|
Katy Brand's Big Ass Show
''Katy Brand's Big Ass Show'' is a British comedy programme on ITV2. The show features comedian Katy Brand in skits of real life situations and stereotypes, as well and celebrities such as Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, Lady Gaga, Angelina Jolie, Adele and Kate Winslet. The second series began on 2 September 2008. The series was carried in Canada on CBC's bold channel as of October 2008, and in Portugal on RTP2, each Sunday latenights at 11:50 pm, on the "Britcom" strand (the first non-BBC series to be broadcast on this strand). Her comic clips in the second series include Princess Beatrice of York, Kate Moss, Leona Lewis, Jesus, the Queen and ''Secret Diary of a Call Girl''. A Christmas special called ''Katy Brand's Big Ass Songs of 2008'' aired on 13 December 2008. The third and final series ran from 10 September 2009 to 15 October 2009. When Katy appeared on Justin Lee Collins: Good Times she stated that there would be no more series of Katy Brand's Big Ass Show and that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katy Brand
Katherine Frances Brand (born 1979), known as Katy Brand, is an English actress, comedian and writer, known for her ITV2 series ''Katy Brand's Big Ass Show'' and for Comedy Lab ''Slap'' on Channel 4. Early life and education Brand was born in Buckinghamshire, England, in 1979, and enjoyed making people laugh with her impressions as a young child. Brand attended St Clement Danes School in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire. Following a summer holiday at 13 with friends who were evangelical Christians she embraced their faith and attended church five times a week. Motivated to read theology at Keble College, Oxford, she then lost her religious beliefs while a student. Interviewed for the ''Evening Standard'' in 2007, she commented: "After about a year, I realised it was mostly rubbish and that things are never as simple as they seem when you are 13". While at Oxford, she started to write and perform comedy, musicals and serious plays, joining the Oxford Revue and the university's dram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leona Lewis
Leona Louise Lewis (born 3 April 1985) is a British singer, songwriter, actress and activist. Born and raised in the London Borough of Islington, she attended the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon. Lewis achieved national recognition when she won the third series of ''The X Factor'' in 2006, winning a £1 million recording contract with Syco Music. Her winner's single, a cover of Kelly Clarkson's " A Moment Like This", peaked at number one for four weeks on the UK Singles Chart and broke a world record by reaching 50,000 digital downloads within 30 minutes. In February 2007, Lewis signed a five-album contract in the United States with Clive Davis's record label, J Records. Lewis's success continued with the release of her debut studio album, ''Spirit'' (2007), which was certified 10× platinum in the UK and became the fourth best-selling album of the 2000s and one of the best-selling albums in UK chart history. According to the Official Charts Compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Velile Tshabalala
Velile Tshabalala (born 09 March 1984) is a British actress, known for portraying Kareesha Lopez in ''Kerching!'' and Rosita in the 2008 '' Doctor Who'' special " The Next Doctor". Background Born in Whitechapel, London, Tshabalala was raised in Ilford. She is of Zimbabwean descent. Her father is a mechanical engineer and her mother is a health visitor. She has one sister and two brothers. She trained at the Sylvia Young Theatre School, where she attended weekend classes from the age of 14. Career Tshabalala made her professional debut at the age of 18, in the CBBC sitcom ''Kerching!''. She played waitress Kareesha Lopez, who did very little work and was a stereotypical teenage girl. She played several roles in all three series of the BBC Three sketch comedy ''Tittybangbang''. She appeared as a prostitute in the 2004 short film ''Streets''. In January 2008, she played a librarian in the ''ChuckleVision'' episode "Jumping Jackpot". She played Rosita in that year's '' Doctor Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Stone
Ian Stone is a British stand-up comedian, broadcaster and writer notable for appearing as a guest on shows such as the comedy panel show ''Mock the Week''. Stone was also a regular guest on BBC Radio 5's ''Fighting Talk''. His book about following The Jam and growing up in London in the late 1970s was published by Unbound in June 2020. Career Stone began his career as a stand-up comedian in 1991. He first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1996, in a tour controversially called, ''A Little Piece of Kike''.Gibbons, Fiachra (2000)Festival joke on Holocaust provokes outrage, ''The Guardian'', 10 August 2000, retrieved 2011-08-16 Stone later appeared on several television shows, including '' The 11 O'Clock Show'', '' The Late Edition'', '' Never Mind The Buzzcocks'' and ''Mock the Week''. In 2013 Stone began presenting 'Off the Ball' a weekly comedy football show on ESPN with Bob Mills. This format was transferred to BT Sport in time for the 2014 World Cup and renamed The Footb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanna Neary
Joanna Neary is a British comedian, writer and actress. Her solo, character-based stage shows include ''Youth Club'' and ''Joanna Neary Is Not Feeling Herself'', which received a Perrier Best Newcomer award nomination in 2004. She has also appeared in the TV shows ''Time Trumpet'', ''Angelo's'', ''That Mitchell and Webb Look'', '' Skins'', '' Dogface'', '' Man Down'' and ''Ideal''. Radio credits include acting as an ensemble member of the cast in the first series of the '' Count Arthur Strong Radio Show'', as well as appearing in numerous series of the Radio 4 show ''Out to Lunch''. Harry Deansway, writing in ''The Guardian'', described Neary as "a character actress par excellence; not only are her characters well observed and immaculately performed, but they are well written and, most importantly, funny....A Joyce Grenfell of our age." Education Neary grew up in Redruth, Cornwall. She told ''The West Briton'', "After leaving Pool School I did an art degree at Falmouth and bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Lance
James Frederick Grenville Lance (born 29 September 1974) is an English actor, best known for his appearances in a number of British comedy series and the British-American comedy series '' Ted Lasso'' for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series in 2022. Early life Lance was born in Southampton and grew up in Westbury-sub-Mendip, Somerset, he attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School. Career Lance's appearances in comedy series include ''Top Buzzer'', ''I'm Alan Partridge'', '' Absolute Power'', ''Spaced'', '' Absolutely Fabulous'', '' Smack the Pony'', '' The Book Group'', '' 2point4 Children'', '' Rescue Me'', '' Doc Martin'', '' People Like Us'', '' No Heroics'', ''Toast of London'', ''Saxondale'' and, most recently, as the recurring character Trent Crimm, a sportswriter at ''The Independent'', on the Apple TV+ series '' Ted Lasso''. Drama appearances have included ''Teachers'', ''Boy Meets Girl'', '' The Impressioni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rufus Jones (actor)
Rufus Jones (born 17 May 1975) is an English actor. Early life Jones was born in London, and educated at Latymer Upper School and the University of Cambridge, where he studied English. Career Jones began his career as one fifth of the comedy group Dutch Elm Conservatoire. On television, he is known for playing Doctor Foggerty in Julia Davis's award-winning dark comedy '' Hunderby,'' producer David Wilkes in ''W1A,'' and Miles Mollison in the BBC television mini series ''The Casual Vacancy''. He also played Terry Jones in the BBC Four BAFTA-nominated ''Holy Flying Circus,'' Cosmo in comedy-drama ''Stag,'' and Tom in Julia Davis's ''Camping.'' In 2006, Jones appeared as the journalist in series 2 episode 3 of the BBC comedy '' Extras''. Other credits include ''Mongrels'' (in which he voiced Nelson The Fox), ''William & Sinclair'' for Sky Atlantic's ''Common Ground'' season, ''Episodes'', '' It's Kevin'', '' The Wrong Mans'', '' Fresh Meat'' (series 2), '' Toast of London'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoe Gardner
Zoe Gardner (born 1975, London, England) is a comedy writer/actress in television, radio and theatre. Gardner studied at Cambridge University and is half of the comedy team ''The Congress of Oddities''. They have recorded a TV pilot based on their live ''Congress'' shows for Celador Productions. Credits Recent television includes; ''Mongrels'' (BBC Three) 2010, ''Ideal'' ( BBC Two) 2009, ''Katy Brand's Big Ass Show'', ( ITV2) 2008/09, ''Cowards'' ( BBC Four) 2008, ''Comedy Shuffle'' (BBC Three) 2007, ''28 Acts in 28 Minutes'' (BBC Three) 2007, ''The Slammer'' (CBBC) 2006, ''Meet The Blogs'' (Mersey Television Lime Pictures, formerly known as Mersey Television, is a British television production company, founded by producer and writer Phil Redmond in the early 1980s. They produce award winning drama, and entertainment shows, for the international ma ...), 2006 ''Comedy Cuts'' ( Granada for ITV2) 2007. Gardner also wrote and performed her own solo show entitled ''Zoe Gardn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Cabourn-Smith
Margaret Alice Cabourn-Smith (born 1975) is an English comedy actress with appearances on ''Catastrophe'', '' The IT Crowd'', '' Psychoville,'' '' Peep Show'' and ''Fresh Meat''. Her TV work includes playing regular characters on '' Miranda'', ''Katy Brand's Big Ass Show'', '' Lab Rats,'' ''In and Out of The Kitchen'' and '' Father Figure''. She plays Crimson in Disney Channel's ''The Evermoor Chronicles'' Her radio work includes many of The Penny Dreadfuls' plays, ''John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme''. '' The Now Show'', ''Sarah Millican's Support Group'', '' The Maltby Collection'', '' Bigipedia'', ''Newsjack'', ''Dilemma'', ''Another Case of Milton Jones'', ''Life in London'', ''The Headset Set'' and '' 1966 and All That''. She is also one of the team captains on the comedy podcast ''Do The Right Thing''. Stage work includes ''Angus, Thongs & Even More Snogging'' (West Yorkshire Playhouse 2012) and ''Gutted'' (Assembly Rooms, 2010) She writes for online magazine ''Stan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Armand
David Armand (born David Robert Whitehead in September 1977) is an English comedian, actor and writer who has performed on stage, film, radio and most notably, television, where the shows he has appeared in include '' Fast and Loose'', ''Episodes'', ''How Not to Live Your Life'', '' Pulling'', '' The Armstrong & Miller Show'', ''Swinging'', and ''Peep Show''. He is one of the writers and stars of the hit CBBC comedy shows ''Sorry, I've Got No Head'', and its sister show, '' Pixelface. ''He has also written for shows such as ''The Peter Serafinowicz Show'' and'' Katy Brand's Big Ass Show.'' Early life and career Born in the Northamptonshire town of Kettering, Armand was educated at Latimer Community Arts College, St Catharine's College, Cambridge and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. As a member of the sketch comedy troupe ''The Hollow Men'', he appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe four times between 1999 and 2002, travelled to America as a participant at the 2003 US C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Parkinson
Katherine Jane Parkinson (born 9 March 1978) is an English actress. She appeared in Channel 4's '' The IT Crowd'' comedy series as Jen Barber, for which she received a British Comedy Best TV Actress Award in 2009 and 2014, and was nominated twice for the BAFTA Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance, winning in 2014. Parkinson studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and has appeared on stage in the plays ''The Seagull'' (2007), '' Cock'' (2009), and ''Home, I'm Darling'' (2018), for which she was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Play. Parkinson was also a main cast member of the series ''Doc Martin'' for three series (2005–2009). She co-starred in all three series of ''Humans'', a science-fiction drama on AMC/Channel 4, which aired from 2015 until 2018. She has also appeared in the films ''The Boat That Rocked'' (2009) and ''The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society'' (2018). Early life Parkinson was born on 9 March 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Times
''Good Times'' is an American television sitcom that aired for six seasons on CBS, from February 8, 1974, to August 1, 1979. Created by Eric Monte and Mike Evans and developed by executive producer Norman Lear, it was television's first African American two-parent family sitcom. ''Good Times'' is a spin-off of '' Maude,'' which itself is a spin-off of ''All in the Family''. In September 2020, it was announced that the series would receive an animated sitcom revival produced with Norman Lear executive producing alongside Seth MacFarlane and Steph Curry for Netflix. Synopsis Florida and James (renamed from Henry) Evans and their three children live at 721 North Gilbert Avenue, apartment 17C, in a public housing project in a poor, black neighborhood in inner-city Chicago. The project is unnamed on the show but is implicitly the infamous Cabrini–Green Homes, shown in the opening and closing credits. Florida and James have three children: James Jr., also known as "J.J.", a bud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
