"programme, initially to be called ""Choir Wars"", looked to find 'the nation's favourite choir'. Presented by Myleene Klass and Nick Knowles, the programme aired on Saturday nights, with some of the results shows shown on Sundays, in the same timeslot as other BBC entertainment programs such as ""Strictly Come Dancing"" and ""I'd Do Anything"". Applications on tape were accepted from amateur choirs of 10-50 people, aged 13 years or older, and around 1,000 choirs entered the competition. 60 choirs were then invited to audition in front of the three judges in May at Cadogan Hall in London, where the choirs"
"Logan Lynn Logan Dennis Lynn (born October 15, 1979) is an American musician, writer, producer, filmmaker, television personality, mental health advocate and LGBT activist from Portland, Oregon. Since 1998 he has released nine studio albums, and he is the former host of Logo's weekly music video countdown cable television show ""NewNowNext Music"". His eighth studio record, ""ADIEU."", was released September 23, 2016. Lynn is also one of the lead characters of ""Last Meal Series"", a show by the writers of ""Search Party"" on TBS channel. In 2018 Logan Lynn partnered with actor, comedian and podcaster-turned-music producer Jay Mohr on a"
"In 2015, Gero served as Executive Producer for Facing Addiction’s UNITE to Face Addiction Rally. The rally was a six-hour-long event that featured powerful statements from celebrities, public officials and advocates as well musical performances by top artists. Rich Vos, from the hit comedy show ""Last Comic Standing,"" hosted the event. President Barack Obama made remarks about treatment, prevention and recovery through a pre-recorded message shown at the event. The monumental rally was free to the public and took place on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Attendees enjoyed musical performances by Joe Walsh, Steven Tyler with his Nashville-based band,"
"Children's Hospital and placed on life support for nine days following the onset of croup. Speers plays the trumpet and demonstrated this ability while hosting the 2010 ASTRA Awards. David Speers David Speers (born 9 September 1974 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian journalist and the political editor at Sky News Australia, as well as host of ""PM Agenda"", ""The Last Word"" and ""Speers Tonight"". Speers began his career at K-Rock FM Geelong newsroom before moving to the Macquarie Radio Network at 2GB, and the Southern Cross radio network, including stations 2UE and 3AW, before joining Sky News Australia in"
"London Marathons; so far he has raised nearly £100,000 for Parkinson's UK. He currently cohosts a running themed podcast with fellow comedian and runner Paul Tonkinson called Running Commentary. https://www.acast.com/runningcommentary Rob Deering Rob Deering (born 1972), is an English comedian, musician and writer. Deering was the host and writer of three series of ""Out to Lunch"" on BBC Radio 2. He also hosted ""99 Things to Do Before You Die"" on Channel 5. In 2007, Deering appeared on a special edition of ""The Weakest Link"", winning the show and answering all his questions correctly. Deering also appeared on the Channel"
"Iliza Shlesinger Iliza Vie Shlesinger (; born February 22, 1983) is an American comedian. She was the 2008 winner of NBC's ""Last Comic Standing"" and went on to host the syndicated dating show ""Excused"" and the TBS comedy/game show ""Separation Anxiety"". In 2017, she briefly hosted her own late-night talk show called ""Truth & Iliza"" on Freeform. Shlesinger was born in Manhattan, New York, and was raised in Dallas, Texas. Her family is Jewish. She attended the private Greenhill School and participated on the school's improvisation team. She performed with ComedySportz Dallas and attended the University of Kansas for her"
"choir and orchestra conducted by Tom Brooks. In July 2017, Bennett was nominated for an Emmy Award for his song ""Last Christmas"" that was performed on ""Saturday Night Live"". He shares the nomination with Kenan Thompson, Eli Brueggemann, and Will Stephen in the category for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics. In August 2017, Bennett headlined day three of Lollapalooza at Grant Park in his hometown of Chicago. His performance drew record crowds with some estimates making it the largest attended performance in the event's history. In November 2017, Bennett curated and headlined the Obama Foundation community event at the Wintrust"
"doing so, Hill joined the likes of Helena Bonham Carter and Martin Bashir in supporting the work of the charity, which funds research for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and fights for improved standards of care. Harry Hill Harry Hill (born Matthew Keith Hall; 1 October 1964) is an English comedian, author and television presenter. He has narrated ""You've Been Framed"" since 2004, and hosted ""Harry Hill's TV Burp"" for eleven years, from 2001 to 2012. A former physician, Hill won the Perrier Award for Best Newcomer at the 1992 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and began his career in radio and television comedy"
"Air & Space Museum in Alameda, California on February 23, 2018, and premiered on Netflix on July 24, 2018. On May 12, 2018, Shlesinger married chef Noah Galuten. Iliza Shlesinger Iliza Vie Shlesinger (; born February 22, 1983) is an American comedian. She was the 2008 winner of NBC's ""Last Comic Standing"" and went on to host the syndicated dating show ""Excused"" and the TBS comedy/game show ""Separation Anxiety"". In 2017, she briefly hosted her own late-night talk show called ""Truth & Iliza"" on Freeform. Shlesinger was born in Manhattan, New York, and was raised in Dallas, Texas. Her family"
"University, Los Angeles. Tran has been a featured performer at Funny Fest and the Great Plains Saskatoon Comedy Festivals in Canada, Boston International Comedy and Movie Festival, Detroit Comedy Festival and the Seattle International Comedy Competition in the U.S. She is a contributing writer to various joke book series, is a regular guest on National Lampoon Comedy Radio, and is often featured on the Comedy Time Network, as well as being a regular guest on many popular podcasts. Tran was a Los Angeles area finalist on season six of the NBC show, Last Comic Standing. In 2011, she began working"
"Lolly Adefope Ololade Adefope (born 14 September 1990 in London) is an English stand-up comedian and actress, specialising in character comedy. As an actress, Adefope has appeared on ""Together"", ""Josh"", ""Plebs"", ""Rovers"" and ""Sick Note"". She has also participated as a guest on """", ""The Last Leg"", ""Don't Ask Me Ask Britain"", ""QI"", and ""Taskmaster"". Adefope was selected for the 2015 BBC Writersroom comedy programme. Adefope first performed a solo show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2015. In 2016 she was nominated for two Chortle Awards. In November 2018, Adefope criticised a comedy gig organised by Harry Hill, raising"
"Joe DeVito Joe DeVito (born December 1, 1968) is a stand-up comedian and writer living on Long Island, New York. In 2006, he was featured on Comedy Central's ""Live at Gotham"" and appeared at the Montreal ""Just for Laughs"" Comedy Festival in the New Faces program. In 2007, he was a semifinalist on NBC's ""Last Comic Standing"" Season 5. He has also appeared on ""The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson"" on CBS, Animal Planet and CNN, and he is a regular on Fox News Channel's ""Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld"". DeVito is a 1990 graduate of Fairfield University where"
"The Last Leg The Last Leg (known during its first series as The Last Leg with Adam Hills) is a British comedy and late night television talk show that originally ran alongside the 2012 Summer Paralympics every night following the main coverage on Channel 4. Hosted by Australian comedian Adam Hills and co-hosted by Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker, it gives an alternative review of the day's events. Featuring a mix of comedy, guests and Paralympics highlights, the show received strong reviews and regularly pulled in more than a million viewers each night of the Paralympic Games. It has since"
"Town Hall and the esteemed Carnegie Hall). He gained great national exposure with his ""Comedy Central Presents"" special in 2000, one of the highest rated in the network's history. He has made appearances on ""Comedy Central""'s ""Premium Blend"", ""The World Comedy Tour"" and ""The World Stands Up"". He has also made four appearances on ""Last Call with Carson Daly"", and has performed at the prestigious ""Just for Laughs"" Comedy Festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Lynch has opened for comedians Jay Mohr, Jeff Foxworthy, Steven Wright, Bobcat Goldthwait and Lewis Black. In the summer of 2004, he went on a tour"
"City. The show is created, produced and directed by Tony Sawicki, who also serves as the primary correspondent. Also featured are Drag Diva personality Lady Clover Honey, actor and filmmaker Fred Anguera, comedian Marianne Schaberg, performance artist Robin Cloud, and attorney and self-described ""Fag-Hag"" Stephanie Butler and comic Michele Balan who went on to achieve network fame as a top contestant on NBC's ""Last Comic Standing"". In 2004, Under the PINK Carpet was distributed by NETA (National Educational Telecommunications Association)a national distributor of PBS television programs to PBS stations in Washington DC, San Francisco and Austin. The series was also"
"events. He is currently touring across multiple venues in the United States. His tour dates can be found on his website, ZimmermanComedy.com. Joe Zimmerman Joe Zimmerman is an American stand-up comedian, currently residing in New York City. He has appeared on several television shows including ""Conan"" on TBS, ""The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson"", ""The Tonight Show"", and ""Last Comic Standing"" Season 8. He has also made appearances on Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, and Sirius XM. He was originally from Morgantown, WV. He started doing comedy in North Carolina in 2006 and continued performing in neighboring areas until he moved"
"Josh Widdicombe Joshua Michael Widdicombe (; born 8 April 1983) is an English comedian and radio and television presenter, best known for his appearances on ""The Last Leg"" (2012–present), ""Fighting Talk"" (2014–2016), ""Insert Name Here"" (2016–present), ""Have I Got News for You"" (2014–present) and his BBC Three sitcom ""Josh"" (2015–present). Widdicombe was born in Hammersmith, London and grew up in Haytor Vale near Widecombe-in-the-Moor in Devon. He then attended South Dartmoor Community College and later studied sociology and linguistics at the University of Manchester. Before becoming a comedian, Widdicombe worked as a sports journalist, writing for ""The Guardian"". He supports"
"he was a writer and editor for the ""Fairfield Mirror"". His debut album is called ""First Date with Joe DeVito"". Joe DeVito Joe DeVito (born December 1, 1968) is a stand-up comedian and writer living on Long Island, New York. In 2006, he was featured on Comedy Central's ""Live at Gotham"" and appeared at the Montreal ""Just for Laughs"" Comedy Festival in the New Faces program. In 2007, he was a semifinalist on NBC's ""Last Comic Standing"" Season 5. He has also appeared on ""The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson"" on CBS, Animal Planet and CNN, and he is"
"Natasha Leggero Natasha Leggero (born March 26, 1974) is an American actress, comedian, and writer. She rose to fame after appearing as the host of ""MTV's The 70s House"" (2005), and for her tenure as a regular roundtable panelist on Chelsea Handler's late-night talk show ""Chelsea Lately"". Her comedy, characterized as observational, has been noted by critics for its use of satire as commentary on such themes as celebrity culture and class. Her stand-up television appearances include performances on ""The Tonight Show with Jay Leno"", ""The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson"", ""Last Call with Carson Daly"", ""The Tonight Show"
"George McMahon (actor) George McMahon (born 20 September 1985 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish actor. He is known for his role as Jamie Custer in ""Custer's Last Stand-up"", and for his role as Mondo O'Connell in ""Fair City"". McMahon's career began at the age of 14 when he joined the Independent Theatre Workshop and the Helen Jordan Stage School. He won reality television show ""Celebrity Farm"" in 2003. He donated the €50,000 prize fund to three charities of his choice which were The Bubblegum Club; the Children's Cancer Fund of Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin; and"
"Comedy. Last Man Standing (U.S. TV series) Last Man Standing is an American television sitcom starring Tim Allen as a senior employee of a sporting goods store in Denver, Colorado, who is a married father of three daughters and a grandfather to his oldest daughter's son, Boyd. Distributed by 20th Century Fox Television, the series originally ran on ABC from 2011 to 2017 for six seasons, and entered syndication in 2015. Despite being ABC's second-highest rated sitcom for the 2016–17 season, it was revealed in May 2017 that the network had declined to renew ""Last Man Standing"" for a seventh"
"Angry Inch"" (2001)"", DoUlike2watch.com"" (2003), and ""Shortbus"" (2006). PJ DeBoy Paul J. ""PJ"" DeBoy (born June 7, 1971) is an American actor and talk show host. DeBoy was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He shares his name with his cousin, actor Paul DeBoy. He and Paul are cousins of Delegate Steven J. DeBoy Sr. DeBoy started his career in New York, where he performed with Miss Coco Peru and Kiki and Herb. He moved to Toronto in 1998. There, he hosted the show ""Locker Room"" on PrideVision and the late-night talk show ""Last Call"" on Toronto 1, and has appeared in"
"decision: ""And for tonight's weather – it's April, what do you expect?"" The financial reports were re-introduced after a few weeks. Paxman presented his last ""Newsnight"" on 21 November 2015 on the BBC News Channel at 23:20 with a Full interview with the Current Affairs. London Mayor Boris Johnson, while they both rode a tandem bicycle, as well as a brief reappearance of Michael Howard who, following on from his 1997 interview, was simply asked: ""Did you?"" The closing theme was replaced with ""I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing"" by The New Seekers. The programme ended with a"
"Diana Ross, Harry Connick Jr., David Copperfield, Frankie Valli, Bruce Springsteen, Lewis Black, and Aretha Franklin. The State Theatre has also hosted distinguished international orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the Mariinsky Orchestra, and the BBC Concert Orchestra, among others. On May 20, 2009, the State Theatre hosted the last performance by Peter, Paul, and Mary. Due to Mary Travers' long illness and continuing decline, the remaining shows that the trio had planned were either canceled, or only featured Peter Yarrow and Noel ""Paul"" Stookey. Mary Travers died of complications from chemotherapy"
"as the CBC Winnipeg, Halifax, and Vancouver Comedy Festivals and at the 2006 Cape Town Comedy Festival in South Africa. He has been featured numerous times on entertainment shows such as ""eTalk Daily"", ""Star! Daily"", ""Inside Jam!"", CBC Television's """" and CBC Radio One's ""The Debaters"", and was recently featured on the cover of ""NOW"" in Toronto, Ontario. He has also written for The National Post. He was also part of season five of ""Last Comic Standing"" when they auditioned in Montreal, Quebec. He made it to the Finals of Canada (Top 15) but did not advance to L.A. In"
"2018 so, at the time this was written, is currently presenting the programme. However, it seems this is probably temporary cover in the absence of the two main hosts. Dateline London Dateline London is a weekly news discussion programme. Each week, a panel of four leading journalists, lecturers, and commentators, discuss top news stories from an international perspective. ""Dateline London"" was first hosted by Charles Wheeler, and subsequently by Gavin Esler. Shaun Ley and Maxine Mawhinney all served as stand-in hosts during Esler's tenure. Esler hosted his final edition on 25 March 2017, and Mawhinney on 8 April 2017. Since"
"hundreds of venues across Texas as well - most notably at the Austin City Limits Music Festival (ACL Fest) in 2004, 2005, and 2006. They are the musical host of the annual Austin Family Music Festival. The television program just aired its sixth season in the fall of 2011 and plans to air a seventh in the fall of 2012. It currently stars Allen Robertson ""Buford Biscuit"" (also Music Director), Jerome Schoolar ""Dusty Biscuit"" (also Producer), Jill Leberknight ""Buttermilk Biscuit"" (also the Field Producer), Damon Brown ""Tiny Scarecrow"" (also Director), and Ian Scott ""Old MacDonald"". Music icon Willie Nelson also"
"Harding (2015 - 2018), Jay Reeve (2009 - 2014), Paul ""Flynny"" Flynn (2003 - 2014), Stu Tolan (2008) and Iain Stables (2003 - 2008). Early network drive shows have included duo Mike McClung & Tim Homer (2000), and later Jason Royal (2001 - 2002). The night show is presented by Cam Mansel. The show runs from 7:00pm to 12:00am. Past night show announcers have included Willy Macalister (1998 - 1999), Geoff Stagg (1999 - 2002), Stu Tolan & Jacqui Jensen (2003 - 2007), Mark Dye (2007 - 2008), Matt Ward (2009 - 2011), Luke Taplin (2011-2014), Polly Harding (PJ) (2011"
"in New York City. Her late husband was the Director and Treasurer of Standing Tall. The 1995 benefit concert ""Anyone Can Whistle"" and Peters' ""Carnegie Hall"" 1996 concert were benefits for the Gay Men's Health Crisis. In 2007, Peters helped the Broadway community celebrate the end of the stagehand strike in a ""Broadway's Back"" concert at the Marquis Theatre. In 2008, she was one of the participants in a fund-raiser for the Westport Country Playhouse, and in the opening ceremony and dedication of the renovated TKTS discount ticket booth in Times Square. That year, she also presented New York City"
"Last Man Standing (U.S. TV series) Last Man Standing is an American television sitcom starring Tim Allen as a senior employee of a sporting goods store in Denver, Colorado, who is a married father of three daughters and a grandfather to his oldest daughter's son, Boyd. Distributed by 20th Century Fox Television, the series originally ran on ABC from 2011 to 2017 for six seasons, and entered syndication in 2015. Despite being ABC's second-highest rated sitcom for the 2016–17 season, it was revealed in May 2017 that the network had declined to renew ""Last Man Standing"" for a seventh season."
"Radio City Music Hall on 6 October 2012. He has performed two stand-up television specials on Comedy Central, both released on DVD: ""A Wee Bit o' Revolution"" in 2009 and ""Does This Need to Be Said?"" in 2011. His third comedy special, ""I'm Here to Help"", was released on Netflix in 2013, garnering positive reviews on 4 out of 5 stars on Netflix and peaking at number 6 on Billboard top comedy albums. It also received a 2014 Grammy Award nomination for Best Comedy Album. Ferguson was awarded the Peter Ustinov Comedy Award by the Banff World Media Festival on"
"Rob Deering Rob Deering (born 1972), is an English comedian, musician and writer. Deering was the host and writer of three series of ""Out to Lunch"" on BBC Radio 2. He also hosted ""99 Things to Do Before You Die"" on Channel 5. In 2007, Deering appeared on a special edition of ""The Weakest Link"", winning the show and answering all his questions correctly. Deering also appeared on the Channel 4 quiz show Fifteen to One in 1997. He won an edition of ""Celebrity Mastermind"" broadcast on 28 December 2014 with a score of 27 points. Deering has appeared as"
"Kristin Chenoweth, Jason Isbell, Beverly Sills, Yo-Yo Ma, Renee Fleming, Emma Thompson, Joan Sutherland, Josh Groban, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Patina Miller, the New York City Ballet, the Mark Morris Dance Group, the American Ballet Theatre, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the New York Philharmonic, and the New York City Opera. Martin Bookspan served as the program announcer from the premiere of ""Live From Lincoln Center"" until his retirement in 2006, at which point Fred Child took over. On-camera hosts throughout the broadcast’s history have included Dick Cavett, Hugh Downs, Sam Waterston, Garrick Utley, Patrick Watson, and Beverly Sills. Most recently,"