Multi-talented performer best known for creating Channel 4's Bo' Selecta! and portraying Keith Lemon. Early Life Leigh Francis studied graphic design at the Leeds College of Art. Before making his major TV breakthrough, he performed in-role stand up comedy in a southern comedy club. Early Characters McCall landed Francis...
Matt Lucas is a comedian and TV presenter. Early Life Matt Lucas was born in Paddington, London and grew up in a Jewish household. He has suffered with alopecia since his childhood and lost all his hair when he was six. Work with Reeves and Mortimer Matt's association with...
Offbeat comedian who showed us the wonderfully prosaic world of YouTube user comments. Adam and Joe With Joe Cornish, Adam Buxton forms one half of the duo Adam and Joe. The pair presented their own show on BBC Radio 6 Music. Buxton and Cornish created The Adam and...
TV’s chattiest man. Gregarious comedy performer and interviewer known for his honest, self-deprecating style. Alan Carr has won 2 British Comedy Awards, 2 National Television Awards and is also the recipient of a BAFTA TV Award. Radio Alan made his radio presenting debut on Christmas Day 2007 for...
Comedy surrealist and one half of Vic and Bob. If not doing comedy or acting, he’s probably painting. Music Before finding fame with his comedy, James Roderick Moir was a member of several bands with many different names. He usually played bass guitar and/or sang. He sold...
Smart, straight-talking Welsh comedian, actor, presenter and documentary maker. Partnership with Mel Smith From 1984, Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones appeared in the comedy sketch series Alas Smith and Jones. After the first series, the pair appeared on the big screen in Mike Hodges' sci-fi comedy...
Working class comedy royalty. Smart and intuitive. Ricky plays the banjo and harpsichord and is a proud lifelong Liverpool FC supporter. TV As an actor Ricky Tomlinson has appeared as Bobby Grant in the soap opera Brookside, followed by DCI Charlie Wise in Cracker and as Jim...
A classy, well-spoken and much-loved, informed English gent with a vocabulary as grand as his accomplishments. Fry and Laurie While at university, Stephen Fry became involved with the Cambridge Footlights, where he met his long-time collaborator Hugh Laurie. As half of the comic double act Fry and...
Omid Djalili is an award-winning British-Iranian comedian, actor, television producer and writer. Omid has also featured in many films and television programmes. He had great success at the Edinburgh Festivals of 1993 and 1994 with his one-man theatre piece. He became a festival favourite with a...