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Doon Mackichan (born 1962, Fife) is a Scottish comedian. She is probably best known as one of the writers and stars of the Channel 4 comedy series Smack the Pony; prior to this she appeared in Chris Morris's BBC news spoof series The Day Today—where she played a number of roles including business news reporter Collatallie Sisters—and in Morris's controversial Channel 4 series Brass Eye. She also regularly appeared in Knowing Me, Knowing You... with Alan Partridge. Image File history File links Doon_mackichan. ...
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1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ...
Fife (Fìobh in Gaelic) is a council area of Scotland, situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with landward boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire. ...
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A comedian, or comic, is an entertainer who amuses an audience by making them laugh. ...
Channel 4 is a public-service television broadcaster in the United Kingdom (see British television). ...
Smack the Pony was a Channel 4 sketch comedy show that ran from 1999 until 2003. ...
Chris Morris in Brass Eye Chris Morris (born September 5, 1965 in Bristol, England) is an English comedy writer, satirist and radio DJ. Morris grew up in Cambridgeshire; both his parents were doctors. ...
The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of £4 billion. ...
The Day Today is a surreal British parody of television current affairs programmes. ...
Channel 4 is a public-service television broadcaster in the United Kingdom (see British television). ...
Brass Eye is a UK television series of satirical spoof documentaries which aired on Channel 4 in 1997 and was re-run in 2001. ...
Knowing Me, Knowing You. ...
She was a contestant in the 2003 BBC charity singing contest, Comic Relief Does Fame Academy, in which she came fourth. She also had a part in the 1998 movie, The Borrowers, in which she played the part of Victoria Lender, and the 1995 comedy Glam Metal Detectives. 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of £4 billion. ...
Fame Academy is the name of televised competition to search for and educate musical talents. ...
1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
The Borrowers is a novel by Mary Norton about tiny people who borrow things from normal humans and keep their existence unknown. ...
1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Glam Metal Detectives was a comedy show combining both sketch and sitcom elements, produced by the BBC in 1995. ...
She also appeared in the second series of the BBC comedy Bedtime, and also teamed up with her former Smack the Pony co-stars in the film Gladiatress.
More recently, she has narrated several TV series, including The Honey Trap and Bank of Mum and Dad. She also portrayed Cherie Blair in the Channel 4 satirical drama, A Very Social Secretary. Cherie Blair Cherie Blair (born 23 September 1954 in Bury, England), known professionally as Cherie Booth QC, is a prominent barrister. ...
In addition to her TV comedy appearences, she has made a contribution to radio comedy with her own BBC show, Doon Your Way. See TV (disambiguation) for other uses and Television (band) for the rock band European networks National In much of Europe television broadcasting has historically been state dominated, rather than commercially organised, although commercial stations have grown in number recently. ...
Comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humour with an intent to provoke laughter in general). ...
Recently revealed on an episode of the BBC quiz show QI - Doon Mackichan swam the English Channel in 1998. The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of £4 billion. ...
QI, standing for Quite Interesting and a pun on IQ, is a comedy panel game television show hosted by Stephen Fry and shown on BBC Two and BBC Four. ...
Satellite view of the English Channel The English Channel (French: La Manche (IPA: ), the sleeve) is the part of the Atlantic Ocean that separates the island of Great Britain from northern France and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. ...
Credits
Confusingly, she has been credited variously as: Doon MacHichan, Doon MacKichan, Doon Machichan, Doon Mackihan and Doon McKichan, in addition to the correct spelling.
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