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Stand-Up Central
''Rob Delaney's Stand Up Central'' (formerly known as ''Russell Howard's Stand Up Central'' and ''Chris Ramsey's Stand Up Central'') is a British stand-up comedy television show. It started broadcasting on Comedy Central on 29 April 2015, and ran for ten episodes. The series features Delaney performing stand-up in front of a live audience at the Electric Ballroom in Camden and answering questions from social media. Each week also features two guests performing stand-up. The second series began broadcasting on 25 May 2016. In 2017, it was announced a third series was ordered, with Chris Ramsey replacing Howard, who could not return to present the series due to touring commitments. In 2018, for the fourth series, the host was Rob Delaney Rob Delaney (born January 19, 1977) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and activist. He is best known for co-creating and starring as Rob Norris in the sitcom '' Catastrophe'' (2015–2019), and Peter Wisdom in the superhero films ''Dead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Howard
Russell Joseph Howard (born 23 March 1980) is an English comedian, television presenter, radio presenter and actor. He has hosted his own television shows, ''Russell Howard's Good News'' and ''The Russell Howard Hour'', and appeared on the topical panel TV show ''Mock the Week''. He won "Best Master of Ceremonies#Comedy clubs, Compère" at the 2006 Chortle Awards and was nominated for an Edinburgh Comedy Awards, Edinburgh Comedy Award for his 2006 Aberdeen Festival Fringe show. Howard has cited comedians Lee Evans (comedian), Lee Evans, Richard Pryor, and Frank Skinner as influences. Early life Howard was born in Bath, Somerset, and raised in nearby Radstock, Somerset. His parents are Dave and Ninette Howard. He has two younger siblings, twins Kerry Howard, Kerry and Daniel (born 1982). Daniel has epilepsy, to which Howard sometimes refers during his act. Howard attended Hanham High School, Perins School in New Alresford and Alton College. He later studied economics at the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Wang (comedian)
Philip Nathaniel Wang Sin Goi (; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ''Vòng Hîn-kùi''; born 22 January 1990) is a British Malaysian, British-Malaysian stand-up comedian and comedy writer who is a member of the sketch comedy group Daphne (comedy), Daphne, and co-creator of their BBC Radio 4 series, ''Daphne Sounds Expensive''. He currently hosts the comedy podcast ‘BudPod’ with fellow comedian and Footlights alumnus Pierre Novellie. Early life Wang was born in Stoke-on-Trent to an English mother and a Malaysian Chinese, Chinese-Malaysian father of Hakka people, Hakka descent.Wang P (2019Phil Wang: Wangsplaining BBC Studios. A few weeks after his birth, his family returned to the city of Kota Kinabalu in Sabah, Malaysia where his parents had first met in 1982. Wang was raised in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia and educated in Malay, Mandarin, and English. He later studied at Jerudong International School in Brunei before moving to Bath, Somerset, Bath in the UK at 16. Wang attended Kingswood Scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Jones (singer)
Sir Thomas Jones Woodward (born Thomas John Woodward; 7 June 1940) is a Welsh singer. His career began with a string of top 10 hits in the 1960s and he has since toured regularly, with appearances in Las Vegas from 1967 to 2011. His voice has been described by AllMusic as a "full-throated, robust baritone". Jones's performing range has included pop, Rhythm and blues, R&B, show tunes, country music, country, dance, soul music, soul, and gospel music, gospel. In 2008, the ''New York Times'' called him a "musical shapeshifter [who could] slide from soulful rasp to pop croon, with a voice as husky as it was pretty". He has sold over 100 million records, with 36 Top 40 hits in the UK and 19 in the US, including "It's Not Unusual", "What's New Pussycat? (song), What's New Pussycat?", the Thunderball (soundtrack)#Title theme change, theme song for the James Bond film ''Thunderball (film), Thunderball'' (1965), "Green, Green Grass of Home", "Delilah (Tom Jones song), Delilah", "Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuriko Kotani
Yuriko Kotani is a Japanese comedian based in London. She won the 2015 BBC Radio New Comedy Award, making her the first Japanese person to win the award. She debuted her solo show ''Somosomo'' at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Kotani's comedy makes fun of the cultural differences between England and her homeland of Japan. Early life and career Kotani is from Aichi Prefecture. She moved to England in 2005 aged 24 with her then-boyfriend, who had been studying abroad in Japan. She was introduced to and "fell in love with British comedy". She began performing stand-up of her own in 2014. Breakthrough In 2015 Kotani was nominated for a number of awards for her comedy. Most notably, in November 2015 she won the BBC Radio New Comedy Award, aged 34. She was named as "One To Watch" by '' Time Out'' in 2015. She went on to become first runner-up in '' So You Think You're Funny 2015?'', won the Brighton Comedy Festival Squawker Award 2015, placed third in the Leicester Square T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhys James
Rhys James (born Rhys William Jones, 30 April 1991) is a British stand-up comedian. James has appeared on ''Mock the Week'' and '' Live at the Apollo''. Personal life James studied for a politics and international relations degree at Manchester University, starting his stand-up career in 2010 whilst still a student.Castle, Jill (2015)Rhys James on respect, Twitter and why he loves The Glasgow Stand, ''Glasgow Herald'', 22 July 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2016 He self-identifies as a straight, white, middle-class male and is a football fan and supports Tottenham Hotspur. Career James has appeared on ''Mock the Week'', ''Russell Howard's Stand Up Central'', ''@elevenish'', ''Virtually Famous'' and '' Sweat the Small Stuff''. In 2010 he performed as part of the Pleasance Comedy Reserve at the Edinburgh Fringe, was a finalist in the Laughing Boy New Act Competition and placed 3rd in 'Comedy Central's Funniest Student'. James also appeared on certain YouTube channels such as The Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Lycett
Joe Harry Lycett (born 1988), also known by the self-given moniker "Mummy", and officially self-renamed briefly as Hugo Boss in 2020, is a British comedian, television presenter, and painter. He has appeared on many TV shows, including '' Live at the Apollo'', '' Taskmaster'', ''Never Mind the Buzzcocks'', ''8 Out of 10 Cats'', '' QI'', as the announcer on Saturday BBC One show '' Epic Win'', the narrator for '' Ibiza Weekender'' and as the presenter on BBC Two's '' The Great British Sewing Bee'', and Channel 4's '' Joe Lycett's Got Your Back'' and '' Travel Man''. He is also recognised as one of Britain's most high-profile queer or pansexual men, and has partaken in advocacy for the LGBTQ community on many occasions. Early life and education Joe Harry Lycett was born in 1988 at Hall Green, Birmingham, to David Lycett and Helen ''née'' Scholey, and grew up in Solihull. His paternal Lycett family hailed from Staffordshire, while his grandmother's Wilkinson family came from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Carr
James Anthony Patrick Carr (born 15 September 1972) is an Irish-British comedian, presenter, writer and actor. He is known for his rapid-fire deadpan delivery of One-line joke, one-liners. He began his comedy career in 1997, and he has regularly appeared on television as the host of Channel 4 panel shows such as ''8 Out of 10 Cats, 8 Out of 10 Cats'', ''8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown'' and ''The Big Fat Quiz of the Year''. Early life and education James Anthony Patrick Carr was born on 15 September 1972, in Hounslow, London. He is the second of three sons born to Irish parents Nora Mary (née Lawlor; 19 September 1943 – 7 September 2001) and Patrick James "Jim" Carr (born 1945), an accountant who became the treasurer for computer company Unisys. His parents were married in 1970 and separated in 1994, never divorcing. Carr spent most of his early life in the village of Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire, where he attended Farnham Common School and Burnham Gramma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lego
Lego (, ; ; stylised as LEGO) is a line of plastic construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. Lego consists of variously coloured interlocking plastic bricks made of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) that accompany an array of gears, figurines called minifigures, and various other parts. Its pieces can be assembled and connected in many ways to construct objects, including vehicles, buildings, and working robots. Assembled Lego models can be taken apart, and their pieces can be reused to create new constructions. The Lego Group began manufacturing the interlocking toy bricks in 1949. Moulding is done in Denmark, Hungary, Mexico, and China. Brick decorations and packaging are done at plants in the former three countries and in the Czech Republic. Annual production of the bricks averages approximately 36 billion, or about 1140 elements per second. One of Europe's biggest companies, Lego is the largest to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wonky Vegetables
Wonky may refer to: * Wonky (genre), a music genre that appeared in 2006 * ''Wonky'' (album), a 2012 album by Orbital * Wonky pop Wonky pop was a loose grouping of musical acts that played what the BBC called "quirky, catchy and credible pop music, pop", rooted in the eccentric side of 1980s pop music, which was briefly popular in the late 2000s. Artists associated with th ..., a loose grouping of musical acts that played what the BBC called "quirky, catchy and credible pop" See also * Wonk (other) * Wonky hole, a submarine freshwater spring on the seabed in the Great Barrier Reef or the Gulf of Carpentaria of Queensland {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Helm
Nicholas Tristan Phillip Helm (born 1 October 1980) is an English comedian, actor and rock musician known for his comedic confrontational delivery. His routines have been described as "brash and bullish". Many of his performances begin with him acting calmly and see him gradually getting more and more enraged about what he is talking about. He came to prominence following the success of his 2010 Edinburgh Fringe show ''Keep Hold of the Gold''. In 2014, Helm made his main acting debut as lead character Andy in the BBC Three sitcom ''Uncle''. Early life Helm was born in Barts Hospital in West Smithfield, London, and raised in Finsbury Park, until the age of 8 when he then moved to St Albans, Hertfordshire. He attended Cunningham Hill Primary School, after which he went to Sandringham Secondary School. Following this he attended the University of Winchester. While at secondary school Helm began writing and performing. In 1997, when he was in the sixth form, his drama teacher L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Robins (comedian)
John Michael David Robins (born 4 May 1982)General Register Office; United Kingdom; Reference: ''Volume 22, Page 1473'' is an English stand-up comedy, stand-up comedian and Radio personality, radio presenter. Early life Robins was born and grew up in Thornbury, Gloucestershire, Thornbury and was educated at The Castle School and at St Anne's College, Oxford, where he read Medieval English, having reapplied to University of Oxford, Oxford after an initial unsuccessful application the previous year. After graduating from Oxford, Robins returned to Bristol, where in 2006, he shared a flat with fellow comedians Jon Richardson, Russell Howard and Mark Olver (comedian), Mark Olver. Career Robins began performing comedy in 2005, and reached the semi-finals of the ''So You Think You're Funny'' competition at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In 2007, he participated in the "Comedy Zone" showcase at the festival. Robins appeared both as guest and as co-presenter on both ''The Russell Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Farage
Nigel Paul Farage ( ; born 3 April 1964) is a British politician and broadcaster who has been Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Clacton (UK Parliament constituency), Clacton and Leader of Reform UK since 2024, having previously been its leader from 2019 to 2021. He was the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2006 to 2009 and 2010 to 2016. Farage served as a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England (European Parliament constituency), South East England from 1999 until the UK's withdrawal from the European Union (EU) in 2020. A prominent Euroscepticism in the United Kingdom, Eurosceptic since the early 1990s, Farage was first elected to the European Parliament (EP) in 1999. In 2004, he became the president of Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy. Farage was 2006 UK Independence Party leadership election, elected UKIP's leader in 2006 and led the party at the 2009 European Parliament election, when it won the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
