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Mark "Bill" Bailey[1] (born 24 February 1964, Bath, Somerset) is an English stand-up comedian, musician and actor, known for appearing on Have I Got News for You, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, QI, and Black Books as well as his stand up comedy. He is a self proclaimed "confused hippy" known for his thin goatee and skullet hairstyle. Bill Bailey may refer to: Bill Bailey (born Percy William Bailey III, 1948), a serial entrepreneur and inventor living in Texas. ...
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Richard Pryor hits the money line A stand-up comedian or stand-up comic is someone that performs in comedy clubs, usually reciting a fast paced succession of amusing stories, short jokes and one-liners, typically called a monologue. ...
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Have I Got News for You is a British television panel show produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC. It is based loosely on the BBC Radio 4 show The News Quiz, and has been running since 1990. ...
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Black Books is a British sitcom broadcast on Channel 4 starring Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey and Tamsin Greig. ...
Richard Pryor hits the money line A stand-up comedian or stand-up comic is someone that performs in comedy clubs, usually reciting a fast paced succession of amusing stories, short jokes and one-liners, typically called a monologue. ...
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Bailey was listed by The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy in 2003, and in 2007 he was voted number seven on Channel 4's hundred greatest stand-ups. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...
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Personal life Bailey was born on 24 February 1964. He spent the majority of his childhood in Keynsham, a town situated in the Somerset countryside between Bath and Bristol, and being an only child he received a lot of attention. His father was a general practitioner and his mother was a hospital ward sister. His maternal grandparents lived in an annex, built on the side of the house by his maternal grandfather who was a stonemason and builder. Two rooms at the front of the family house were for his father's surgery.[2] is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Keynsham (pronounced CANE-shm), is a town between Bristol and Bath in south west England. ...
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Bailey was educated at King Edward's School, Bath,[3] where he was initially an academic pupil winning most of the prizes. However, at about the age of 15 years, he started to become distracted from school work when he realised the thrill of performance as a member of a school band called "Behind closed doors", which played mostly original work. He was the only pupil at his school to study A level music and he passed with an 'A' grade. He also claims to have been good at sport (captain of KES 2nd XI cricket team 1982), which often surprised his teachers. He would often combine the two by leading the singing on the long coach trip back from away rugby fixtures. It was here that he was given his nickname Bill for being able to play the song "Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey" so well on the guitar.[2] King Edwards School (KES), Bath in South-West England is a Private School providing education for pupils aged 3 - 18. ...
The A-level, short for Advanced Level, is a General Certificate of Education qualification in England, Northern Ireland and Wales, usually taken by students during the optional final two years of secondary school (Years 12 & 13 (usually ages 16-18), commonly called the Sixth Form except for Scotland), or at...
(Wont You Come Home) Bill Bailey, originally titled Bill Bailey, Wont You Please Come Home is a popular song published in 1902. ...
He spent his early years listening to Monty Python records, and rehearsing with a band called the "Famous Five",[4] who he himself confesses were very bad but still much better than him and who, unexpectedly, had six members.[5] However, he is a classically trained musician and received an associateship with the London College of Music. Despite this, he has said that he always had the temptation to be silly with music, a trait that influences his stand-up shows. Monty Python, or The Pythons,[2][3] is the collective name of the creators of Monty Pythons Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. ...
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Bailey often mythologises his early years in his stand-up. In his show Bewilderness, he claims to have attended Bovington Gurney School of Performing Arts and Owl Sanctuary. He talks about a succession of jobs he had before becoming a comedian, including lounge pianist, crematorium organist, door-to-door door-salesman and accompaniment for a mind-reading dog. A clip of Bailey's appearance in the dog's routine was shown during his Room 101 appearance. He also is self-deprecating about his appearance, suggesting he is so hairy that he is part troll, or that his hair or beard is a small animal named Lionel who he has trained to sit 'very very still.' A pianist is a person who plays the piano. ...
Telepathy, from the Greek τῆλε, tele, remote; and πάθεια, patheia, to be effected by, describes the hypothetical transfer of information on thoughts or feelings between individuals by means other than the five classical senses. ...
Room 101 was a BBC comedy television series based on the radio series of the same name, in which celebrities are invited to discuss their hates with the host in order to have them consigned to the eponymous chamber from the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. ...
Bailey also talks about his role as a "Disenfranchised Owl" in an experimental Welsh theatre troupe (mentioned in an interview with Australian newspaper Post). Other acting roles included a part in a Workers' Revolutionary Party stage production called The Printers, which also featured Vanessa Redgrave and Frances de la Tour. His trivia page on IMDb also claims that he was awarded Best Actor in the 1986 Institut Français awards. This article is about the country. ...
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Vanessa Redgrave, CBE (born 30 January 1937) is an Academy Award winning English actress and member of the Redgrave family, one of the enduring theatrical dynasties. ...
Frances de la Tour (born 30 July 1944) is a Tony Award winning English actress. ...
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An avid Star Trek fan, he named his son Dax (born 2003) after the Star Trek: Deep Space 9 character Dax and often refers to himself as a Klingon (once claiming that his ear-mounted microphone made him resemble, among other things, a Klingon motivational speaker). This article is about the entire Star Trek franchise. ...
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Career
Early stand-up Bailey began touring the country with other comedians such as Mark Lamarr. In 1986 he formed a double act, the Rubber Bishops, with Toby Longworth who was replaced in 1988 by Martin Stubbs. They achieved a certain amount of success on the club circuit, partly due to their rigorous schedule — sometimes as many as three or four gigs a night. It was here that Bailey began developing his own unique style, mixing in musical parodies with deconstructions of or variations on traditional jokes ("How many amoebas does it take to change a lightbulb? One, no two! No four! No eight...") - according to comedy folklore, after a reviewer once criticised his act for its lack of jokes, Bailey returned the following night to perform a set composed entirely of punchlines. Mark Lamarr (born Mark Jones on January 7, 1967 in Swindon, Wiltshire) is an English comedian and a presenter on radio and television. ...
Toby Longworth is a British actor who has appeared on film, radio and television. ...
A parody (pronounced ), in contemporary usage, is a work created to mock, comment on, or poke fun at an original work, its subject, or author, by means of humorous or satiric imitation. ...
Deconstruction is a term in contemporary philosophy, literary criticism, and the social sciences, denoting a process by which the texts and languages of Western philosophy (in particular) appear to shift and complicate in meaning when read in light of the assumptions and absences they reveal within themselves. ...
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Stubbs later quit to pursue a more serious career, and in 1994 Bailey performed Rock at the Edinburgh Fringe with Sean Lock, a show about an ageing rockstar and his roadie, script-edited by comedy writer Jim Miller. It was later serialised for the Mark Radcliffe show on BBC Radio 1. However, the show's attendances were not impressive and on one occasion the only person in the audience was comedian Dominic Holland. Bailey confessed in an interview with The Independent that he almost gave it up to do a telesales job. The gate for the street fair portion of the festival on the Royal Mile, in August 2007. ...
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The road crew (or roadies) are the technicians who travel on tour, usually in sleeper buses, with musicians and who handle every part of the production except actually playing the music. ...
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Mark Radcliffe (born 29 June 1958) is an English broadcaster who has worked in various roles for the BBC since the 1980s. ...
BBC Radio 1 (commonly referred to as just Radio 1) is a British national radio station operated by the BBC, specialising in popular music and speech and is aimed primarily at the 14-29[1] age group. ...
Dominic Holland is a British comedian, television presenter and author. ...
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He persevered, however, and went solo the next year with the one man show Bill Bailey's Cosmic Jam. The show was very well received and led to a recording at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London which was broadcast in 1996 on Channel 4 as a one-hour special called Bill Bailey Live. It was not until 2005 that this was released in DVD uncut and under its original title. It marked the first time that Bailey had been able to tie together his music and post-modern gags with the whimsical rambling style he is now known for. In music, a solo is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer (solo is an Italian word literally meaning alone). ...
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Postmodernism (sometimes abbreviated pomo) is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture, which are generally characterized as either emerging from, in reaction to, or superseding, modernism. ...
A joke is a short story or ironic depiction of a situation communicated with the intent of being humorous. ...
Rambling is the act of speaking or writing in a fragmented, disorganized manner; moving aimlessly from subject to subject. ...
After supporting Donna McPhail in 1995 and winning a Time Out award, he returned to Edinburgh in 1996 with a critically acclaimed show that was nominated for the Perrier Comedy Award. Amongst the other nominees was future Black Books co-star Dylan Moran, who narrowly beat him in the closest vote in the award's history. Donna McPhail is a British television presenter and stand up comedian from London. ...
Time-out can mean: sport time-out, a break in play that may be called by a side to formulate strategy or respond to an players injury. ...
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The Perrier Comedy Award is a prestigious award for comedy, awarded to the best comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe sponsored by the Perrier brand of bottled water. ...
Black Books is a British sitcom broadcast on Channel 4 starring Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey and Tamsin Greig. ...
Dylan Moran (born November 3, 1971) is a BAFTA and Perrier Award-winning Irish comedian, actor and writer. ...
Bailey won the Best Live Stand-Up award at the British Comedy Awards, 1999. B. J. Novak in a stand-up comedy routine at Olde English sketch comedy in June 2007. ...
The British Comedy Awards is an annual awards ceremony in the United Kingdom celebrating notable comedians and entertainment performances of the previous year. ...
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Television Though he didn't win the Perrier in 1996, the nomination was enough to get him noticed, and in 1998 the BBC gave him his own television show, Is It Bill Bailey? The Perrier Comedy Award is a prestigious award for comedy, awarded to the best comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe sponsored by the Perrier brand of bottled water. ...
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Is It Bill Bailey? is a stand up/sketch comedy series written by and starring Bill Bailey. ...
This was not Bailey's first foray into television. As early as 1991, he was appearing in stand-up shows such as The Happening, Packing Them In, The Stand Up Show, and The Comedy Store. He also appeared as captain on two panel games, an ITV music quiz pilot called Pop Dogs, and the poorly received Channel 4 sci-fi quiz show, Space Cadets. However Is it Bill Bailey? was the first time he had written and presented his own show. A game show is a radio or television program, involving members of the public or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, playing a game, perhaps involving answering quiz questions, for points or prizes. ...
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Space Cadets was a short-lived comedy panel game broadcast on Channel 4 in 1997. ...
With his star on the rise and gaining public recognition, over the next few years, Bailey made well received guest appearances on shows such as Have I Got News For You, World Cup Comedy, Room 101, Des O'Connor Tonight, Coast to Coast and three episodes of off-beat Channel 4 sitcom Spaced, in which he played comic-shop manager Bilbo Bagshot. Have I Got News for You is a British television panel show produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC. It is based loosely on the BBC Radio 4 show The News Quiz, and has been running since 1990. ...
Room 101 was a BBC comedy television series based on the radio series of the same name, in which celebrities are invited to discuss their hates with the host in order to have them consigned to the eponymous chamber from the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. ...
Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof (born January 12, 1932) is a veteran English television personality. ...
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In 1998, Dylan Moran approached him with the pilot script for Black Books, a Channel 4 sitcom about a grumpy bookshop owner, his put-upon assistant, and their neurotic female friend. It was commissioned in 2000, and Bailey took the part of the assistant Manny Bianco, with Moran playing the owner Bernard, and Tamsin Greig the friend, Fran. Three series of six episodes were made, building up a large cult fanbase, providing the public awareness on which Bailey would build a successful national tour in 2001. Dylan Moran (born November 3, 1971) is a BAFTA and Perrier Award-winning Irish comedian, actor and writer. ...
Black Books is a British sitcom broadcast on Channel 4 starring Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey and Tamsin Greig. ...
Manny Bianco is a fictional bookseller and a central character in the British comedy sitcom Black Books, portrayed by Bill Bailey. ...
Tamsin Greig (IPA pronunciation ), born 12 July 1966)[1] is an English actress best known for her comedy performances. ...
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When Sean Hughes left his long-term role as a captain on Never Mind the Buzzcocks in 2002, Bailey became his successor. His style quickly blended into the show, possibly helped by his background in music. He soon developed a rapport of sorts with host Mark Lamarr, who continually teased him about his looks and his pre-occupation with woodland animals. Sean Hughes (born John Hughes, London, November 19, 1965) is an Irish comedian who, whilst being born in London, spent much of his youth in Firhouse, Dublin. ...
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Mark Lamarr (born Mark Jones on January 7, 1967 in Swindon, Wiltshire) is an English comedian and a presenter on radio and television. ...
Bailey has appeared frequently on the intellectual panel game QI since it began in 2003, appearing alongside host Stephen Fry and regular panellist Alan Davies. Other television appearances include a cameo role in Alan Davies' drama series Jonathan Creek as failing street magician Kenny Starkiss and obsessed guitar teacher in the "Holiday" episode of Sean Lock's Fifteen Storeys High. He later appeared with Lock again as a guest on his show TV Heaven, Telly Hell. He has also appeared twice on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, and is in demand as a guest on shows such as Richard & Judy and BBC News.[citation needed] For other uses, see QI (disambiguation). ...
Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, writer, actor, humourist, novelist, columnist, filmmaker and television personality. ...
Alan Davies (born 6 March 1966) is an English comedian and actor best known for starring as Jonathan Creek on the popular TV mystery series of the same name. ...
Jonathan Creek is a British mystery television series produced by the BBC and written by David Renwick. ...
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15 Storeys High is a 2002 British sitcom, set in a tower block, written by Sean Lock, Martin Trenaman and Mark Lamarr (as Mark Jones), and directed by Mark Nunneley. ...
TV Heaven, Telly Hell is a comedy television show on Channel 4, presented and produced by Sean Lock. ...
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross is a chat show presented by Jonathan Ross. ...
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Bailey also presented Wild Thing I Love You which began on Channel 4 on October 15, 2006. The series focuses on the protection of Britain's wild animals, and has included rehoming badgers, owls, and water voles. This article is about the British television station. ...
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Bailey has most recently appeared in the second series of the E4 teenage "dramedy" Skins playing Maxxie's Dad, Walter Oliver. In episode 1, Walter struggles with his son's desire to be a dancer, instead wishing him to become a builder, which is what he himself does for a living. Walter is married to Jackie, played by Fiona Allen. Skins is a BAFTA-winning British comedic teen drama from Company Pictures which premièred on E4 on January 25, 2007. ...
Fiona Allen (born in Bury, Lancashire on 3 January 1965) is a British comedian. ...
Bill appeared on the first episode of Grand Designs Live on 4 May 2008, helping Kevin McCloud build his eco-friendly home. Grand Designs is a Channel 4 TV series covering unusual architectural house-building projects, presented by Kevin McCloud and produced by Talkback. ...
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International tours In 2001, Bailey began touring the globe with Bewilderness, which became a huge success. A recording of a performance in Swansea was released on DVD the same year, and the show was broadcast on Channel 4 that Christmas. A modified version of it also proved successful in America, and in 2002 Bill released a CD of a recording at the WestBeth Theatre in New York. The show contained all his trademarks, popular music parodies (such as Unisex Chip Shop, a Billy Bragg tribute which he actually performed with Billy Bragg at the 2005 Glastonbury Festival), "three men in a pub" jokes (including one in the style of Geoffrey Chaucer) and deconstructions of television themes such as Countdown and The Magic Roundabout. A 'Bewilderness' CD was sold outside gigs, which was actually just a mixture of studio recordings of songs and monologues Bill had performed in the past - it was later released in shops as Bill Bailey: The Ultimate Collection... Ever!. That same year he also presented a Channel 4 countdown, Top Ten Prog Rock. For other places with the same name, see Swansea (disambiguation). ...
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Stephen William Bragg (born December 20, 1957 in Essex, England), better known as Billy Bragg, is an English musician who blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs. ...
The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or Glasto, is the largest[1] greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world. ...
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Bailey premiered his show Part Troll at the Edinburgh Fringe in the summer of 2003. A critical and commercial success, he then transferred it to the West End where tickets sold out in under 24 hours, and new dates had to be added. Since then he has toured it all over the UK as well as in America, Australia and New Zealand. The show marked the first time Bailey had really tackled political material, as he expanded on subjects such as the war on Iraq, which he had only touched upon before in his Bewilderness New York show. He also talks extensively on drugs, at one point asking the audience to name different ways of baking cannabis. A DVD was released in 2004. West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre in London, England, or sometimes more specifically for shows staged in the large theatres of Londons Theatreland. Along with New Yorks Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre...
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2005 finally saw the release of his 1996 show Bill Bailey's Cosmic Jam. The 2-disc set also contained a director's cut of Bewilderness, which featured a routine on Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time not seen in the original version. A directors cut is a specially edited version of a film, and less often TV series, music video, commercials or video games, that is supposed to represent the directors own approved edit. ...
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Bailey appeared at the Beautiful Days festival in August 2007, and has recently finished touring with his latest stand-up gig, Tinselworm. The UK leg of the tour enjoyed 3 sell-out nights at the MEN Arena in Manchester, Europe's largest indoor arena, and culminated with a sell-out performance at Wembley Arena. The Beautiful Days is a music festival that takes place in August at Escot Park, Ottery St Mary, Devon. ...
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Other appearances In 2000 he had a small role in British comedy film Saving Grace, and also voiced the sperm whale in 2005's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie. Saving Grace is a 2000 comedy/crime film, starring Brenda Blethyn, Craig Ferguson and Martin Clunes. ...
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In 2002, Bailey provided the voice for a BMW Mini advertising campaign, as well as writing and performing a series of British Airways adverts in which, through the use of music, he took a humorous look at several locations around the world. The BMW or New MINI is a car produced by BMW since 2001. ...
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Bailey has also proved to be a talented dramatic actor in two Edinburgh Fringe shows directed by Guy Masterson. He played Juror Number 4 in a 2003 version of Twelve Angry Men featuring 12 comedians, and also co-starred as Oscar in a 2005 production of The Odd Couple, alongside Alan Davies and several other comedians, including Owen O'Neill and Ian Coppinger. Both of these performances received generally good reviews. The gate for the street fair portion of the festival on the Royal Mile, in August 2007. ...
12 Angry Men is a 1957 film which tells the story of one lone juror who holds out against the other eleven members of the jury because he is not convinced that the defendant is guilty. ...
Walter Matthau and Art Carney in the 1965 Broadway production The Odd Couple was a hit 1965 Broadway play by Neil Simon, followed by a successful film and television series, as well as other derivative works and spinoffs, many featuring one or more of the same actors. ...
Radio appearances include two episodes each of Chain Reaction, The 99p Challenge, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, and Just a Minute, as well as presenting Good Vibrations: The History of the Theremin, co-hosting The Museum Of Curiosity and appearing on Loose Ends. Chain Reaction is a hostless chat show first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. ...
The 99p Challenge is a spoof panel game originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4. ...
Im Sorry I Havent a Clue, sometimes abbreviated to ISIHAC or simply Clue, is a BBC radio comedy which has run since April 11, 1972. ...
Just a Minute is a BBC Radio 4 radio comedy panel game which has been running continuously since its first broadcast on December 22, 1967. ...
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Loose Ends is a British radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4. ...
In 2005, he appeared in Birmingham, as an act for "Jasper Carrott's Rock with Laughter". He appeared alongside performers such as Bonnie Tyler, Jasper Carrott, Lenny Henry, Bobby Davro and the Lord of the Dance troupe. This article is about the British city. ...
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Jasper Carrott OBE (born Robert Davis, March 14, 1945) is an English comedian (declaring himself world famous in Birmingham). // Born in Acocks Green, Birmingham, he was educated at Moseley Grammar School and later attended Aston University in the heart of Birmingham. ...
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Bill Bailey was due to appear in Shaun of the Dead, but in the commentary included with the DVD Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright said that he was not in the film because he was busy with other commitments at the time. He did however have two minor roles as the police receptionists in Pegg and Wright's 2007 film Hot Fuzz. Shaun of the Dead is a zombie-themed romantic comedy (or rom zom com as it dubs itself) or zombie comedy released in 2004. ...
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In February 2007 Bailey organised, produced and starred in a West End show called Pinter's People, a collection of sketches by playwright Harold Pinter. The show also starred Kevin Eldon, Sally Phillips and Geraldine McNulty. West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre in London, England, or sometimes more specifically for shows staged in the large theatres of Londons Theatreland. Along with New Yorks Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre...
Pinters People is a sketch show based on the work of English playwright Harold Pinter which began on 30th January 2007 and will run for four weeks at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in London. ...
Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (born 10 October 1930) is an English playwright, screenwriter, poet, actor, director, author, and political activist. ...
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Sally Phillips (born 10 May 1970) is a British comic actress. ...
Geraldine McNulty is a British stage and television actress. ...
In March 2007, Bill Bailey appeared at the International Human Beatbox Convention at the South Bank Centre in London, introducing Shlomo to the stage for the climax of the concert, as well as showing off his own beatboxing. Shlomo is a human beatboxer from Leeds. ...
On 4 May 2007, he appeared as the guest presenter of BBC One's Have I Got News for You and again on the 2008-05-09. is the 124th day of the year (125th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ...
For the BBC radio station, see BBC Radio 1. ...
Have I Got News for You is a British television panel show produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC. It is based loosely on the BBC Radio 4 show The News Quiz, and has been running since 1990. ...
2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Era (or Anno Domini), in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. ...
is the 129th day of the year (130th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
In July 2007, Bill Bailey narrated a series of animated reading books for dyslexic children called 'Nessy Tales'. July 2007 is the seventh month of that year. ...
Bill Bailey performed in the MEN arena, prominent guests included Catherine Stace.
On 9 June 2008 Bailey was the guest on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs[2] and, later the same day, appeared in the first episode of an adaptation of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists on the same station. is the 160th day of the year (161st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Era (or Anno Domini), in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. ...
Desert Island Discs is a long-running BBC Radio 4 programme. ...
The only work of Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is regarded as one of the most important novels concerning the class war in Britain at the turn of the 20th century. ...
Music Bailey is a talented pianist and guitarist and has absolute pitch. His stand-up routines often feature music from genres such as jazz, rock (most notably prog rock from the early seventies), drum'n'bass, and classical, usually for comedic value. Favourite instruments include the keyboard, guitar, theremin, kazoo and bongos. He was also part of punk band Beergut 100,[6] which he founded in 1995 with comedy writer Jim Miller, and which also featured Martin Trenaman and Phil Welans, with Kevin Eldon as lead singer.[7] The band performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2006.[8] Trenaman and Welans had previously appeared in Cosmic Jam under the name "The Stan Ellis Experiment", and Trenaman and Eldon later featured with John Moloney in the Kraftwerk homage "Das Hokey Kokey" on the Part Troll tour. Bill claims that he and the 3 other performers are a Kraftwerk tribute band called Augenblick. To mark the final gig of the Part Troll tour on 1 January 2005 the band reappeared on stage after the "Das Hokey Kokey" joke to play an hour-long encore of music. Pianoforte redirects here. ...
For other uses, see Guitar (disambiguation). ...
Absolute pitch (AP), widely referred to as perfect pitch, is the ability of a person to identify or sing a musical note without the benefit of a known reference. ...
For the Swedish political music movement, see progg. ...
For other uses, see Guitar (disambiguation). ...
Léon Theremin playing an early theremin The theremin (originally pronounced but often anglicized as [1]), or thereminvox, is one of the earliest fully electronic musical instruments. ...
For the visual effects software, Kazoo, see ZOO Digital Group. ...
Bongos being played Bongos are a percussion instrument. ...
Martin Trenaman is a British comedy writer and actor, who has contributed to many modern comedy series. ...
Eldon as evil hypnotist in Big Train Kevin Eldon ( b. ...
The gate for the street fair portion of the festival on the Royal Mile, in August 2007. ...
John Moloney is a British stand up comedian, most famous for his performances on the BBCs The Stand Up Show He was recently nominated for Channel 4s One Hundred Greatest Stand-ups. The following is from the website: One of the UKs most experienced stand ups, John...
Kraftwerk (pronounced , German for power plant or power station) is an influential electronic-music band from Düsseldorf, Germany. ...
is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
In February 2007, Bill appeared on two occasions with the BBC Concert Orchestra and Anne Dudley in a show entitled Cosmic Shindig. Performed in The Colosseum in Watford on 24 February and in the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 26 February, the show contained orchestrally accompanied versions of many of Bill's previously performed songs, an exploration of the instruments of the orchestra and a number of new pieces of music. The Queen Elizabeth Hall performance was aired on BBC Radio 3 on 16 March 2007 as a part of Comic Relief 2007. The BBC Concert Orchestra is based in London and is one of the British Broadcasting Corporations five orchestras. ...
Anne Dudley (born 7-May-1956) is an orchestral composer and pop musician and was the BBC Concert Orchestras Composer in Association between January 2002 and January 2005. ...
is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Queen Elizabeth Hall (QEH) is a music venue on the South Bank in London, which hosts daily classical, jazz, and avant-garde music and dance performances. ...
is the 57th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Queen Elizabeth Hall (QEH) is a music venue on the South Bank in London, which hosts daily classical, jazz, and avant-garde music and dance performances. ...
BBC Radio 3 is a radio station operated by the BBC within the United Kingdom. ...
is the 75th day of the year (76th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ...
For the origin of the term, see comic relief. ...
As a result of several fan petitions encouraging him to do so, Bill had planned to put himself forward as Britain's Eurovision entry in 2008, but failed to do so.[9] The term Eurovision has several meanings: technically, the Eurovision Network created by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). ...
Future Bill is currently slated to commence a Tinselworm tour of Australia and New Zealand at the end of August 2008, covering 9 cities. Early in 2007, a petition was started to express fans' wishes to see him cast as a dwarf in the 2010 film The Hobbit, after his stand-up routine mentioned auditioning for Gimli in The Lord of the Rings. The petition reached its goal in the early days of January, and was sent to the producers.[10]. Gimli is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkiens Middle-earth legendarium, featured in The Lord of the Rings. ...
The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy poster (2003) The Lord of the Rings film trilogy comprises three live action fantasy epic films; The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) and The Lord of the...
Selected works
Tours - Bill Bailey's Cosmic Jam (1995)
- Bewilderness' (2000–2002)
- Part Troll (2003–2004)
- Steampunk (August 2006)
- Tinselworm (November 2007)
TV/Film Is It Bill Bailey? is a stand up/sketch comedy series written by and starring Bill Bailey. ...
For the song by the Smashing Pumpkins, see Pisces Iscariot. ...
Have I Got News for You is a British television panel show produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC. It is based loosely on the BBC Radio 4 show The News Quiz, and has been running since 1990. ...
Saving Grace is a 2000 comedy/crime film, starring Brenda Blethyn, Craig Ferguson and Martin Clunes. ...
Black Books is a British sitcom broadcast on Channel 4 starring Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey and Tamsin Greig. ...
Jonathan Creek is a British mystery television series produced by the BBC and written by David Renwick. ...
Wild West was a situation comedy beginning in October 2002 and ran until 2004 (12 episodes) starring Dawn French and Catherine Tate. ...
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For other uses, see QI (disambiguation). ...
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy film based on the book of the same name by Douglas Adams. ...
The Libertine is a movie that was released in the United Kingdom on November 25, 2005, and on March 10, 2006 in the United States. ...
Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was the King of England, Scotland, and Ireland. ...
This article is about the current format of the BBC television programme. ...
Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car is a recurring segment on the BBC Two motoring programme Top Gear. ...
Not to be confused with Hot Fuss. ...
Run, Fat Boy, Run is a romantic comedy directed by Friends star David Schwimmer, written by Michael Ian Black and Simon Pegg, and starring Pegg, Dylan Moran, Thandie Newton and Hank Azaria, it was released on 7 September 2007. ...
Skins is a BAFTA-winning British comedic teen drama from Company Pictures which premièred on E4 on January 25, 2007. ...
Love Soup is the title of a comedy drama on the BBC which was first broadcast in September 2005. ...
DVDs - Bewilderness (2001)
- Part Troll (2004)
- Cosmic Jam (2005)
- Cosmic Jam (special two part with bonus disc featuring Bewilderness as performed in Swansea, 2005)
- The Classic Collection (This is the Bill Bailey boxset featuring Bewilderness, Part Troll And Cosmic Jam, 2006)
- Tinselworm (due for 2008 release, Tinselworm 29th November 2007 Wembley Arena)
CDs - Bewilderness in New York (2002)
- The Ultimate Collection... Ever! (2003)
- Part Troll (2004)
- Cosmic Jam (2006)
- Das Hokey Kokey (2006) - Single
- Tinselworm (2007) - Live & Direct recordings of most dates of the 'Tinselworm' tour
Books - The Many Moods of Bill Bailey (A song book which collects 9 of Bill's most popular songs from the period of 1995-2005. Including instructions from Bill himself (which ventures into how they were created) and pictures) (2007)
References screenonline is a website devoted to the history of British film and television, and to social history as revealed by film and television. ...
Desert Island Discs is a long-running BBC Radio 4 programme. ...
For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ...
2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Era (or Anno Domini), in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. ...
is the 159th day of the year (160th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
King Edwards School (KES), Bath in South-West England is a Private School providing education for pupils aged 3 - 18. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ...
is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
BBC Two (or BBC2 as it was formerly styled) was the second UK television station to be aired by the BBC. History The channel was scheduled to begin at 7:20pm on April 20, 1964 and show an evening of light entertainment, starting with the comedy show The Alberts and...
Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ...
is the 27th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ...
is the 2nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ...
is the 2nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ...
is the 2nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ...
is the 202nd day of the year (203rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ...
is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The British Film Institute (BFI) is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to encourage the development of the arts of film, television and the moving image throughout the United Kingdom, to promote their use as a record of contemporary life and manners, to promote education about film, television and...
screenonline is a website devoted to the history of British film and television, and to social history as revealed by film and television. ...
Black Books is a British sitcom broadcast on Channel 4 starring Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey and Tamsin Greig. ...
Black Books is a British television sitcom, broadcast on Channel 4 and written by Dylan Moran, Graham Linehan, Arthur Mathews, Kevin Cecil and Andy Riley. ...
Manny Bianco is a fictional bookseller and a central character in the British comedy sitcom Black Books, portrayed by Bill Bailey. ...
Fran Katzenjammer (Tamsin Greig) Enid Francesca Fran Katzenjammer is a character in the sitcom Black Books played by Tamsin Greig. ...
Dylan Moran (born November 3, 1971) is a BAFTA and Perrier Award-winning Irish comedian, actor and writer. ...
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