry Morris, Martin Pemberton, Steve Royle and Andrew Willson of Slaughterhouse Live

  • 5 July 2006

    • Kit and The Widow
      Kit and The Widow
      Kit and The Widow are a double act, performing humorous songs in the vein of Tom Lehrer or Flanders and Swann; they also cite Anna Russell as an influence. They are Kit Hesketh-Harvey and Richard Sisson . They have performed at the Edinburgh Fringe and in West End theatres, and accept private...

    • Frankie Boyle
      Frankie Boyle
      Francis Martin Patrick "Frankie" Boyle is a British comedian and writer, well known for his pessimistic, often controversial sense of humour...

    • The Hollow Men
      The Hollow Men
      The Hollow Men is a major poem by T. S. Eliot. Its themes are, like many of Eliot's poems, overlapping and fragmentary, but it is recognised to be concerned most with post-World War I Europe under the Treaty of Versailles , the difficulty of hope and religious conversion, and, as some critics...

    • Lucy Porter
      Lucy Porter
      Lucy Donna Porter is an English actress, writer and comedienne.She has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Brighton Festival and many clubs around Britain. She has also a regular voice on BBC Radio 4 in various panel shows, including Quote.....

    • Rob Rouse
      Rob Rouse
      Rob Rouse is an English comedian known for his hyperactive brand of humour.-Overview:Before becoming a comedian, Rouse was a geography teacher...

    • Toby Foster
      Toby Foster
      Toby Foster British comedian, actor, radio presenter, promoter and festival producer.He went to the Barnburgh Junior School, followed by Lacewood Primary School, Dearneside Comprehensive and Wath Comprehensive in Rotherham...

    • Mrs Barbara Nice
    • Rob Deering
      Rob Deering
      Rob Deering is an English stand-up comedian, guitarist and writer.Deering was the host and writer of three series of Out to Lunch on BBC Radio 2...

    • Neil Edmond
      Neil Edmond
      Neil Edmond is a British actor and comedy writer.Neil was a member of the comedic sketch trio The Consultants, alongside James Rawlings and Justin Edwards. In 2002 they won the Perrier award for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The Consultants went on to record four series for BBC...

    • Pavel
  • Anna Crilly
    Anna Crilly
    Anna Crilly is an English actress and comedian. Secondary school: Kent College, Pembury. Crilly attended Middlesex University where she studied performing arts...

     & Katy Wix
    Katy Wix
    Katy Wix is a Welsh actress who has appeared in Not Going Out, Comic Relief Special, Rush Hour, Miranda and Torchwood.She also has numerous recurring roles in Horrible Histories...

     of Penny Spubb's Party
  • Mick Ferry
  • Pete Gold
  • Susan Murray
    Susan Murray
    Susan Murray BJ is now a strategist at the International Development Research Centre. She was also a political communications director and formerly a Canadian broadcast journalist. She graduated with a Bachelor of Journalism degree from Carleton University. Her home community is Ottawa,...

  • Charlie Chuck
    Charlie Chuck
    Charlie Chuck is the stage name of British comedian David Kear.-Biography:Kear began his career as a drummer with various bands in the late-1970s and early-1980s, including a stint with the Small Faces and the Amazing Bavarian Stompers with whom he performed on an edition of the children's TV...

  • Jarred Christmas
    Jarred Christmas
    Jarred Christmas is a comedian from New Zealand who makes his living in the United Kingdom. He does much work with the BBC, and won the Chortle Comedy Award for Best Compere. He is also known for being in Pot Noodle adverts....

  • Marcus Cummings
  • Tom Allen
    Tom Allen
    Thomas Hodge "Tom" Allen is a former member of the United States House of Representatives representing , and the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in 2008 against Republican incumbent Senator Susan Collins. Allen lost to Collins .Allen was first elected in 1996, defeating Republican...

  • Justin Moorhouse
  • Wil Hodgson
    Wil Hodgson
    Wil Hodgson is an English comedian. He has lived in Chippenham his whole life and began performing comedy in 2003. Prior to this he had worked part time as a lecturer at Wiltshire College and had a stint training to be a wrestler during which he participated in 30 man "Battle Royals".Hodgson is...

  • Stephen Carlin
    Stephen Carlin
    Stephen Carlin is a Scottish-born stand-up comedian, now living in London. Carlin is popular on the UK comedy scene for his intricate knowledge of international snooker and accomplished writing and performance. He was named by Stewart Lee as one of the 'Ten Best Comedians In The World Ever'...

  • Oram & Meeten
  • Isy Suttie
    Isy Suttie
    Isobel "Isy" Suttie is an English stand up comedian, actress, writer, and musician. She is best known for playing the role of Dobby in the British sitcom Peep Show.-Career:...

  • Alex Horne
    Alex Horne
    Alex Horne is a British comedian.He was educated at Lancing College and the University of Cambridge, where he was a member of Footlights.-Career:...

  • Phil Kay
    Phil Kay
    Phil Kay is a Scottish stand-up comedian.-Early career:Kay became known to the public when he won the newcomer's competition, 'So You Think You're Funny', at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1989. He then went on to be nominated for the prestigious Perrier Award in 1993. He also won the award for...

  • Nick Revell
    Nick Revell
    Nick Revell is a British stand-up comedian and writer for radio and television. Born John Revell, he studied at Lincoln College, Oxford, and subsequently taught English at Westminster School....

  • John Hegley
    John Hegley
    John Richard Hegley is an English performance poet, comedian, musician and songwriter.-Early life:He was born in the Newington Green area of Islington, London, England, into a Roman Catholic household. He was brought up in Luton and Bristol...

  • Marcus Brigstocke
    Marcus Brigstocke
    Marcus Alexander Brigstocke is an English comedian, actor and satirist who has worked extensively in stand-up comedy, television, radio and in 2010-2011 musical theatre. He is particularly associated with the 6.30pm comedy slot on BBC Radio 4, having frequently appeared on several of its shows...

     and Danny Robins of The Museum of Everything
    The Museum of Everything
    The Museum of Everything is a BBC Radio 4 comedy sketch show, written and performed by Marcus Brigstocke, Danny Robins and Dan Tetsell with Lucy Montgomery. The show generally occupies the 18:30 comedy slot on BBC Radio 4, with repeats several times a year on BBC Radio 4 Extra...


  • 25 August 2006 (Edinburgh Festival
    Edinburgh Festival
    The Edinburgh Festival is a collective term for many arts and cultural festivals that take place in Edinburgh, Scotland each summer, mostly in August...

     Special)

    • Grace Clarke (piper)
    • David O'Doherty
      David O'Doherty
      David Nicholas O'Doherty is a Perrier Award winning Irish stand-up comedian, author, musician, actor and playwright. His stand-up has won two awards at the Edinburgh Fringe, Best Newcomer first of all and the if.comedy award in 2008 for his show Let's Comedy. He has been nominated twice more for...

    • Alan Parker
      Alan Parker
      Sir Alan William Parker, CBE is an English film director, producer, writer and actor. He has been active in both the British cinema and American cinema and was a founding member of the Directors Guild of Great Britain.-Life and career:...

    • Jim Owen
    • Laurence Howarth
      Laurence Howarth
      Laurence Howarth is an English comic actor and writer. He has appeared in one episode each of the TV series After You've Gone , Hyperdrive , Blessed , The Robinsons , My Hero and Dark Ages...

       & Gus Brown
      Gus Brown
      Gus Brown is an English actor and comedian.He is half of the double act Laurence & Gus, alongside fellow comedian and writer Laurence Howarth...

    • Tim Minchin
      Tim Minchin
      Timothy David "Tim" Minchin is a British-Australian comedian, actor, and musician.Tim Minchin is best known for his musical comedy, which has featured in six CDs, three DVDs and a number of live comedy shows which he has performed internationally. He has also appeared on television in Australia,...

    • Kevin McAleer
    • Andrew Lawrence
      Andrew Lawrence (stand-up comedian)
      Andrew Lawrence is a British stand-up comedian.Lawrence attended Tiffin School, Kingston upon Thames and the University of St Andrews.Lawrence presented his first hour-long comedy show at the 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe entitled How to Butcher your Loved Ones. It was nominated for the...

    • Colin and Fergus
    • Peter Buckley Hill
  • Fred MacAulay
  • Rhys Darby
    Rhys Darby
    Rhys Montague Darby is an actor and stand-up comedian from New Zealand, known for his energetic physical comedy routines, telling stories accompanied with mime and sound effects of things such as machinery and animals...

  • Maria Bamford
    Maria Bamford
    Maria Bamford is an American stand-up comedian and voice actor. She is best known for her portrayal of her dysfunctional family and self-deprecating comedy involving jokes about depression. Her comedy style draws upon surrealism and incorporates voice impressions that good-naturedly mock various...

  • Three Mo' Tenors
  • Henrik Elmer
  • Brendon Burns
  • God's Pottery
  • Paul Provenza
    Paul Provenza
    Paul Provenza is an actor, comedian and filmmaker, a self-professed skeptic currently based in Los Angeles.-Early years:...

  • Bad Play
  • Luke Roberts
    Luke Roberts
    Luke Roberts is an Australian racing cyclist specialising in both track cycling and road bicycle racing, on for road racing....

  • (Lorna) Watson and (Ingrid) Oliver
  • Nick Doody
    Nick Doody
    Nick Doody is a British stand-up comedian. He features frequently as a guest on radio broadcasts such as Political Animal and vox-pop television shows, although he is known primarily as a live stand-up comic....

  • Jason Wood
    Jason Wood (comedian)
    Jason Robert Wood was a British comedian. He was a regular performer at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, he was best known for his comic musical impersonations of performers including Cher and Morrissey...

  • Tim Key
    Tim Key
    Tim Key is an English actor, comedy writer, and performance poet. In 2009, he was the winner of the Edinburgh Comedy Award and was also nominated for the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality.-Edinburgh Fringe:...

  • Robin Ince
    Robin Ince
    Robin Ince is an English stand-up comedian, actor and writer. He is best known for presenting the BBC radio show The Infinite Monkey Cage .-Stand-up comedy:...

     (and Martin White)
  • Jason Byrne
    Jason Byrne (comedian)
    Jason Byrne is an Irish comedian born in Ballinteer, Dublin, Ireland. In August 2008, he made his twelfth Edinburgh Fringe Festival appearance and is a regular at the Kilkenny Cat Laughs comedy festival....

  • The Kransky Sisters
    The Kransky Sisters
    The Kransky Sisters are an Australian musical comedy trio created, written and performed by Annie Lee and Christine Johnston in collaboration with Michele Watt and Carolyn Johns ....

  • Adam Hills
  • Barry Cryer
    Barry Cryer
    Barry Charles Cryer OBE is a British writer and comedian. Cryer has written for many noted performers, including Dave Allen, Stanley Baxter, Jack Benny, Rory Bremner, George Burns, Jasper Carrott, Tommy Cooper, Les Dawson, Dick Emery, Kenny Everett, Bruce Forsyth, David Frost, Bob Hope, Frankie...

     and Ronnie Golden
    Ronnie Golden
    Ronnie Golden, born Tony De Meur, is a British singer, guitarist and comedian. He was the founder of the band The Fabulous Poodles. After the group broke up he worked as a stand up comedian as a member of The Comic Strip. From the early 1980s he made many appearances at The Comedy Store and on the...


  • Series 2 schedule - List of acts (BBC Radio 4)

    Episode 1: Thurs 20th Dec 2007, 6.30pm

    • Jeremy Limb
    • Des Clarke
    • Penny Broadhurst
      Penny Broadhurst
      Penny Broadhurst , was a British pop singer, songwriter, writer and former spoken word artist from the north of England. She listed Kate Bush, Doctor Who, Prefab Sprout, Lloyd Cole, Belle & Sebastian, Kirsty MacColl and The Smiths among her many influences...

    • Arnab Chanda
    • John Sessions
      John Sessions
      John Gibb Marshall , better known by the stage name John Sessions, is a Scottish actor and comedian. He is known for comedy improvisation in television shows such as Whose Line Is It Anyway?; as a panellist on QI; and as a character actor in numerous films, both in the UK and in Hollywood.-Early...

    • Christina Martin
      Christina Martin
      Christina Martin is a British comedian, actor and writer.She came third in the 2006 Funny Women Awards. She was a feature writer for Viz Comic between 2006 and 2009 and wrote for New Humanist magazine between 2007 and 2009...

    • Gavin Osborn
    • Aaron Counter
    • Goldsmith & Hutchinson
    • James Kettle
  • Paula Wilcox
    Paula Wilcox
    Paula Wilcox is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Chrissy in the British comedy Man About the House .-Early sitcom fame:...

  • James Branch
  • Pegabovine
    Pegabovine
    Pegabovine is a comedy theatre company based in London and Exeter, UK, which performs in London and at the Edinburgh Fringe. The company is built around a core of four writer-performers: poet and winner of an Eric Gregory Award Luke Kennard, Jenny Sutton, Matthew Henry Johnson, and Tom ...

  • Dave Cohen
  • Jarlath Regan
  • Dutch Elm Conservatoire
    Dutch Elm Conservatoire
    The Dutch Elm Conservatoire is a British sketch comedy group, made up of five writers and actors: Stephen Evans, Jim Field Smith, Rufus Jones, Dan Renton Skinner and Jordan Long.They performed on the comedy circuit in London, Edinburgh and on tour...

  • Jeff Innocent
  • Katherine Jakeways
    Katherine Jakeways
    Katherine Jakeways is a British comedian, actor and writer. Her television appearances include Extras, all 3 series of BBC1's The Armstrong and Miller Show and Miranda. She is also notable as one of the regular cast in the radio series Deep Trouble and Look Away Now and plays Mrs Pepys in Radio...

  • Carl Donnelly
    Carl Donnelly
    Carl Donnelly is an English stand-up comedian and writer.-Stand up career:Donnelly began his comedy career in 2004. He has since been a regular on the London comedy circuit...

  • Stephen Grant
    Stephen Grant (comedian)
    Stephen Grant is a British comedian and radio presenter best known for hosting the Krater Comedy Club at Komedia in Brighton, England, which won the Chortle Award for Best Comedy Club in the South from 2001 to 2009. Chortle.com says it granted Grant Best Compère in the 2008 Chortle Awards.-External...

  • Mara Carlyle
  • Stephen K Amos
  • Barry Davies
    Barry Davies
    Barry George Davies MBE is a British sports commentator. He has covered a wide range of sports in a long career, primarily for the BBC.-Broadcasting career:...

  • Jeff Green
    Jeff Green (comedian)
    Jeff Green is an English comedian and writer. He lives in Victoria, Australia with his wife and two children.- Stand-up :...

  • Shappi Khorsandi
  • Martin Jarvis
  • The Puppini Sisters
    The Puppini Sisters
    The Puppini Sisters are a vocal trio. Arion Berger described them as part of "Retro's futuristic vanguard" and described their sound as "swing-punk". The group has sought to be associated with a burlesque revival....

  • Stewart Lee
    Stewart Lee
    Stewart Lee is an English stand-up comedian, writer and director known for being one half of the 1990s comedy duo Lee and Herring, and for co-writing and directing the critically acclaimed and controversial stage show Jerry Springer - The Opera...


  • Episode 2: Thurs 3rd Jan 2008, 6.30pm

    • Arthur Smith
      Arthur Smith (comedian)
      Brian Arthur John Smith is an English alternative comedian and writer. He was born in Bermondsey, South London, brother to Richard Smith...

    • Kathryn Williams
      Kathryn Williams
      Kathryn Williams is an English singer-songwriter.-Background:Williams was born in Liverpool, and now lives in Newcastle upon Tyne after earning an art degree in the city. Williams released her first album, Dog Leap Stairs on her own Caw Records label in 1999 with a budget of £80...

    • Natalie Haynes
      Natalie Haynes
      Natalie Haynes is a British comedian and writer. She has been performing stand-up comedy since 1994 and was a member of Footlights at Cambridge University where she read Classics at Christ's College...

    • Murray Lachlan Young
      Murray Lachlan Young
      Murray Lachlan Young is a British performance poet whose humorous work enjoyed a spectacular but brief vogue during the mid-1990s. He was the first poet to be given a £1 million record deal, when he signed to EMI amid a blaze of publicity in 1996. He released one album, Vice And Verse.Young was...

    • Dave Fulton
    • Kevin Eldon
    • Paul Sinha
      Paul Sinha
      Paul Sinha is a British stand-up comedian and broadcaster. Sinha is openly gay, a subject he has discussed on stage.-Education:Sinha was educated at Dulwich College and St George's Hospital Medical School...

    • Fat Tongue
    • Mick Miller
    • I Am Kloot
      I Am Kloot
      I Am Kloot are an English band formed in Manchester, in 1999 by John Bramwell , Peter Jobson and Andy Hargreaves .-History:...

  • Phil Hammond
    Phil Hammond (comedian)
    Dr Philip Hammond is a general practitioner who has become noted as a comedian and commentator on health issues in the United Kingdom. Hammond was educated at Marlborough Grammar School, St John's Comprehensive, Marlborough, and Marlborough College...

  • Pappy's Fun Club
    Pappy's Fun Club
    Pappy's is an English sketch-comedy team consisting of comedians Ben Clark, Matthew Crosby and Tom Parry. After 5 years as the four-man team "Pappy's Fun Club", the group decided to change the name to "Pappy's" and continue without fourth member, Brendan Dodds...

  • FiveLive
  • Dan Evans
  • Faultless & Torrance
  • Joe Wilkinson
  • Joolz Denby
    Joolz Denby
    Joolz Denby is a poet, novelist and artist based in Bradford, UK.-Biography:...

  • Paul Kerensa
  • Philip Pope
    Philip Pope
    Philip R. J. Pope is a British composer and actor. He was educated at Downside School and New College, Oxford.-Performer:He appeared in the Oxford Revue in Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1978 and 1979, both with Angus Deayton...

  • Carrie Quinlan
  • Lizzie Roper
  • Mark Maier
  • Hils Barker
    Hils Barker
    Hils Barker is a British comedian and writer. She was a finalist in newcomer competitions So You Think You're Funny and The Daily Telegraph Open Mic Award, and went on to write and perform in two series of comedy show Radio9 for BBC Radio 4....

  • Pros From Dover
  • Andy Zaltzman
    Andy Zaltzman
    Andrew "Andy" Zaltzman is a British comedian and author who largely focuses on political material. He has worked extensively with John Oliver; their work together includes Political Animal, The Department and The Bugle.-Early life:...

  • Andrew Sachs
    Andrew Sachs
    Andrew Sachs is a German-born British actor. He made his name on British television and is best known for his portrayals of Manuel in Fawlty Towers, a role for which he was BAFTA-nominated, and Ramsay Clegg in Coronation Street.-Early life:Sachs was born in Berlin, Germany, the son of Katharina , a...

  • Jimmy Cricket
    Jimmy Cricket
    Jimmy Cricket is a comedian. He currently lives with his family in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England.- Early life and career :...

  • Marcus Brigstocke
    Marcus Brigstocke
    Marcus Alexander Brigstocke is an English comedian, actor and satirist who has worked extensively in stand-up comedy, television, radio and in 2010-2011 musical theatre. He is particularly associated with the 6.30pm comedy slot on BBC Radio 4, having frequently appeared on several of its shows...


  • Episode 3: Thurs 27th Mar 2008, 6.30pm

    • Phil Cornwell
      Phil Cornwell
      Phil Cornwell is an English comedian, actor, impressionist and writer. He is probably best known as being part of the Dead Ringers television and radio series...

    • Francesca Beard
      Francesca Beard
      Francesca Beard is a writer and performance poet.She has been based in London for much of her adult life and cites the city as a major inspiration in her work....

    • The Bearded Ladies
      Bearded Ladies (radio show)
      Bearded Ladies is a radio programme that was originally aired on BBC Radio 4 between 2003 and 2007. There are currently 22 half-hour episodes; although the last 6, aired in 2007, do have a loose narrative structure holding the individual sketches together, it is essentially a sketch-driven comedy...

    • Matt Morrisroe
    • James Sherwood
      James Sherwood (comedian)
      James Sherwood is a stand-up comedian, comedy writer, singer, pianist, and composer. He lives in Peckham, south London....

    • Jon Richardson
      Jon Richardson (entertainer)
      Jon Joel Richardson is a British comedian.Jon co-hosted a Sunday morning radio show on BBC 6 Music with fellow comedian and friend Russell Howard, and continued to present the show himself after Howard left, until 7 March 2010...

    • Tom McRae
      Tom McRae
      Tom McRae is an English singer-songwriter.-Career:The son of two Church of England vicars, McRae sang in the church choir and as a teen experimented with his mother's guitar...

    • Geoff McGivern
    • Liam Mullone
      Liam Mullone
      Liam Mullone is an alternative comedian, journalist and writer born in Leicester, UK and brought up in Hong Kong, now living and performing in London....

    • Danielle Ward
      Danielle Ward
      Danielle Ward is a British stand-up comedian and writer.-Career:In 2006 Ward won the Time Outs Critic's Choice award for Best Newcomer and wrote Take A Break Tales - exaggerated adaptations of women's magazine stories - in which she appeared with Neil Edmond, Emma Fryer and Isy Suttie at the...

  • John Finnemore
  • Greedy
  • Ian Stone
    Ian Stone
    Ian Stone is a British stand-up comedian, mainly famous for appearing as a guest on shows such as the comedy panel show Mock the Week. Stone is also a regular guest on BBC Radio 5's Fighting Talk.-Career:...

  • Gwyneth Herbert
    Gwyneth Herbert
    Gwyneth Herbert is a British singer-songwriter and pianist, initially known for her interpretation of jazz and swing standards, and now established as a writer of original compositions. She lives in Hackney, London....

  • Godliman & Lane
  • Lee Bannard
  • Simon Jones
    Simon Jones (actor)
    Simon Jones is an English actor, most famous for his appearances in the television and radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in which he played the lead role of Arthur Dent from 1978 to 2005...

  • Terry Saunders
  • Ginger and Black
  • Simon Evans
    Simon Evans
    Simon Evans , is an English comedian, born in Luton and currently living in Hove.-Early life:Simon Evans attended Verulam School in St Albans and then studied law at Southampton University, graduating in 1986.-Stand-up comedy:...

  • Nathan Penlington
    Nathan Penlington
    Nathan Penlington , is a poet, writer, live literature producer and magician. His work has appeared on stage, in print and on the radio.- Career :...

  • Sir Tim Fitzhigham
    Tim FitzHigham
    Tim FitzHigham FRSA FRGS is an award winning British comedian, author, and world record holder. The feats he has performed include paddling a paper boat down 160 miles of the River Thames, rowing a bathtub across the English Channel, and inflating the world's largest balloon.-Career:FitzHigham...

  • Lady Carol of the Moon
  • Alex Lowe
    Alex Lowe
    Stuart Alexander "Alex" Lowe , was widely considered one of his generation's finest all-around mountaineers...

  • Luke & Nadia
  • Will Smith
    Will Smith (comedian)
    Will Smith is a British comedian, actor and writer. He was born and grew up in Jersey and is known for his love and encyclopaedic knowledge of Bergerac, as well as his posh boy persona. He was educated at Victoria College, Jersey and Charterhouse School. He now lives in London...

  • Neil Innes
    Neil Innes
    Neil James Innes is an English writer and performer of comic songs, best known for his collaborative work with Monty Python, and for playing in the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and later The Rutles.-Personal life:...

  • Ford & Arthur
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