Kevin Hunter Day (born 3 May 1961) is a British

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and

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presenter. He came to prominence in the British

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stand up scene of the late eighties and early nineties, playing clubs like

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. This led to him hosting the comedy discussion programme Loose Talk on

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from 1992 to 1994, having initially co-hosted with

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when the programme was launched in 1991. He has co-hosted the Channel 5 sports programme ''Live and Dangerous'' with Mark Webster. He has written for Dave Allen,

Jo Brand Josephine Grace Brand (born 23 July 1957) is an English actress, comedian, presenter and writer. Starting her entertainment career with a move from psychiatric nursing to the alternative comedy stand-up scene and early performances on '' Satur ...

and

The 11 O'Clock Show ''The 11 O'Clock Show'' was a satirical late-night British television comedy series on Channel 4 which featured topical sketches and commentary on news items. It ran between 30 September 1998 and 8 December 2000, most notably hosted by Iain Lee ...

. In 2005 Day became, and is still, a programme associate for ''

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'' and contributes to the writing on the programme delivered by the guest hosts each week. He had previously been a guest on the show in 1991. In 2005 he played Gary Mills in the TV comedy ''

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''. Since 2004 he has been a regular on

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. He was an occasional guest presenter on the

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discussion show ''Serious About Comedy''. He was also a regular on

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's Sunday morning radio programme on

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. Aside from this, as a

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fan, he regularly appears on the fan-made

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, "Five Year Plan Fanzine". Since 2019 Day presents a podcast called The Price of Football with academic and football finances expert

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. In the 1970s he was briefly a member of the National Front, a racist political party. He says it took the death of his black friend Richard Campbell in police custody in 1980 to "make the scales quickly fall from my eyes." He then became a left-wing activist, using his previous experience in his 1993

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show ''I Was A Teenage Racist''. Born in

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, Day is a supporter of Crystal Palace football team and even held his wedding reception at the banqueting suite of the club's

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stadium. He aided the campaign of the supporters' trust when the club was in administration and close to extinction in the late 1990s.

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British radio writers British television writers English stand-up comedians Living people Writers from London 1965 births {{UK-comedian-stub