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The Jon Richardson Show
''The Jon Richardson Show'' was a weekly radio show on BBC 6 Music, which was created due to the departure of Russell Howard from ''The Russell Howard Show'', which Jon Richardson co-hosted with Russell. The show was broadcast on Sundays from 10am to 1pm. It was co-hosted by Matt ("Fordie") Forde, who usually joined Jon at 12noon. On Sunday 7 February 2010, Richardson announced that after three and a half years on 6 Music, he would be leaving the station after the 7 March show. He said he didn't want "to get typecast as a DJ", as he is a comic. He went on to state "I've loved doing it, so I'd love to do more radio at some point", but after he has asserted himself further as a stand-up comic. On Sunday 7 March 2010, the last show aired. Features Guest Comedian, each week Jon invites a different comedian each week to join him in the studio for usually at least the first hour of the show. Rarely, two or more comedians may also be featured, such as Pappy's Fun Club. Cheer up Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC 6Music
BBC Radio 6 Music is a British digital radio station owned and operated by the BBC, specialising primarily in alternative music. BBC 6 Music was the first national music radio station to be launched by the BBC in 32 years. It is available only on digital media: DAB radio, BBC Sounds, digital television, and throughout northern and western Europe through the Astra 2B satellite. BBC 6 Music has been described as a "dedicated alternative music station". Many presenters have argued against the perception that the main focus is indie guitar music. The station itself describes its output as "the cutting edge music of today, the iconic and groundbreaking music of the past 40 years and unlimited access to the BBC's wonderful music archive". Since 2014, an annual music festival, 6 Music Festival, has been held in different cities around the United Kingdom and broadcast live on the station. In July 2010, the BBC Trust announced it had rejected a proposal by the BBC to close 6 Music to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John McCain
John Sidney McCain III (August 29, 1936 – August 25, 2018) was an American politician and United States Navy officer who served as a United States senator from Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the United States House of Representatives and was the Republican nominee for president of the United States in the 2008 election, which he lost to Barack Obama. McCain graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1958 and received a commission in the United States Navy. He became a naval aviator and flew ground-attack aircraft from aircraft carriers. During the Vietnam War, McCain almost died in the 1967 USS ''Forrestal'' fire. While on a bombing mission during Operation Rolling Thunder over Hanoi in October 1967, he was shot down, seriously injured, and captured by the North Vietnamese. McCain was a prisoner of war until 1973. He experienced episodes of torture and refused an out-of-sequence early release. During th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Pitcher
''Al (Alan)'' Geoffrey Pitcher (born 28 March 1972) is a New Zealand stand-up comedian who works and lives in Sweden. Pitcher was born in Huddersfield, England but grew up in New Zealand. He now lives in Stockholm with his wife Anita Pitcher and the couple have two children. He studied at John Paul College in Rotorua, New Zealand. He started his stand-up career in 1999 when he made it to the final of So You Think You're Funny. Since then he has appeared in the final of "The Daily Telegraph Open Mic Awards", worked for the BBC and performed at England's biggest stand up clubs. Pitcher had his Swedish stand up debut in 2009 and the same year he also won the Best Show category at the Leicester Comedy Festival, Directors Pick 2009 at the Newcastle Comedy festival and Peoples Choice Award 2009 by ''Time Out Sydney''. Since February 2011, he has worked for Comedy Central LIVE with stand up and was awarded the title Male stand up of the year at Svenska Stand up-galan. He wrote the h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Atkinson
Dan Atkinson (born 1961 in Brighton) is a British journalist and author. Atkinson has been an independent writer and commentator on financial and economic affairs since 2017 after he had been financial editor of Sticky Content since 2013. Before then, he was economics editor of '' The Mail on Sunday'' since 2000 before which he was for ten years a financial correspondent with '' The Guardian''. In that role, he specialised in issues of regulation and fraud. Between 1985 and 1990, he was deputy City Editor of the Press Association, which he joined after an apprenticeship and a stint as business correspondent at the '' Reading Evening Post''. He lives in Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English .... Works * ''Europe Didn't Work'' by Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson (Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lloyd Langford
Lloyd Langford (born 6 August 1983) is a Welsh comedian, comedy writer and voice artist. Early life and education Langford was born in Baglan, Neath Port Talbot. He studied film and television at the University of Warwick; he chose this because film interested him, he wanted to live somewhere new and did not want to lock himself into a vocation so early on. He was regularly MC at Warwick Comedy's weekly Sunday night stand-up show. Career Langford was a regular panellist on '' Ask Rhod Gilbert'' and has written additional material for TV shows '' Live at the Apollo'', '' Never Mind the Buzzcocks'' and '' The King is Dead''. He has provided audience warm-up on '' QI'' and been a contributor on '' Rhod Gilbert's Work Experience''. Langford has appeared as a guest on several comedy and panel shows, including '' Russell Howard's Good News'', '' The News Quiz'', '' The Now Show'', '' 8 Out of 10 Cats'', '' QI'' and '' The Dog Ate My Homework'', '' Have You Been Paying Attention' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Millican
Sarah Jane Millican ( King; born 29 May 1975) is an English comedian, writer and presenter. Millican won the comedy award for Best Newcomer at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In February 2013 she was listed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Radio 4's ''Woman's Hour'', and in the same year she married fellow comedian Gary Delaney. Her first book, ''How to Be Champion'', was published in 2017. Millican has performed on various tours, mainly across the United Kingdom, over the years. Early life Millican was born and brought up in South Shields, England, the daughter of Valerie Prince and Philip D. King, who was a mining electrician. She attended Mortimer Comprehensive School, later to become Mortimer Community College, and then worked as a civil servant at a job centre until the age of 29. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael McIntyre
Michael Hazen James McIntyre (born 21 February 1976) is an English comedian, writer and television presenter. In 2012, he was the highest-grossing stand-up comedian in the world. He currently presents his own Saturday night series, ''Michael McIntyre's Big Show'', and the game show, '' The Wheel'', on BBC One. In addition to stand-up comedy, McIntyre has hosted his own BBC One comedy programme '' Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow'', has featured in three episodes of '' Live at the Apollo'' and, in 2011, was a judge on ''Britain's Got Talent''. Early life Born in London to Thomas Cameron McIntyre, known as Ray Cameron, a Canadian comedian and comedy writer in British television, and his wife Kati, and their daughter Lucy. McIntyre grew up in the industry. McIntyre is a dual British-Canadian citizen, by virtue of his late father who committed suicide while in Hollywood in the U.S. His mother, Kati, is of Hungarian Jewish ancestry. Career Television McIntyre has appeared th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josie Long
Josie Isabel Long (born 17 April 1982) is a British comedian. She started performing as a stand-up at the age of 14 and won the BBC New Comedy Awards at 17. In 2006, Long won the If.comeddies Best Newcomer award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for her show ''Kindness and Exuberance''. She has been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show three times. In 2012, Long and director Doug King produced two short comedy films in Glasgow called ''Let's Go Swimming'' and ''Romance and Adventure'', which were nominated for a BAFTA Scotland New Talent Award. Early life and education Long was born in Sidcup and spent her early life in Orpington, London, where she attended Newstead Wood School for Girls. She began performing stand-up comedy at 14, winning the BBC New Comedy Awards at the age of 17. Long attended Michael Knighton's comedy course in Beckenham, London. At 18 she gave up stand-up whilst attending Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, ran experimental comedy c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rufus Hound
Rufus Hound (born Robert James Blair Simpson 6 March 1979) is an English actor, comedian and presenter. Early life Hound was born on 6 March 1979, in Essex and moved to Surrey at the age of seven. He was educated at Hoe Bridge School Woking, Frensham Heights and Godalming College, where he was elected as a Student Representative and built the college radio station. After leaving school he began working for a PR agency but started performing comedy in the evenings. In 2000, he left his job as an account executive for Claire's Accessories to begin working full-time as a stand-up comedian. While working at the Edinburgh Festival he adopted the stage name 'Rufus Hound' for the first time. Television and radio Hound hosted ''Destination Three'', the coverage of the Glastonbury Festival and '' Top of the Pops'' in 2005 and 2006 alongside Fearne Cotton. He presented the idiosyncratic reality show ''Grime Scene Investigation'' on BBC Three with staff and students from Aston Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnab Chanda
Arnab Chanda is an English born actor, writer, and director. Career He was born in England in Pontefract, but left at age 6 and grew up in Saudi Arabia and the US. After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2003, he started doing stand-up comedy in New York City. He moved to London in 2004, and won the Jongleurs New Act Competition in 2005, the Amused Moose Comedy Awards in 2006, and was nominated for Best Newcomer in the 2007 British Chortle Awards. He stopped performing stand-up in 2010. Performances He has performed stand up on the Comedy Central UK shows ''The World Stands Up'' in 2007, ''Edinburgh & Beyond'' in 2007, and the ''Comedy Store'' in 2008, Russell Howard's Good News (BBC Three, Series 2, 2010), The Stephen K Amos Show (BBC Two, Series 1, 2010), and Chris Moyles' Comedy Empire (BBC Three, 2012) . He has also appeared on The Jon Richardson Show (BBC 6 Music), The Comedy Cafe with Janice Forsyth (BBC Scotland), ''Out to Lunch'' (BBC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jarred Christmas
Jarred Christmas (born 1980) is a comedian from New Zealand who now lives and works in the United Kingdom. He won the Chortle Comedy Award for Best Compere. Early life Christmas grew up in Christchurch. He attended an all-boys secondary school where he did not fit in because he was not into sport. In 1996, he went to Hagley Community College for fifth form (now called Year 11) and credits the school with turning his life around, saying "For the first time in my life I met people who were themselves. It really changed my life." Christmas moved to Britain in 2003. Career Television and film Christmas has appeared on radio, film, television and stage. On television, he has appeared as a performer and guest panellist on shows such as BBC Two's '' Never Mind the Buzzcocks'' and '' Mock the Week'', BBC Three's '' Russell Howard's Good News'', Channel 4's '' 8 Out of 10 Cats'' and Dave's ''One Night Stand''. In 2008 he appeared in Pot Noodle television advertisements. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen K Amos
Stephen Kehinde Amos (born 3 December 1967) is a British stand-up comedian and television personality. A regular on the international comedy circuit, he is known for including his audience members during his shows. He began his career as a compere at the Big Fish comedy clubs in South London, and has been nominated for Chortle's Best Compere Award three times in 2004, 2007 and 2008. Performances and tours Amos has performed stand up at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe every year since 2003, after making his début in 2001. During the 2006 Fringe, he performed the revealing solo show ''All of Me'', in which he publicly acknowledged his own homosexuality to his audience for the first time. He hosted a chat show on weekends (in addition to his own show), performed as a guest at various extra festival shows, such as ''Spank!'', and performed daily in Stewart Lee's production of Eric Bogosian's play '' Talk Radio''. Away from the fringe, Amos is a regular performer at The Comed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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