Alan Davies
Stand-up comedian, writer and actor best known for playing the title role in Jonathan Creek and as a permanent panellist on QI. Alan Davies began performing stand-up comedy in 1988 at the Whitstable Labour Club and was named Time Out’s Best Young Comic in 1991. He continued touring and performing in the UK and Australia, winning the Edinburgh Festival Critics Award for Comedy in 1994. In 1994 and 1995 he hosted Alan’s Big One for three series on Radio 1 before appearing in Channel 4’s spoof travel show One for the Road. Alan played the title role in Jonathan Creek between 1997 and 2004. The character worked as a creative consultant to a stage magician while also solving seemingly supernatural mysteries through his talent for logical deduction and understanding of illusions. The show won a BAFTA for Best Drama and Continue Reading »
Alexander Armstrong
Alexander is a brilliant British comedian, actor and television presenter, known for being one half of double act Armstrong and Miller (with Ben Miller) and as a frequent presenter of the satirical panel show Have I got News For You. He 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 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, and 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 1994, and returned in 1996, whereupon Continue Reading »
Chris Addison
Chris is a stand-up comedian, writer and actor from Manchester and has been performing stand-up comedy since 1995. In that year, he won the City Life Comedian of the Year Award, a stand-up competition in the North West of England. He is known for his lecture-style comedy shows, two of which he later adapted for BBC Radio 4. In addition to stand-up, in television he plays Ollie in the BBC Two television satire The Thick of It and Toby in its spin-off film In the Loop, and he co-created and starred in the BBC Two sitcom Lab Rats. 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 Continue Reading »
Chris Moyles
Chris is a hugle popular English radio and television presenter and author, most famous for being the presenter of ‘The Chris Moyles Show‘ on BBC Radio 1. He and his team have transformed the breakfast show on the station and increased the audience up to 6.5 million. Moyles has a team on his show that makes his style distinct and individual. The most prominent of the team is Chris’ fellow DJ Dave Vitty or Comedy Dave as he is commonly known. He has worked with Chris for years as well as hosting a show with DJ Mark Chapman. On 7 September 2009, Moyles became BBC Radio 1’s longest serving breakfast presenter. He has achieved various Radio awards, and has helped raise money for charity by taking part in challenges, aired on TV on behalf of Comic Relief. Chris joined Radio Continue Reading »
