Peter Richardson born 15 October 1951 in Devon, Britain, is a British actor, comedian, director, and writer. He is best known for The Comic Strip Presents... television series. October 15 is the 288th day of the year (289th in Leap years). ... 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Devon is a county in South West England, bordering on Cornwall to the west, Dorset and Somerset to the east. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... A comedian (also comedienne, female) is a person who attempts to make people laugh through a variety of methods, normally through joke telling, or a stream of funny banter. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... This article is about the British comedy group; for the published art form, see comic strip. ...

He started performing at London's Comedy Store in 1979, in a double act with Nigel Planer called "The Outer Limits". Richardson soon set up his own comedy club called The Comic Strip, taking with him a core group from The Comedy Store. At this point, various television companies were taking note of the rapidly growing "alternative comedy" scene, and Richardson was approached by Jeremy Isaacs to make a series of comedy films for Channel 4. The Comedy Store is a comedy club located in Soho, London, England that was opened in 1979 by Peter Rosengard. ... 1979 is a common year starting on Monday. ... Nigel Planer (born February 22, 1955) is a British actor and comedian. ... This article is about the British comedy group; for the published art form, see comic strip. ... Alternative comedy is a British comedy scene in the late 1970s and 1980s which would eventually go on to become mainstream in the 1990s and up to the present day. ... Sir Jeremy Isaacs (b. ... Channel 4 is a television broadcaster in the United Kingdom (see British television). ...

The Comic Strip Presents... ran from 1982 to 1988 on Channel 4, and then continued from 1990 to 1993 on the BBC. Richardson wrote more than half of the shows together with Pete Richens, and he also directed most of the BBC series. 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was formed in 1927 by means of a royal charter. ...

Richardson was due to be the fourth member of The Young Ones but when he fell out with the director his part was played by an actor. Arguably this cost Richardson greater success in his own right as a performer. The Young Ones; Left to right: Jerzei Balowski (Alexei Sayle), Neil (Nigel Planer), Rick (Rik Mayall), Mike (Christopher Ryan) & Vyvyan (Adrian Edmondson) The Young Ones was a British sitcom about four male students sharing a house. ...

He also wrote (again with Richens) and directed the film The Pope Must Die, which starred Comic Strip regulars Robbie Coltrane and Adrian Edmondson. The Pope Must Die (U.S. alternate title: The Pope Must Diet ) is a 1991 comedy movie starring Robbie Coltrane, Adrian Edmondson, Annette Crosbie, Alex Rocco and Peter Richardson. ... Robbie Coltrane as Rubeus Hagrid Robbie Coltrane (birth name Robert MacMillan, some sources say Anthony MacMillan) (born March 30, 1950) is a Scottish actor. ... Adrian Edmondson (sometimes credited as Ade Edmondson, born 24 January 1957 in Bradford, Yorkshire, Britain) is a British actor, comedian, director, and writer who gained fame as Vyvyan in The Young Ones in the early 1980s. ...

Apart from the Comic Strip, Richardson's best known work is the sitcom Stella Street, which he directs, and co-writes with the impressionists John Sessions and Phil Cornwell. A Stella Street movie was released in 2004. John Sessions (born January 11, 1953 in Largs, Ayrshire) is a Scottish actor best known for his comedy work in improvisation shows like Whose Line Is It Anyway?. A gifted impressionist, he worked on Spitting Image and later the surreal celeb soap opera Stella Street. ...

External links

• Peter Richardson at the Internet Movie Database