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Monkey Trousers
''Monkey Trousers'' is a television comedy series on ITV first broadcast in 2005, featuring Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer, Alistair McGowan, Steve Coogan, John Thomson, Ronni Ancona, Mackenzie Crook, Griff Rhys Jones, Alex Lowe, Neil Morrissey, Patsy Palmer, Rebecca Front, Marc Wootton, Matt Berry Matthew Charles Berry (born 2 May 1974) is an English actor, comedian, musician, and writer. Noted for his distinctive voice, he is best known for his television roles in comedy series such as ''The IT Crowd'', ''Garth Marenghi's Darkplace'', ' ... and Mark Benton. It was directed by David Kerr and produced by Reeves and Mortimer's production company, Pett Productions. It succeeded ''The All Star Comedy Show'', which was written by and starring Reeves and Mortimer, and produced by Coogan, who also starred. Sketches of the show included a character who liked to run around shouting the show's title "Monkey Trousers" (Reeves), the moronic, yet fearless 'Croc Botherer' and Alista ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy
Comedy is a genre of dramatic works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. Origins Comedy originated in ancient Greece: in Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in Ancient Greek theatre, theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a dramatic performance pitting two groups, ages, genders, or societies against each other in an amusing ''agon'' or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old". A revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions posing obstacles to his hopes. In this struggle, the youth then becomes constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to resort to ruses which e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITV (TV Network)
ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast television network. It is branded as ITV1 in most of the UK except for central and northern Scotland, where it is branded as STV (TV channel), STV. It was launched in 1955 as Independent Television to provide competition to BBC Television (established in 1936). ITV is the oldest commercial network in the UK. Since the passing of the Broadcasting Act 1990, it has been Legal name, legally known as Channel 3 to distinguish it from the other analogue channels at the time: BBC1, BBC2 and Channel 4. ITV was, for decades, a network of separate companies that provided regional television services and also shared programmes among themselves to be shown on the entire network. Each franchise was originally owned by a different company. After several mergers, the fifteen regional franchises are now held by two companies: ITV plc, which runs ITV1, the ITV1 cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 British Television Series Debuts
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. Humans, and many other animals, have 5 digits on their limbs. Mathematics 5 is a Fermat prime, a Mersenne prime exponent, as well as a Fibonacci number. 5 is the first congruent number, as well as the length of the hypotenuse of the smallest integer-sided right triangle, making part of the smallest Pythagorean triple ( 3, 4, 5). 5 is the first safe prime and the first good prime. 11 forms the first pair of sexy primes with 5. 5 is the second Fermat prime, of a total of five known Fermat primes. 5 is also the first of three known Wilson primes (5, 13, 563). Geometry A shape with five sides is called a pentagon. The pentagon is the first regular polygon that does not tile the plane with copies of itself. It is the largest face any of the five regular three-dimensional regular Platonic solid can have. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s British Comedy Television Series
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a "sh" phoneme, so the derived Greek letter Sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter '' Samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ), "to hiss". The original name of the letter "Sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pett Productions
''Pett Productions'' was an independent production company, established by Bob Mortimer, Vic Reeves and Lisa Clark in 2001. The company was based at the Maidstone Studios in Maidstone, Kent and has produced several television shows in comedy, reality, documentary and internet format. It was dissolved in May 2015. Productions *'' The Fight'' (2003) A boxing match for Comic Relief, held between Ricky Gervais and Grant Bovey. The winner received £5000 for charity. (BBC Two, 1 episode) *''Star Chamber'' (2003) Pilot of a debate program featuring Mortimer as chairman, Rhys Thomas as his sidekick and Vic Reeves, Charlie Higson, Johnny Vegas and Liz Smith in debate (BBC Two, 1 episode). *'' Celebrity Dog School'' (2003) Event held for Comic Relief in which celebrities Johnny Vaughan, Michelle Ryan, Ronnie Corbett, Julian Clary, Jake Humphrey, Dora Bryan and Linda Barker teamed up with a special dog trainer and pitted their dogs against each other to see whose was best trained. (BB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Kerr (director)
David Kerr (born 3 September 1967) is a British film and television director. His debut feature film, '' Johnny English Strikes Again'', was released internationally by Focus Features and Universal Pictures in 2018. David has a long track record as a pilot/lead director of award-winning TV comedy and drama, which includes '' No Offence'', '' Inside No.9'', '' Fresh Meat'', '' Beautiful People'' and ''Whites''. Early life Born in Belfast on 3 September 1967, he studied at Clare College, Cambridge and graduated (1989) with a First Class degree in Classics. Career He directs commercials through Hungry Man Productions. In 2015, his US gun control spot, "Playthings", won Best PSA at The AICP Show in New York. David was presented with a British Academy Television Award for directing the first series of ''That Mitchell and Webb Look'' in 2006. He was nominated for another BAFTA for the second series in 2008. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Berry
Matthew Charles Berry (born 2 May 1974) is an English actor, comedian, musician, and writer. Noted for his distinctive voice, he is best known for his television roles in comedy series such as ''The IT Crowd'', ''Garth Marenghi's Darkplace'', ''The Mighty Boosh (TV series), The Mighty Boosh'', ''Snuff Box (TV series), Snuff Box'', What We Do in the Shadows (TV series), ''What We Do in the Shadows'', ''Krapopolis'', and ''Toast of London'', the last of which he also co-created and scored. For ''Toast of London'', Berry won one British Academy Television Award for Best Male Comedy Performance, BAFTA Award for Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme. For ''What We Do in the Shadows'', he has been nominated for one Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and two Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series, Critics' Choice Television Awards for Best Actor in a Comedy Series. He has also released 11 studio albums, the vast majority ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Wootton
Marc James Wootton (born 8 February 1975) is an English actor, comedian and writer. He is best known for his role as Mr Poppy in the '' Nativity!'' film series. He also starred in the television series '' High Spirits with Shirley Ghostman'', ''La La Land'', '' Nighty Night'' and voiced Max in '' Counterfeit Cat''. He Voiced 2015 In Wuassywat The Clusmy Cat & Hippopotamus Voiced United Animals Career Wootton made early television appearances on the Channel 4 comedy show '' The Eleven O'Clock Show'' and BBC Three's '' Cyderdelic'', E4 comedy '' The Pilot Show'' and the BBC Two sitcom '' Thin Ice''. His breakthrough role came with the Channel 4 comedy gameshow '' My New Best Friend'', in which contestants had to convince their closest friends and relatives that a series of awful characters (played by Wootton) were their new best friend, for a prize of £10,000. He then wrote and starred in the BBC Three sketch show '' Marc Wootton Exposed'', the first series of which started o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Morrissey
Neil Anthony Morrissey (born 4 July 1962) is an English actor, businessman, narrator, and television presenter. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Rocky in ''Boon (TV series), Boon'', and Tony in ''Men Behaving Badly''. Other notable acting roles include Deputy Head Eddie Lawson in the BBC One school-based drama series ''Waterloo Road (TV series), Waterloo Road'', and Nigel Morton in ''Line of Duty''. Morrissey also provided the voice of the Bob the Builder (character), titular character, Lofty, Roley, and others in ''Bob the Builder''. Early life Morrissey was born in Stafford, Staffordshire on 4 July 1962, the third of four sons of Irish parents who were both psychiatric nurses. Neil, aged 10, and his brother Stephen, aged 12, stole sweets and stationery from a shop. In court, a magistrate issued a care order and the pair were sent to separate Orphanage, children's homes, Neil spending most of his time (six years) at Penkhull Children's Home, from 1974. under the care of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Griff Rhys Jones
Griffith Rhys Jones (born 16 November 1953) is a Welsh actor, comedian, writer and television presenter. He starred in a number of television series with his comedy partner, Mel Smith. He and Smith came to national attention in the 1980s for their work in the BBC television comedy sketch shows ''Not the Nine O'Clock News'' and ''Alas Smith and Jones''. From 2008 to 2018, Jones presented the television bloopers show '' It'll Be Alright on the Night'' for ITV, having replaced Denis Norden and being succeeded in 2018 by David Walliams. Early life and education Griffith Rhys Jones was born on 16 November 1953 in Cardiff, the son of Gwynneth Margaret (née Jones) and Elwyn Rhys Jones, a medical doctor. He was six months old when his family moved to West Sussex due to his father's occupation.Matthew Stadle"Griff Rhys Jones: 'I’m greedy for life – I do too many things'" ''The Daily Telegraph'', 3 November 2014. Jones attended Conifers Primary School in Midhurst, West Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mackenzie Crook
Mackenzie Crook (born Paul James Crook, 29 September 1971) is an English actor, director, comedian and writer best known for his roles in television and film. He gained widespread recognition for portraying Gareth Keenan in the British sitcom ''The Office (British TV series), The Office'' (2001–2003) and for his role as Pintel and Ragetti, Ragetti in the ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' film series (2003–2007). He also played List of Game of Thrones characters#Beyond the Wall, Orell in the HBO series ''Game of Thrones'', and the Worzel Gummidge, title role of ''Worzel Gummidge (2019 TV series), Worzel Gummidge'' (2019–2022), which he wrote and directed. Crook has also worked extensively in theatre, including a Tony Award-nominated performance in ''Jerusalem''. His career spans comedy, drama, and fantasy, establishing him as a versatile figure in British entertainment. Early life Crook was born on 29 September 1971 in Maidstone, Kent, and grew up in Dartford, Kent. He is the so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
