Jim Sweeney (left) and comedy partner Steve Steen (right)
Jim Sweeney is a British comedian, writer and actor. He is a member of The Comedy Store's Comedy Store Players team, which regularly performs improvised comedy both within the club and around the world. He has also written several plays and appeared in numerous television programmes. He was one member of the British alternative comedy revolution in the 1970/80s. Image File history File links Sweeneyjim. ... Image File history File links Sweeneyjim. ... The Comedy Store is a comedy club located in Soho, London, England that was opened in 1979 by Peter Rosengard. ... The Comedy Store Players is a goup of improvising comedy performers known for their performances at The Comedy Store in London. ... Alternative comedy is a style of comedy that originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s and 1980s which would eventually go on to become mainstream in the 1990s and up to the present day. ...
Sweeney was a regular on the British version of Whose Line Is It Anyway? and also appeared in Blackadder. Additionally, he has had a variety of radio comedy roles, including the improvised faux drama show, The Masterson Inheritance. Whose Line Is It Anyway?, sometimes called Whose Line? for short, is an improvised and largely unscripted comedy pseudo-game show. ... Blackadder is the generic name which embraces an acclaimed series of British sitcoms, made by the BBC, and several one-off episodes, many for charity Comic Relief. ... The Masterson Inheritance was a improvisational comedy series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from 1993 to 1995. ...
Since 1985, Sweeney has suffered from Multiple sclerosis, something which from early 2005 has caused him to use a wheelchair. However, he continues to perform, write and act. He wrote about this experiences of MS in My MS and Me, a play he performed for BBCRadio 4's Friday Play after a successful Edinburgh Festival run. Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national public service broadcaster of the United Kingdom. ... The Edinburgh Festival is a collection of various festivals in August of each year in Edinburgh, Scotland. ...
JimSweeney (born Michael James Dominic Sweeney in Bournemouth, Hampshire, England, February 7 1955) is an English actor and comedian, best known for his improvisation partnership with Steve Steen.
Sweeney spent the 1970s in theatre productions, creating and touring shows with Steen, who was a friend from school.
Sweeney lives in Wimbledon with his girlfriend and two daughters.
JimSweeney strips away all of the fluff and tells us what we need to be able to communicate at the uncontrolled fields that many of us fly from.
JimSweeney checks in with a report on the ASTM meetings in Sebring, Florida as well as the a report on the very first U.S. Sport Aviation Expo held at the same location.
JimSweeney is the president of the North American Powered Parachute Federation Board of Directors and sits on the Board of Directors for the United States Ultralight Association.
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