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Brian Conley (born 1961 in Paddington, London) is an English comedian, television presenter, singer and actor. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Let Me Entertain You is a daytime variety show made by Lion Television for BBC Two that began on August 21, 2006. ...
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Biography
Brian Paul Conley was born and raised in West London and studied Performing Arts at The Barbara Speake Stage School. He started his career as a holiday camp entertainer, working as a Pontin's Bluecoat at the age of 16. After Pontin's, he joined successful comedy showband called Tomfoolery. In 1982, he appeared on the British version of the gameshow Make Me Laugh, presented by Bernie Winters. Pontins is a British holiday company founded in 1946 by Fred Pontin. ...
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After "Tomfoolery", Conley became a warm up man for the likes of Terry Wogan, Noel Edmonds and Kenny Everett. Afterwards, he started appearing in front of the cameras with regular appearances in Five Alive and Live from the Palladium. He was soon snapped up by ITV and given his own starring vehicle to demonstrate his unique and versatile talents, this was Brian Conley: This Way Up which was followed by The Brian Conley Show, both very successful sketch shows. He was then offered the lead roll in the sitcom Time after Time which was awarded The British Comedy Award for Best ITV Sitcom. He then went on to play the hugely popular Doug 'Dynamo' Digby, starring opposite Amanda Holden, Nigel Planer and Noddy Holder in The Grimleys. He was also given two "An Audience With..." shows. Sir Michael Terence Wogan, KBE DL (born August 3, 1938, in Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland), more commonly known as Terry Wogan, is a radio and television broadcaster who has worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in the United Kingdom (UK) for most of his career. ...
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The Brian Conley Show was a comedy variety show starring Brian Conley, consisting of comedy sketches, and music. ...
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Around 2000, Conley was given a new show for ITV consisting of chat and music called, once again, The Brian Conley Show. The show lasted for three series. The show's guests included some major Hollywood names, like Kathleen Turner, Leslie Nielsen and James Belushi. The Brian Conley Show was a comedy chat show presented by Brian Conley with celebrity guests and music. ...
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He also worked at the BBC for a couple of shows. His first being "Got Your Number", a game show part of a long series of National Lottery game shows. Conley would later return to the BBC to present Let Me Entertain You in 2006. The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion (US$7. ...
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He reached a nadir in 2003 with the show Judgement Day which was promptly dropped after just two episodes having given ITV1 its lowest ever recorded audience share. Following this, he concentrated more on stage work, including the parts Buttons in Cinderella and Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Judgement Day was a short-lived gameshow that broadcast on ITV1, and presented by comedian and entertainer Brian Conley. ...
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In 2006, Brian Conley returned to television, hosting a daytime variety show called Let Me Entertain You, a Lion TV production for BBC Two. On December 1 of the same year, he appeared as a guest presenter on The New Paul O'Grady Show on Channel 4, where Larry The Loafer made an appearance in the beginning, and Brian referred himself to "Dangerous Brian" as he was about to enter the "Tank of Doom" as part of a Bushtucker Trial. Let Me Entertain You is a daytime variety show made by Lion Television for BBC Two that began on August 21, 2006. ...
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Later in 2007, Brian is to present a second series of Let Me Entertain You on BBC Two, and is soon to be seen presenting a new gameshow for BBC One called Dirty Rotten Cheater. Twenty shows were recorded in May at the Maidstone Studios in Kent. There is also unconfirmed news of him appearing in "the Jennifer Saunders new comedy drama", possibly referring to her "sitcom", Jam and Jerusalem. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
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He now has a safe home at the BBC.
Brian will be performing as Buttons in the 2007 pantomime 'Cinderella' at Wycombe Swan Theatre from Dec.
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The Brian Conley Show was a comedy variety show starring Brian Conley, consisting of comedy sketches, and music. ...
The Brian Conley Show was a comedy variety show starring Brian Conley, consisting of comedy sketches, and music. ...
The Brian Conley Show was a comedy variety show starring Brian Conley, consisting of comedy sketches, and music. ...
CD cover from The Grimleys soundtrack The Grimleys was a nostalgic comedy-drama set in Dudley, West Midlands, England in the mid-1970s. ...
The Brian Conley Show was a comedy chat show presented by Brian Conley with celebrity guests and music. ...
Judgement Day was a short-lived gameshow that broadcast on ITV1, and presented by comedian and entertainer Brian Conley. ...
Let Me Entertain You is a daytime variety show made by Lion Television for BBC Two that began on August 21, 2006. ...
The Paul OGrady Show is a British comedy chat show on Channel 4, formerly aired on ITV1. ...
Dirty Rotten Cheater was a short lived game show that appeared on PAX in 2003. ...
Music and Stage Work Conley is also known for his singing voice and has released multiple albums, including "Songs From The Shows", "Stage to Stage" and "Let The Good Times Roll". After he left television, he went on to stage work and appeared as Buttons in Cinderella. He was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for his performance as Al Jolson in Jolson The Musical (1995), and also appeared in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as Caractacus Potts. Gustave Dorés illustration for Cendrillon For other uses, see Cinderella (disambiguation). ...
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Films He has appeared on the silver screen in "Circus", with John Hannah and Eddie Izzard, and "Unconditional Love" with Kathy Bates. In 2002, Conley made a cameo in Kurt Wimmer's 2002 Science Fiction film Equilibrium Circus is a 2000 British crime thriller movie directed by Rob Walker and written by David Logan. ...
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Trivia - His most popular catchphrase was "It's A Puppet" used for a Brian Conley show character Nick Frisbee, with "old mate buddy pal" Larry The Loafer, a parody of Gordon the Gopher
- Some of Brian's material have been repeated by other acts in the past. One example was Joe Pasquale's act on the 2005 Royal Variety Performance, where a trick involved ripping a piece of paper into pieces, putting the pieces into his mouth, removing the final piece to see the paper back together, followed my spitting out the rest of the paper by talking. This was performed by Brian on The Brian Conley Show, and Alive and Dangerous. One joke from one of Brian's live shows, "Alive and Dangerous", was repeated by a 13-year-old act on BBC Two's Let Me Entertain You which Brian hosts. The boy was voted off by the audience.
- He suffered drinking problems and panic attacks after the death of his father who he was very close to.
- He hosted unaired pilots of gameshows Play Your Cards Right (Bruce Forsyth) and Deal or No Deal (Noel Edmonds).
- Performed It Only Takes a Minute by Take That for a challenge on Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway as part of a band led by Dec.
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Let Me Entertain You is a daytime variety show made by Lion Television for BBC Two that began on August 21, 2006. ...
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External links - Brian Conley Official Site
- BBC Comedy Guide to Brian Conley: This Way Up
- BBC Comedy Guide to The Brian Conley Show
- Ace of Base performing on the original Brian Conley Show
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