Martin White
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Martin White is an English
musician
, comedian
and animator
. As well as performing solo with an accordion
around the London comedy circuit, White also fronts the Mystery Fax Machine Orchestra and the Karaoke Circus
live bands. He performs jingles regularly in the comedy podcast Answer Me This!
.
White co-wrote Psister Psycho - a musical about a killer robotic lesbian nun - with Danielle Ward
for the 2007 Edinburgh Festival. The show was a success and nominated for the Chortle Award for Best Full Length Show 2008. White and Ward currently co-present on Dave Gorman
's Sunday morning show on Absolute Radio, where White has a regular slot performing an improvised song, covering as many of the topics discussed on that week's show as possible. These are accompanied by a range instruments such as the accordion, one of his most popular songs being "Using Things As Other Things". Martin also sits in on the programme's "Pun Street Planning Committee", a slot where the presenters discuss businesses that use puns as their names.
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
musician
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
, comedian
Comedian
A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...
and animator
Animator
An animator is an artist who creates multiple images that give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence; the images are called frames and key frames. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, video games, and the internet. Usually, an...
. As well as performing solo with an accordion
Accordion
The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
around the London comedy circuit, White also fronts the Mystery Fax Machine Orchestra and the Karaoke Circus
Karaoke Circus
Karaoke Circus is a British Karaoke night where guest singers from the world of comedy compete alongside members of the public for a coveted prize. Sometimes called 'Ward & White's Karaoke Circus', the show was started by composer Martin White and stand-up comedienne Danielle Ward in October 2008...
live bands. He performs jingles regularly in the comedy podcast Answer Me This!
Answer Me This!
Answer Me This! is a weekly comedy podcast by Helen Zaltzman and Olly Mann in which they answer questions submitted by the general public. Recorded in Zaltzman's living-room in Crystal Palace, it began in January 2007 and has since become one of the UK's most successful independently-produced...
.
White co-wrote Psister Psycho - a musical about a killer robotic lesbian nun - with 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...
for the 2007 Edinburgh Festival. The show was a success and nominated for the Chortle Award for Best Full Length Show 2008. White and Ward currently co-present on Dave Gorman
Dave Gorman
David James Gorman is an English author, stand-up comedian and presenter. He has performed comedy shows on stage in which he tells stories of extreme adventures and presents the evidence to the audience in order to prove to them that they are true stories...
's Sunday morning show on Absolute Radio, where White has a regular slot performing an improvised song, covering as many of the topics discussed on that week's show as possible. These are accompanied by a range instruments such as the accordion, one of his most popular songs being "Using Things As Other Things". Martin also sits in on the programme's "Pun Street Planning Committee", a slot where the presenters discuss businesses that use puns as their names.