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Encyclopedia > Rebecca Front

Rebecca Front (born June 28, 1965) is a British comedian and actress. She has starred in The Day Today and Knowing Me, Knowing You and has been on The News Quiz, Have I Got News For You, If I Ruled The World and Nighty Night (Some entries on this page have been duplicated on August 1. ... 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... 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. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... The Day Today was a surreal British parody of television current affairs programmes. ... Knowing Me, Knowing You is a popular song by the group Abba. ... The News Quiz is a topical comedy quiz broadcast on British radio BBC Radio 4. ... Have I Got News For You (sometimes abbreviated to HIGNFY) is a long-running UK television panel game, on the subject of news, politics and current affairs. ... If I Ruled the World is a song, originally from the West End musical, Pickwick, based on Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers. ... Nighty Night is a six-part BBC Television comedy/drama with a black edge to its humour; shown on BBC THREE and later BBC TWO from January 2004. ...


Early Career

Rebecca was involved in comedy while at Oxford University. She toured with the Oxford Theatre Group in 1984, taking part in the revue "Stop the Weak"; the tour played in Oxford itself, the Gate Theatre Notting Hill (where it was seen one evening by Mick Jagger, Julie Walters and David Bowie), Edinburgh, Salisury and Romsey. The Oxford Revue in the early 1980s was the nursery for a number of comedians who went on to achieve some success: the cast of "Stop the Weak" included Patrick Marber who was to later work with Rebecca in The Day Today, while David Schneider, also in The Day Today was part of the revue company in 1985, while the director (of The Day Today), Armando Ianucci was part of the 1986 Oxford Revue. The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... The Gate Theatre, in Dublin, was founded in 1928 by Hilton Edwards and Micheál MacLiammoir, initially using the Abbey Theatres Peacock studio theatre space to stage important works by European and American dramatists. ... For the movie of the same name, see Notting_Hill_(movie) For Notting Hill in Melbourne, Australia, see Notting Hill Notting Hill is a district of London located to the west of the centre and close to the north-western corner of Hyde Park. ... Sir Mick Jagger Sir Michael Philip Mick Jagger (born July 26, 1943, in Dartford, Kent) is a British rock musician, actor, writer, composer, record and film producer and businessman. ... Julie Walters (born February 22, 1950) is a British actress, mainly associated with comedy and character roles. ... David Bowie David Robert Jones (born January 8, 1947), better known as David Bowie, is a British rock and roll musician, actor, and artist who has had a profound influence on rock and roll from the 1960s to the present. ... Patrick Marber is a British actor and writer associated with the kind of playwriting referred to as in-yer-face theatre. ... The Day Today was a surreal British parody of television current affairs programmes. ... David Schneider (born May 22, 1963) is a British actor and comedian. ... The Day Today was a surreal British parody of television current affairs programmes. ... The Day Today was a surreal British parody of television current affairs programmes. ... Armando Iannucci (born 1964) is a Scottish comedian, radio producer. ...


In 1985, Rebecca teamed up with Sioned Wiliam and Joan Magnusson (sp?) to take the show "The Bobo Girls go BOO" to Edinburgh.


In 2003, she was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy. 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... In December 2003 The Observer newspaper printed its list of the 50 people it considered funniest and/or most influential in British comedy. ...


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Pray that Rebecca would rejoice in the Lord always, that with prayer and petition, mixed with thanksgiving, that she (and we) would lift up our prayers and concerns to God.
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