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Chris Neill (born 1968) is a British comedian, producer, and writer who features regularly on BBC Radio 4 [1] and BBC Radio Scotland. Performing also as a stand-up comedian on the UK circuit, he has presented five solo shows on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe since 2002.
Chris Neill began his career producing comedy and entertainment shows for BBC Radio between 1993 and 2000. Since then, he has continued to make shows for BBC radio networks as a freelancer. His productions include The Hudson and Pepperdine Show , Just A Minute , The News Huddlines , Week Ending , Lee and Herring, Rainer Hersch's 20th Century Retrospective, Kit and the Widow - Sanitised for the Wireless, It's That Jo Caulfield Again, Quote... Unquote , Miranda Hart's House Party, Cambridge Footlights: A Retrospective, ... by Woody Allen, Clement Doesn't Live Here Anymore , Why the Big Pause?Talk of New York, and Sean Lock's 15 Storeys High .
In 2000, Neill became a panelist on shows such as Just a Minute , The Motion Show, and Quote... Unquote . In Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting , written by and featuring the comedian, he had a regular role as Chris, the live-in builder with a fear of completing any job. He also had cameo roles in Sean Lock's 15 Storeys High and The Hudson and Pepperdine Show , as well as writing and presenting a Radio 4 documentary about the legendary Round the Horne star, Betty Marsden. He has regularly contributed to the Sunday-morning news magazine programme, Broadcasting House , as well as presenting a weekly feature on MacAulay & Co on BBC Radio Scotland. In 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2009, he co-hosted elements of MacAulay & Co along with Fred MacAulay and Sue Perkins as it was broadcast from the Spiegel Tent every morning during two weeks of the Edinburgh Festival. Radio 4 and 4 extra "Woof" excellent autobiographical comedy Also features Martin Hyder, Alison Steadman and Isy Suttie.
Neill made his début as a stand-up comedian at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2002 with his show Does it With Strangers at the Pleasance, and he returned to the Edinburgh Fringe in 2004 with The BBC, Andrew Gilligan, and Me and in 2005 with Middle Class Misery — the Board Game, both also at the Pleasance, in 2006 with his show Everybody Hates Chris (Neill) at the Underbelly and in 2008 with Chris Neill's Got a Bun in the Oven at the Assembly Rooms. He was a core performer in Robin Ince's Book Club, both in London and on national tour, and has also worked as a television warm-up artist.
Neill also performs as a radio actor and as a voice-over artist. In 2006, he played Sir James Tyrrell in the Doctor Who audio drama The Kingmaker . He has recorded the voice of Lord Cutler Beckett for the Disney video game, Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned and voiced the part of Owl in all 52 episodes of the animation Poppy Cat for Nick Jr. He has also lent his voice to the English dub of a French animated series called Lilybuds made for Zodiak Kids voicing Zinnia's jerboa Spearmint.
Sean Lock was an English comedian and actor. He began his comedy career as a stand-up comedian and in 2000 he won the British Comedy Award, in the category of Best Live Comic, and was nominated for the Perrier Comedy Award. He was a team captain on the Channel 4 comedy panel show 8 Out of 10 Cats from 2005 to 2015, and on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown from 2012 until his death in 2021.
15 Storeys High is a British sitcom, set in a tower block in south London. Created and co-written by Sean Lock, it originated as two radio series broadcast in 1998–2000, transferring to television in 2002–2004. The television series starred Sean Lock and Benedict Wong.
Robin Ince is an English comedian, actor and writer, known for presenting the BBC radio show The Infinite Monkey Cage with physicist Brian Cox, creating Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People, co-creating The Cosmic Shambles Network, and his stand-up comedy career.
Frederick MacAulay is a Scottish comedian. For 18 years, until March 2015, he presented a daily BBC Scotland radio programme MacAulay and Co. He has appeared on numerous TV shows.
Lucy Donna Porter is an English actress, writer, presenter and comedian. She has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Brighton Festival and many clubs around Britain. She is also a regular voice on BBC Radio 4 in various panel shows, including Quote... Unquote and The Personality Test.
MacAulay and Co. was a daily magazine show on BBC Radio Scotland. The programme was presented by comedian Fred MacAulay with a different guest presenter each week, and featured a range of guests including journalists, musicians, comedians and members of the public.
Alun Cochrane is a British comedian, and actor. He was born in Glasgow and raised in Mirfield, West Yorkshire. He was a co-presenter on The Frank Skinner Show on Absolute Radio (2011-2022).
Trevor Lock is an English comedian, actor and playwright. He is noted for the circuitous and surreal nature of his comedy.
Tilusha Ghelani is a British radio and TV comedy producer. She joined the BBC in 2002 as a producer in Radio Light Entertainment. She produced the TV series Nurse starring Paul Whitehouse, and now works on the BBC Comedy commissioning team. Ghelani served as a judge for the 2003 Perrier Comedy Award.
Rainer Hersch is a British conductor, actor, writer and comedian known for his comical take on classical music. He has toured in more than 30 countries and has broadcast extensively, principally for the BBC. His radio series include All Classical Music Explained ; Rainer Hersch's 20th Century Retrospective and All the Right Notes, Not Necessarily in the Right Order.
Sarah Kendall is an Australian comedian from Newcastle, New South Wales. She won the Raw Comedy competition in 1998 and appeared regularly on Australian television. She moved to the United Kingdom in 2000 at the age of 24.
Thomas Tuck is a British actor and comedian known for being one third of comedy troupe The Penny Dreadfuls and as a stand-up comedian. He was nominated for the Best Newcomer award at the 2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Samantha Holland is an English actress. She trained at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama (1988–91) where her year group included Daniel Craig
John Osborne writes books, scripts and stories for Radio 4. He co-created the Sky 1 sitcom After Hours. He is based in Norwich, United Kingdom and studied at the University of East Anglia.
James Daniel Smallman is a stand-up comedian, radio presenter, professional wrestling promoter, blogger and voice-over artist. Smallman attended school in Hinckley, and went on to De Montfort University, graduating with a first-class Honours degree in English Literature.
Jacob Yapp is a British comedian, composer, and writer.
Chris Martin is an English stand-up comedian and writer. He currently lives and works in America with his wife, writing on The Late Late Show.
John Kearns is an English comedian and actor.
Pierre Novellie is a South African-born comedian.
John-Luke Roberts is a British stand-up comedian, writer, actor and performer.
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