Sue Perkins 2006 Tour Photo.

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Mel and Sue

Perkins is best known for her collaborations (especially presenting comedy items) with Mel Giedroyc. As Mel and Sue the duo were short-listed for the Daily Express Best Newcomers Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 1993. After a few years writing for French & Saunders they hosted a lunchtime show on Channel 4 called Light Lunch, and an early evening version, Late Lunch. The two met whilst students at Cambridge, where Perkins was a student at New Hall, and were both members of the famous comedy club Footlights. Comedy is the use of humor in the form of theater, where it simply referred to a play with a happy ending, in contrast to a tragedy. ... Mel Giedroyc (born June 5, 1968 in Epsom, London) is a British television presenter, actress, and writer. ... Mel (left) and Sue Mel and Sue are a comedy duo, consisting of Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins. ... There is no one Edinburgh Festival but those using the term are usually referring to the collection of various festivals in August and early September of each year in Edinburgh, Scotland. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was 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). ... French & Saunders is a British sketch comedy television show written by and starring by Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, and also the name by which the performers are known on the rare occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act. ... Channel 4 is a public service television broadcaster in the United Kingdom (see British television). ... Light Lunch Promotional Photo Light Lunch was a Channel 4 lunch-time comedy chatshow broadcast between March 1997 and February 1998. ... Light Lunch Promotional Photo Light Lunch was a Channel 4 lunch-time comedy chatshow broadcast between March 1997 and February 1998. ... The University of Cambridge (often called Cambridge University), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Full name New Hall Motto - Named after - Previous names - Established 1954 Sister College St Annes College President Anne Lonsdale Location Huntingdon Road Undergraduates 377 Graduates 74 Homepage Boatclub New Hall is a womens college in the University of Cambridge. ... Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club, commonly referred to simply as the Footlights, is an amateur theatrical club in Cambridge, England, run by the students of Cambridge University. ...

Sue Perkins publicity photo 1999.

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Television

Perkins has also been a presenter on Channel 4's RI:SE and appeared in Celebrity Big Brother during 2002 in aid of a number of charities. Over the years she has made numerous appearances on BBC TV shows Have I Got News For You, Room 101, Celebrity Weakest Link, Question Time and Newsnight; she has often joked that the BBC pay her a regular wage for "blabbering on random shows". RI:SE was a breakfast television show on Channel 4 in the UK. It was scheduled after the ratings failure of The Big Breakfast. ... Big Brother is a TV reality show shown on Channel 4 in which a number of contestants live in an isolated house trying to avoid being evicted by the public with the aim of winning a large cash prize at the end of the run. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC, sometimes also known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, founded in 1922. ... Have I Got News for You (sometimes abbreviated to HIGNFY) is a long-running UK television topical panel game. ... Room 101 comes from the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. ... The Weakest Link (or, in the U.S., simply Weakest Link) is a television game show which first appeared in the United Kingdom on BBC Two in 2000. ... Question Time is a section of proceedings in the Parliaments of the United Kingdom and several other countries which use the Westminster system, including Australia and New Zealand, and in Canada, where it is called Question Period. ... Newsnight is a British daily news analysis, current affairs and politics programme broadcast between 22. ...

She apeared on the 9/10 episode of BBC4'S 2006 language quiz show Never Mind the Full Stops. Never Mind the Full Stops is a British panel-based game show centred around the English language, its idiosyncracies, and its misuse. ...

She is currently a team captain on ITV's Win, Lose or Draw Late. ITVs Logo 2006—Present Independent Television (ITV) is the name given to the original network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up to provide competition to the BBC. In England, Wales and southern Scotland, the channel has been rebranded to ITV1 by ITV plc, the owners of the broadcasting...

Radio

Perkins is also a panel member of Radio 4's The News Quiz and makes regular appearances on BBC Radio 2's It's Been a Bad Week. She has occasionally appeared as a panellist on another popular Radio 4 show, Just a Minute. The News Quiz is a topical comedy quiz broadcast on British radio BBC Radio 4. ... BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBCs national radio stations and is the most popular station in the UK. It broadcasts throughout the UK on FM radio between 88 and 91 MHz from its studios in Western House, adjacent to Broadcasting House in central London. ... It’s Been a Bad Week is a British radio comedy on BBC Radio 2, that started in February 11th 1999. ... Just a Minute is a BBC Radio 4 radio comedy panel game and was first broadcast on the BBC on December 22, 1967. ...

She is currently chair of BBC Radio 4's The 99p Challenge. BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... The 99p Challenge is a spoof panel game on BBC Radio 4. ...

Personal Life

Perkins was born in East Dulwich in London. She has been a reluctantly open lesbian since 2002, when ex-girlfriend Rhona Cameron outed her during the latter's stint on ITV's I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here . Despite being homosexual she lists Jon Snow as one of her weaknesses. East Dulwich is an area in the London Borough of Southwark. ... London is the capital city of England and of the United Kingdom, and is the most populous city in the European Union. ... A lesbian is a female who is aesthetically, sexually, or romantically attracted to other females. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Rhona Cameron (born September 27, 1965 in Musselburgh) is a Scottish comedienne, best known as a participant in the first series of Im a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!. She also presented the ITV game show Russian Roulette and the Channel 4 show Gay Time TV and co... ITVs Logo 2006—Present Independent Television (ITV) is the name given to the original network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up to provide competition to the BBC. In England, Wales and southern Scotland, the channel has been rebranded to ITV1 by ITV plc, the owners of the broadcasting... Im a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! is a reality television show in which minor celebrities live in jungle conditions with few creature comforts. ... Jon Snow (born September 28, 1947 in Ardingly, Sussex) is a British television newscaster on Channel 4 News, produced by ITN. He is frequently referred to on the street as The Snowman His father was an Anglican clergyman and schoolteacher, and he was brought up at Ardingly College, a minor...

External links

• Sue Perkins at the Internet Movie Database