Who wrote an Evening With Gary Lineker
"An Evening with Gary Lineker An Evening with Gary Lineker is a 1991 stage play, adapted for television in 1994, by Arthur Smith and Chris England. The action takes place against the backdrop of the 1990 Football World Cup semi-final, between England and West Germany, which is taking place in Italy while Monica and Bill are on holiday in Ibiza. Bill desperately wants to watch the match; Monica wants to talk about their relationship. The play was nominated for an Olivier Award. A 90-minute television drama, adapted by Smith and England from their playscript, was produced by Andy Harries for"
"Chris England Chris England (born 20 January 1961 in Oldham) is an English writer and actor. He is best known for the comedy play ""An Evening with Gary Lineker"", which he wrote with Arthur Smith, and the book ""Balham to Bollywood"". Chris England was educated at Valley Comprehensive School, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, and at Pembroke College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge he was a member of the Footlights, and toured the UK and Australia with them. After graduating, England formed Bad Lib Theatre Company with fellow ex-Footlights Morwenna Banks, Robert Harley, Neil Mullarkey, Paul Simpkin and David Tyler, co-writing, performing and directing"
"to offer the script to Granada because of his previous experience with the company. However, in 1992 he was accepted the position of controller of comedy at Granada and ""An Evening with Gary Lineker"" was made. Harries was disappointed that pressure from Granada's management had forced him to replace so many of the original stage cast; England was replaced by Paul Merton, leaving Caroline Quentin as the only original actor. The Edinburgh Fringe played an important role in Harries' early commissions at Granada; he was not fond of traditional styles of comedy and was always looking for alternative comedians. These"
"the poetry society, wrote for the student newspaper and contributed sketches for the student review. He graduated with a 2:1 BA degree in Comparative Literature in 1976. Smith was one of many stand-up performers on the alternative comedy scene in the 1980s. He still performs today in much the same manner, and has regularly attended the Edinburgh Fringe comedy festival since 1977, and still compering the long-running Hackney Empire New Act of the Year competition final. He has also written a body of serious or semi-serious work, including stage plays such as ""An Evening with Gary Lineker"". In addition to"
"An Evening with Jerry Herman An Evening with Jerry Herman is a musical revue of Jerry Herman's work and consists of songs written by him for several of his musicals and anecdotes about Herman's career. The revue ran on Broadway at the Booth Theatre from July 28, 1998 until August 23, 1998, after 13 previews. Directed and choreographed by Lee Roy Reams, it starred Reams, Florence Lacey, and Herman, with Herman also providing piano accompaniment, along with Jered Egan on bass. Herman received a Theatre World Award Special Award. The show premiered at the Westport Country Playhouse (Connecticut) in July"
"daytime television show they co-created. ""Harry"" starring Harry Connick, Jr. In two seasons, ""Harry"" was honored with 11 Daytime Emmy nominations (2 wins) and a Critics Choice Award nomination. Justin Stangel Justin Stangel is a radio and television showrunner, writer and producer. In 1998, Stangel and his brother Eric Stangel become the head writers of ""Late Show with David Letterman"", positions they held until 2013. Stangel and his brother Eric Stangel created a stage show in Manhattan, titled ""Big City Comedy."" The success of the show led to writing work for Norm MacDonald's Weekend Update on ""Saturday Night Live"", the"
"An Evening with Richard Nixon An Evening With Richard Nixon, originally billed as An Evening With Richard Nixon and ..., is a play by Gore Vidal which opened at the Shubert Theatre in April 1972. The play was produced by Hillard Elkins, directed by Edwin Sherin, and starred George S. Irving, Gene Rupert, Humbert Allen Estredo, Stephen D. Newman, Philip Sterling and Robert King. As yet ""undiscovered"" in the ensemble were future stars Maureen Anderman and Susan Sarandon. The play is a wry examination of the career and Presidency (up to that pre-Watergate point) of Richard M. Nixon (Irving). As"
"on Granada's daytime soap operas. In 1993, Langan returned to London to work for Andy Harries at Granada's newly created comedy department, where she script-edited ""September Song"", the television adaptation of ""An Evening with Gary Lineker"", and the second series of ""Rik Mayall Presents"". In 1995, she was associate producer on ""The Perfect Match"", a one-off comedy drama written by former BBC radio producer Mike Bullen. ""The Perfect Match"" was broadcast in September 1995, and shortly afterwards, Harries asked Langan to develop more ideas from Bullen. They devised ""Cold Feet"", another one-off comedy drama based on the love lives of"
"An Evening with Groucho An Evening With Groucho is the title of a 1972 recording at New York City's Carnegie Hall of the last one-man show by American comedian Groucho Marx. Introduced by Dick Cavett, the show was released as a double album by A&M Records. Marx shared family and show business stories and performed songs from Marx Brothers stage shows and movies. Marvin Hamlisch performed an opening overture and accompanied Groucho on the piano. In 2018, the recording was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or artistically significant."""
"An Evening with Groucho An Evening With Groucho is the title of a 1972 recording at New York City's Carnegie Hall of the last one-man show by American comedian Groucho Marx. Introduced by Dick Cavett, the show was released as a double album by A&M Records. Marx shared family and show business stories and performed songs from Marx Brothers stage shows and movies. Marvin Hamlisch performed an opening overture and accompanied Groucho on the piano. In 2018, the recording was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or artistically significant."""
"Gary Lineker Gary Winston Lineker (; born 30 November 1960) is an English former professional footballer and current sports broadcaster. He holds England's record for goals in FIFA World Cup finals, with 10 scored. Lineker's media career began with the BBC, where he has presented the flagship football programme ""Match of the Day"" since the late 1990s. He has also worked for Al Jazeera Sports, Eredivisie Live, NBC Sports Network and currently hosts BT Sport's coverage of the UEFA Champions League. Lineker began his football career at Leicester City in 1978, and finished as the First Division's joint top goalscorer"
"senior lecturer of creative writing at Yale University. ""The Hours"" established Cunningham as a major force in U.S. writing, and his 2010 novel, ""By Nightfall"", was also well received by U.S. critics. Cunningham edited a book of poetry and prose by Walt Whitman, ""Laws for Creations"", and co-wrote, with Susan Minot, a screenplay adapted from Minot's novel ""Evening"". He was a producer for the 2007 film ""Evening"", starring Glenn Close, Toni Collette, and Meryl Streep. In November 2010, Cunningham judged one of NPR's ""Three Minute Fiction"" contests. Although Cunningham is gay and was in a long-term domestic partnership with psychoanalyst"
"Danny DeVito. Resnick also created and wrote the 1996 HBO television series ""The High Life"". In 2014, his book ""Will Not Attend"" was released. Adam Resnick Adam Resnick is an American comedy writer from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He is best known for his work writing for ""Late Night with David Letterman"". Additionally, Resnick co-created and wrote for ""Get A Life"" with Chris Elliott. Resnick also wrote and was co-executive producer of a season of ""The Larry Sanders Show"" for HBO. Two years later, in 1994, Resnick would team up with Elliott again for the motion picture ""Cabin Boy"". In 2000, Resnick"
"An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba is a Grammy Award-winning 1965 album by Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba. It was the second outcome of the long lasting collaboration between Belafonte and Makeba, the first being the appearance of Makeba in the song ""Just One More Dance"" on Belafonte's 1960 album, ""Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall"". Despite the title, the album is not a collection of live duet performances by Harry Belafonte and Makeba. It is a studio album of 12 tracks, five by Belafonte, five by Makeba, and two duets. The songs are all African traditional tunes sung"
"roommates with comedian Steve Martin and musician Michael Johnson. Gary Mule Deer Gary Mule Deer (born Gary C. Miller; November 21, 1939) is an American comedian and country musician. During a career spanning four decades, Mule Deer has performed on many major concert stages in the United States, and has made over 350 television appearances, including many on both ""The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson"" and the ""Late Show with David Letterman"", both of whose hosts he had met early in his career at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles. He was one of six comedians, along with Jay Leno,"
"Sanford Jay Frank Sanford Jay ""Sandy"" Frank, also known as Sandy Frank (July 21, 1954 – April 18, 2014), was a television writer who was known as a writer for ""Late Night with David Letterman"". He wrote for Letterman's NBC show for four years, during which the show won four Emmy Awards for comedy-variety writing. Frank had a bachelor's degree in mathematics and a law degree from Harvard and had written for ""The Harvard Lampoon"". He joined the writing staff for ""Late Night"" after running into his old college friend Jim Downey who served as head writer for the Letterman"
"Night with David Letterman""), and writer/director David Mirkin (former executive producer/showrunner for ""Newhart"" and later for ""The Simpsons""). Mirkin was executive producer/showrunner of the series and also directed most of the episodes. Notable writers of the series included Charlie Kaufman, screenwriter of ""Being John Malkovich""; and Bob Odenkirk, co-creator of ""Mr. Show with Bob and David"" and ""Tenacious D"". The show was unconventional for a prime time sitcom, and many times the storylines of the episodes were surreal. For example, Elliott's character actually dies in twelve episodes. The causes of death included being crushed by a giant boulder, old age,"
"1997. The revue is similar to two 1970s recordings of Herman songs recorded live in concert, one titled ""Rainbow & Stars: An Evening With Jerry Herman"", featuring Karen Morrow, Reams and Herman; and the other titled ""An Evening With Jerry Herman"" (1974) featuring Lisa Kirk, Joe Masiell, Carol Dorian and Herman, both available on CD. The revue followed a 1985 Broadway revue of Herman's work, titled ""Jerry's Girls"". An Evening with Jerry Herman An Evening with Jerry Herman is a musical revue of Jerry Herman's work and consists of songs written by him for several of his musicals and anecdotes"
"Rowan Ayers Rowan Ayers (16 June 1922 – 5 January 2008) was a television producer and poet. He was best known as producer of BBC's ""Line-Up"" and ""Late Night Line-Up"" in the 1960s. He was the originator of BBCs influential late night rock music show ""Old Grey Whistle Test"" and the long-running ""Points of View"". He was also responsible for the BBC's ""Open Door"". Born in Essex, Ayers began his career as a journalist on Fleet Street as an editor for ""Radio Times"" before moving to television. After several years with the BBC, in 1974 he moved to Australia where"
"Andrew Weinberg Andrew Weinberg (born 1976) is an American television writer, known for his work on ""Late Night with Conan O'Brien"" and ""The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien"". He is also a co-creator and co-writer of the television series ""Eagleheart (TV series)"". The quarter-hour series is a parody of action crime dramas like ""Walker, Texas Ranger"" and originated in Conan O'Brien's Conaco Prods. Weinberg and his fellow writers for ""Late Night with Conan O'Brien"" were awarded the Emmy Award in 2007, and were nominees in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009. In 2006, they were awarded the"
"Krieger lives in New York City's Greenwich Village with the actor Robert Joy, his partner since 1995. Henry Krieger Henry Krieger (born February 9, 1945 in New York City) is an American musical theatre composer. He most notably wrote the music for the Broadway shows ""Dreamgirls"" (1981, with lyrics and book by Tom Eyen), ""The Tap Dance Kid"" (1983), and ""Side Show"" (1997). He was nominated for the Tony Awards for Best Score for both ""Dreamgirls"" and ""Side Show"", won a Grammy Award for the cast album of ""Dreamgirls"" and received three Academy Award nominations for the songs he wrote"
"80 Days"" (1989) and """" (1991). Goldenberg served as Musical Director for ""Elvis Presley's Comeback Special"", ""The Ann-Margret Show"", ""An Evening with Diana Ross"" and others. He received an Emmy Award in 1975 for the CBS miniseries ""Benjamin Franklin"" and again in 1978 for the NBC miniseries ""King"". He has received 22 Emmy nominations in total. Goldenberg served as musical accompanist for ""An Evening with Elaine May and Mike Nichols"". He was also the composer of the Michael Bennett-directed Broadway musical ""Ballroom"", based on the television special ""Queen of the Stardust Ballroom"", which he also composed. Billy Goldenberg William Leon"
"Motivational Speaker"", for Chris Farley, which would later be reprised on ""SNL"". In 1991, Odenkirk was hired to write for the TV show ""Get a Life"", which starred ""Late Night with David Letterman"" alumnus Chris Elliott. He wrote for ""The Dennis Miller Show"". Odenkirk's friendship with Ben Stiller, with whom he briefly shared an office at ""SNL"", would lead to him being hired for the cast of ""The Ben Stiller Show"" in 1992. Working as both a writer and actor on the show, he created and starred in the memorable sketch ""Manson Lassie"", and helped the show win an Emmy"
"received positive reviews from ""Publishers Weekly"", ""Parenting Magazine"", ""Men's Health"", and ""Esquire"". Gary Greenberg Gary Greenberg is an American author and comedian. He is known for writing comedic material for Comedy Central. He has appeared on Comedy Central and Bravo. , he is a staff writer on ""Jimmy Kimmel Live"" on ABC Television. In 2012, he won a Producers and Writers Guild Award for his work as head writer of Jimmy Kimmel's ""After the Academy Awards"" telecast. Greenberg is the author of ""The Pop-up Book of Phobias"", ""The Pop-up Book of Nightmares"", ""Self-Helpless: The Greatest Self-Help Books You'll Never Read"","
"Ernie"" on the BBC's children's channel, CBeebies. In December 2008, Lineker appeared on the ITV1 television programme ""Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"" where he and English rugby union player Austin Healey won £50,000 for the Nicholls Spinal Injury Foundation. In 2009, Lineker and his wife Danielle hosted a series of the BBC's ""Northern Exposure"", following on from Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen from the previous year in visiting and showcasing locations throughout Northern Ireland. In May 2010, Lineker resigned from his role as columnist for ""The Mail on Sunday"" in protest over the sting operation against Lord Triesman that reportedly jeopardised England's"
"wrote ""Merton of the Movies"", ""Dulcy"", and ""Beggar on Horseback""; with Ring Lardner he wrote ""June Moon""; with Edna Ferber he wrote ""The Royal Family"", ""Dinner at Eight"", and ""Stage Door""; with John P. Marquand he wrote a stage adaptation of Marquand's novel ""The Late George Apley""; and with Howard Teichmann he wrote ""The Solid Gold Cadillac"". According to his biography on PBS, ""he wrote some of the American theater's most enduring comedies"" with Moss Hart. Their work includes ""Once in a Lifetime"" (in which he also performed), ""Merrily We Roll Along"", ""The Man Who Came to Dinner"" and ""You"
"Geoffrey Perkins Geoffrey Howard Perkins (22 February 1953 – 29 August 2008) was a British comedy producer, writer and performer. Best known as the BBC head of comedy (1995–2001), he produced the first two radio series of ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" and is one of the people credited with creating the bizarre panel game Mornington Crescent for ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"". In December 2008 he posthumously received an Outstanding Contribution to Comedy Award. Perkins attended the Harrow County Grammar School, alongside Nigel Sheinwald, Michael Portillo and Clive Anderson, with whom he ran the debating society. Taking"
"cinematographer William A Fraker, who shot ""The President's Analyst"". As the writer of the pilot for the television series ""Barney Miller"" (1975), he became the show's co-owner, and also wrote and/or directed episodes of ""The Dick Van Dyke Show"", ""The Andy Griffith Show"", ""The Man From U.N.C.L.E."", ""Night Gallery"", ""The Streets of San Francisco"", and ""I Dream of Jeannie"". Flicker also appeared as the Devil in a 1971 episode of ""Night Gallery"" he had written called ""Hell's Bells"". Flicker has written extensively on expressionism and how it applies to his own art, and is the author of the epic novel"
"Laurier Lister George Laurier Lister, OBE (22 April 1907 – 30 September 1986) was an English theatre writer, actor, director and producer, best known for a series of revues in the late 1940s and 1950s. Laurier Lister was born in Sanderstead Croydon, Surrey. In the 1930s he acted in a number of plays in the West End, including ""Death Takes a Holiday"" (1931), ""The Long Christmas Dinner"" (1933), ""Twelfth Night"" (1933), ""Cabbages and Kings"" (1933), ""Hervey House"" (1934), ""A Kiss for Cinderella"" (1937), and ""People of Our Class"" (1938). He also wrote, with Hilda Vaughan, ""She Too Was Young"", a"
"John Reeger John Reeger is a Chicago actor and playwright. He is married to Paula Scrofano and has two children, Adam and Alison Reeger. His fifteen productions include: His thirty productions include: With Julie Shannon creating the music and lyrics, John Reeger wrote The Christmas Schooner which premiered at Bailiwick Repertory Theatre and received the 1996 Chicago After Dark Award for outstanding new work. A twelve-year (as of 2006) continuing seasonal run has followed as well as a CD, and productions in the Midwest, Texas and California have also been successful. Based on the true story of a Great Lakes"
"practitioner. He is married to Debra Wakefield Evans, a television editor. Richard Bunger Evans Richard Bunger Evans, also known as Richard Bunger, (born 1942) is an American composer and pianist who worked with John Cage and subsequently wrote ""the classic book on John Cage,"" ""The Well-Prepared Piano"". Evans has composed and performed music for opera and musical theatre, piano, art songs, prepared piano, choral music, string orchestra and chamber music. Evans continues to compose and perform in these various genres, and is highly respected as an accompanist to singers. During his 17-year career as a music professor, Evans was named"
"An Evening with Lucian Freud An Evening with Lucian Freud is a 2015 play written by Laura-Jane Foley. It is a one-woman show with video cameos based on a real life encounter the playwright had with the artist Lucian Freud. The play made its world premiere on 19 May 2015 at the West End's Leicester Square Theatre where it ran until 6 June 2015. The play is based on a real life encounter the playwright Laura-Jane Foley had with the artist Lucian Freud. In the 65 minute one act play with video cameos, the character Laura recounts the evening she"
"unless otherwise stated. Eric Sykes Eric Sykes (4 May 1923 – 4 July 2012) was an English radio, stage, television and film writer, comedian, actor, and director whose performing career spanned more than 50 years. He frequently wrote for and performed with many other leading comedy performers and writers of the period, including Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan, Tommy Cooper, Peter Sellers, John Antrobus, and Johnny Speight. Sykes first came to prominence through his many radio credits as a writer and actor in the 1950s, most notably through his collaboration on ""The Goon Show"" scripts. He became a TV star in"