Michael McIntyre is a relative newcomer to the UK comedy scene, having been nominated for Perrier Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 2003. Since then McIntyre has worked continuously, selling out live shows across the UK and grabbing attention on his many appearances on TV shows such as Have I got News For You, The Royal Variety Performance and perhaps most importantly, twice on BBC’s ‘Live’ At The Apollo.
His DVD has become the fastest selling debut stand-up DVD of all time.
McIntyre is a well presented, well spoken comedian who blends his own brand of observational comedy in to everyday life and news events. One of my personal favourites being his take on the terrorist attack on Glasgow Airport as seen in this clip from ‘Live’ at the Apollo:
Michael McIntyre can currently be seen on BBC tv hosting a show on Saturday nights , called Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, a replacement for the outgoing ‘Live’ at the Apollo. McIntyre takes over from Jack Dee as resident comedian and compere of the show that tours around UK theatre’s, other than the Apollo.
Each of the six Comedy Roadshow’s will feature a routine by McIntyre, the introduction of three stand up comedians new to prime time tv and will finish with a different headline act at each venue.
McIntyre begins a massive UK tour in September-starting in Cardiff for four nights from the 21st and finishing up at London’s O2 Arena on 17th November. The comedian has promised a brand new show for The Michael McIntyre UK Tour 2009, or the Arena Tour as he proudly advertises it.
The Michael McIntyre UK Tour 2009 is one of many outstanding comedy shows in the UK this year, others including Ricky Gervais, Eddie Izzard and Jimmy Carr.
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Another classic from Green Wing featuring Dr. Alan Statham, a sort of modern day John Cleese character. Here he gets involved in a verbal slanging much with the hospital parking attendant.
Guy is having to serve community service by helping out painting at the hospital where he is a medical student on Green Wing. Not wishing to blow his cover, he tries to blend in with his poor impression of working class talk.
Ricky Gervais has announced the dates for Science, his fourth stand-up tour.
Ricky Gervais is probably best known for the groundbreaking, multi -award-winning TV shows The Office and Extras.
The Office was brilliant. David Brent (Ricky Gervais) starred in a mock fly-on-the-wall documentary about office life. Brent was an arrogant, camera-loving office manager with cringe-worthy statements and awkward moments endeared an audience through familiarity. It seems everybody knows someone like David Brent.
But the real success of the show was the interaction between the members of staff, and the situations played out so well before the camera. Sometimes uncomfortable, sometimes bellyache funny. Always well written and superbly delivered with pin-point comic timing.
Gervais and co-writer Stephen Merchant turned down lucrative offers to write a third series of The Office; a decision that meant it bowed out at the top, unlike many other comedy writers that can’t resist another pay cheque. Instead Gervais and Merchant wrote Extras; another brilliant comedy that used Gervais’ new found ‘friend to the stars’ status to include a famous actor in every episode whereby they were normally asked to do or say things other writers would dear ask them to do. Ronnie Corbert being caught snorting cocaine in a toilet cubicle, for example.
Ricky Gervais’ popularity and success has continued to blossom with a successful Hollywood acting career under his belt in films such as Night at the Museum, Stardust and Ghost Town.
But this year Gervais will return to the UK for what promises to be another sell-out live tour. The 2009 tour is called Science, and follows the previous stand-up toursAnimals, Politics and Fame; all of which were sell-out tours and made a successful transition to DVD, too. No doubt one of the Ricky Gervais Tour dates will recorded for Science – the DVD, and will be available in time for Christmas2009!
The Ricky Gervais Science Tour runs from 24th August - 16th December and is one of many stand-up comedy shows to tour the UK this summer, including Michael McIntyre, Eddie Izzard and the ‘King of the one-liners’ Jimmy Carr.
Here’s a short excerpt from Politics with Ricky Gervais re-enacting a conversation between Adolf Hitler and Friedrich Nietzsche.
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