McGrath presenting More Own Goals & Gaffs DVD.

Rory McGrath (born March 27, 1956) is an English comedian. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... is the 86th day of the year (87th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

He studied at Redruth Grammar School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge where he became a member of the Cambridge Footlights. He is best known for his appearances as a panel member on the BBC comedy sports quiz They Think It's All Over. He was also a cast member of the British Channel 4 comedy series Who Dares Wins and Chelmsford 123. He was presenter of the series Rory's Commercial Breakdown, where humorous adverts were shown from different countries. Map sources for Redruth at grid reference SW700420 Redruth (Cornish: Rysrudh) is a town in the south-west of Cornwall, Britain. ... of the Emmanuel College College name Emmanuel College Named after Jesus Christ (Emmanuel) Established 1584 Location St Andrews Street Admittance Men and women Master The Lord Wilson of Dinton Undergraduates 500 Graduates 100 Sister college Exeter College, Oxford College Website Boat Club Wesite Emmanuel front court and the Wren... The ADC Theatre is the home of the Footlights. ... They Think Its All Over (1995-2006) is the name of a British satirical game show with a sporting theme produced by TalkbackTHAMES and shown on BBC One. ... Who Dares Wins was an Aus television daring gameshow. ... Chelmsford 123 was a situation comedy produced for British Channel 4 television by Hat Trick Productions. ...

He was cofounder, with Denise O'Donoghue and Jimmy Mulville, of the independent British TV production company Hat Trick Productions. However he left the company in 1992.^[1] Denise ODonoghue (born April 13, 1955 in Wembley) is cofounder, with Jimmy Mulville, of the independent British TV production company Hat Trick Productions. ... James Thomas Mulville (born January 5, 1955) is a British comedian, comedy writer, producer and television presenter. ... “TV” redirects here. ... Hat Trick Productions is a British independent television production company. ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ...

He has written jokes for many comedians including Frankie Howerd. One of his early writing projects was Black Cinderella Two Goes East with Clive Anderson for BBC Radio 4 in 1978. Frankie Howerd Frankie Howerd OBE (born Francis Alex Howard in York, England, 6 March 1917 - not 1922 as he claimed; died in London, 19 April 1992) was a distinctive English comedian and comic actor. ... Black Cinderella Two Goes East (sometimes referred to as Black Cinderella II Goes East) was a radio pantomime broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 25 December 1978. ... Clive Anderson (born 10 December 1952) is a former practising barrister turned comedy writer and television presenter in the United Kingdom. ... BBC Radio 4 is a UK domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ...

McGrath supports Arsenal. Arsenal Football Club (also known as Arsenal, The Arsenal or The Gunners) are an English professional football club based in Holloway, north London. ...

His appearance on the quiz show QI made him one of the highest-scoring contestants, particularly due to his seemingly endless knowledge of cormorants and the Latin names of birds, although this knowledge left him open to severe mocking from the other guests. (Stephen Fry jokingly informed him that the show "was not an autistic quiz".) Qi, also commonly spelled chi (in Wade-Giles romanization) or ki (in romanized Japanese), is a fundamental concept of traditional Chinese culture. ... For other uses, see Cormorant (disambiguation). ... Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, writer, actor, novelist, filmmaker and television personality. ...

Rory was one of the Three Men in a Boat in the 2005 BBC reinterpretation of the travelogue by Jerome K. Jerome along with fellow rowers Griff Rhys Jones and Dara O'Briain. Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is 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. ... Travel literature is literature which records the people, events, sights and feelings of an author who is touring a foreign place for the pleasure of travel. ... Jerome K. Jerome Jerome Klapka Jerome (May 2, 1859–June 14, 1927) was an English author, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat. ... Griff Rhys Jones (born 16 November 1953) is a British comedian, writer and actor. ... Dara Ó Briain [da-ra oh breen] is an Irish comedian and television presenter. ...

Rory has written many songs over the years and intends on recording an album in the near future. It is 40 years since the psychedelic summer of ‘67 (and love), so he decided to write a tribute song, a nostalgic ditty to remind us of those strange days. "Where have all the Hippies Gone?"^[2]. Lyrics and music Rory McGrath

References

1. ^ Rory McGrath punched on TV. BBC. Retrieved on April 14, 2007.
2. ^ Rory McGrath - Where Have All The Hippies Gone

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External links

• Rory McGrath at the Internet Movie Database