Today is Red Nose Day in the UK. It’s a day that happens on a Friday in March in odd years where a lot of people around the UK “do something funny for money”. Schoolchildren pay a pound to not wear their uniforms to school and normally self-respecting adults will… Read more »
Hey, sorry this one’s late, all! I think you won’t mind the wait when you see this week’s Comedian You Should Know. He’s American, but lives and works in England now after having trained as an actor in London. I’m very glad he switched to comedy, though. We need to… Read more »
Yes, he’s Scottish and yes, his last name is Boyle. But he’s not related to Susan Boyle. And he may look like one of The Proclaimers, but he’s not that, either. In fact, he’s about as far from either as you can get. Frankie Boyle has made a name for… Read more »
This week’s comedian is probably best known in Britain as the Mitchell half of comedy duo Mitchell and Webb and as PC (to Robert Webb’s Mac) in the UK Apple ads. He’s also well known for appearing on numerous panel games and writing a column in the Observer on Sundays…. Read more »
Dara Ó Briain is many things: stand-up comic, panel show host and author, but he’s also a lot of other interesting things. For example, he’s a former kids’ TV presenter in his native Ireland, fluent in Irish Gaelic, Irish national debating champ, self-confessed science nerd and Catholic atheist. You may… Read more »
I’m going to classify this week’s Comedian You Should Know, Sarah Millican, as an up-and-coming comedian. She’s already making a good name for herself and she’s been around a few years, and though she’s on the cusp of being huge, she not there quite yet. So pay attention to these… Read more »
Here’s one that should be familiar to any fan of British sci-fi. Catherine Tate starred opposite David Tennant’s Tenth Doctor as Donna Noble, the “best temp in Chiswick” and perhaps the most important woman in the universe (during the fourth series of “Doctor Who”, at least.) But did you know… Read more »
You guys have no idea how happy I am to be able to introduce this week’s comedian! I’ve been a fan of Rhod Gilbert‘s for a good few years now. I think I stumbled across his BBC Radio Wales podcasts when the BBC’s podcast trial first went live in 2007…. Read more »
Hey! We’re back in known unknown territory this week with a white, British bloke! I first found out about this week’s comedian, Marcus Brigstocke, listening to podcasts of BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show, a topical radio comedy skit show. Then, I knew him purely as a liberal rantmeister par… Read more »
I’ll bet there are a lot of people reading this who know this week’s comedian, but I wanted to make sure all of The Discriminating Fangirl’s readers got the chance to meet him. He’s an American, but born in Iran and moved to America when he was six years old…. Read more »
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