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Caroline Quentin
Wednesday 18 January 2012
Caroline Quentin is well known for her role as Dorothy in Men Behaving Badly, for which she won the Best Comedy Actress Award at the 1995 Comedy Awards. Her extensive acting credits also include the first three series of Jonathan Creek, three series of Kiss Me Kate and three series of Life of Riley, for which she won another British Comedy Actress Award in 2004.
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Dave Spikey
Monday 20 June 2011
Dave Spikey is a multi-award winning comedian, writer and actor. In 1996, Dave met his long-term comedy partner Peter Kay, who he went on to collaborate with extensively.
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Laila Rouass
Monday 20 June 2011
Laila Rouass is a British actress best known for her role as Amber Gates in the TV drama series Footballers Wives.
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Meera Syal
Monday 20 June 2011
Meera Syal is an Indo-British comedienne, writer, playwright, singer, journalist, producer and actress. She's best known for her television work, having risen to prominence as one of the team that created Goodness Gracious Me and becoming one of the UK's best-known Indian personalities, portraying Sanjeev's grandmother, Ummi, in The Kumars at No. 42. But she's also a successful author, having written Anita and Me, which was also turned into a film in 2002, and Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee.
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Jo Brand
Monday 20 June 2011
Jo Brand is – most famously – a stand-up comedian. However, she is also the author of three novels: Sorting Out Billy (2005), It's Different for Girls (2006) and The More you Ignore Me (2009). She also writes for television.
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Adrian Edmondson
Monday 20 June 2011
One of Britain's most respected comedy actors, Adrian Edmondson was a founding member of Comic Strip Presents..., the classic, outrageous and 'alternative' early Channel 4 comedy series, much of which he also co-wrote and directed, before achieving further widespread notoriety as Vyvyan in The Young Ones on the BBC.
