Which Scottish comedian had his World Tour of Australia shown on TV
"show was cancelled, he made some guest appearances in TV shows (such as ""Get A Life"" and ""Wings"") and an appearance in the movie ""Ernest Rides Again"" but mostly experienced rejection during this time while incurring sizable debts. He returned to Canada in 1993 and turned his experience in L.A. into a stage show in 1994 called ""Up & Down in Shaky Town: One Man's Journey through the California Dream"", which was also shown as a special on The Comedy Network. Afterwards, he came across the work of Scottish comedian Billy Connolly, whose style helped shape his own and inspired"
"Michael McIntyre Michael Hazen James McIntyre (born 21 February 1976) is an English comedian, actor, and TV presenter. In 2012, he was reported to be the highest-grossing comedian in the world. In addition to stand-up, McIntyre has hosted his own BBC One comedy programme ""Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow"", has featured in three episodes of ""Live at the Apollo"" and, in 2011, was a judge on ""Britain's Got Talent"". He currently presents his own Saturday night series ""Michael McIntyre's Big Show"" on BBC One. McIntyre resides in Hampstead, London with his aromatherapist wife, Kitty, who is a daughter of the late"
"All Aussie Adventures All Aussie Adventures, also known as Russell Coight's All Aussie Adventures, is an Australian mockumentary television series that parodies the travel-adventure genre. Comedian Glenn Robbins plays Russell Coight, a survival and wildlife expert who charts his disastrous travels through Australia, spreading misinformation and causing accidents. The series originally ran on Network Ten from 5 August 2001 to 29 September 2002. There was also a 14 November 2004 telemovie, ""Russell Coight's Celebrity Challenge"", which featured minor (fictional) celebrities joining Coight in the outback. It was announced on 4 November 2016 that the show would return for a third"
"Janeiro, musical acts and guest comedians. As himself Jimeoin Jimeoin (; born James Eoin Stephen Paul McKeown, 24 January 1966) is an Irish stand-up comedian and actor. He rose to prominence in Australia in the early 1990s, and had his own TV show. He came to UK public attention between 2005 and 2008 while performing an ""over the top"" comedy tour of Australia's outback and major cities, which was filmed for the BBC Northern Ireland documentary ""Jimeoin Down Under"". He has also gained international recognition and is a frequent performer at comedy festivals, including the world's biggest arts festival, Edinburgh"
"on the Rest of the World team. He gave up drinking alcohol for a year in 2014. During 2016 Bridges took a break from stand-up to learn Spanish in Madrid. Kevin Bridges Kevin Andrew Bridges (born 13 November 1986) is a Scottish stand-up comedian. He is known for his successful tours and festival shows in the UK and across Europe. The 2012 television series """" was based on his stand-up routines. He has also appeared on many television panel shows including ""Would I Lie to You?"", ""Have I Got News for You"" and has performed on ""Live at the Apollo"""
"Ian Wright (traveller) Ian Douglas Wright (born 17 May 1965, Suffolk, England) is an English television host and comedian. Wright was host of Pilot Productions' travel/adventure television series ""Globe Trekker"" (also called ""Pilot Guides"" in Canada and the United States and originally broadcast as ""Lonely Planet""). He also hosted the short-lived program Ian Wright Live, a show filmed before a live audience and featured discussions on various travel topics. A seasoned international traveller, Wright is perhaps the most recognizable host of ""Globe Trekker"". He is known for his witty banter, cockney accent, and amusing interactions with locals. For 7 years,"
"of a TV chat show, ""Friday Night with Dougie Donnelly"" directed by Martin Cairns, and was TV Personality of the Year in Scotland in 1982. He left the BBC after the 2010 Scottish Cup Final, his 33rd in a row, and is currently lead commentator on European Tour Productions' worldwide live TV coverage of golf's European Tour, travelling to around 20 tournaments a year around the world. Donnelly was known outside Scotland by his involvement in the BBC's networked output of golf, darts, snooker and bowls. He was the first Scot to present the ""Grandstand"" programme, which he did on"
"Glen Michael Glen Michael, born Cecil Buckland (born 16 May 1926), is a former children's television presenter and an entertainer. His career at Scottish Television spanned several decades with the popular show ""Glen Michael's Cartoon Cavalcade"". He was born in Devon, England, but has found the majority of his success in Scotland. Born in 1926, Michael began his career as an entertainer on stage for the army and worked his way up with his many shows that encompassed his talent for comedy, in particular, impersonations. Upon leaving his native England for the theatre circuit of Scotland, he found further success"
"Stephen Carlin Stephen Carlin is a Scottish-born stand-up comedian and writer, now living in London. He was named by Stewart Lee as one of the 'Ten Best Comedians In The World Ever'. He has appeared on television and radio including ITV2's Comedy Cuts and The Milk Run on BBC Radio 1. He is represented by Glorious Management. He supported Stewart Lee on his “90s Comedian” tour and Tom Stade on his “Totally Rocks” tour. He has also supported Stephen Merchant and Felix Dexter on their national tours. He appeared in Season 1 and 2 of Comedy Central’s The Alternative Comedy"
"Gillen portraying the comedian. Dave Allen (comedian) David Tynan O'Mahony (6 July 193610 March 2005), better known as Dave Allen, was an Irish observational comedian and satirist. Initially becoming known in Australia during 1963–64, Allen made regular television appearances in the United Kingdom from the later 1960s and until the mid-1980s. The BBC aired his ""Dave Allen Show"" 1972–1986, which was also exported to several other European countries. His career had a major resurgence during the late 1980s and early 1990s. At the height of his career he was Britain's most controversial comedian, regularly provoking indignation at his frequent highlighting"
"Michael did attend the premiere of the movie in London. In 2008 Michael released an autobiography called ""Life's a Cavalcade"", in which he tells how he worked his way to becoming a performer, his life in the army and how he ended up in Scotland. Glen Michael Glen Michael, born Cecil Buckland (born 16 May 1926), is a former children's television presenter and an entertainer. His career at Scottish Television spanned several decades with the popular show ""Glen Michael's Cartoon Cavalcade"". He was born in Devon, England, but has found the majority of his success in Scotland. Born in 1926,"
"McDermott), appearing in their TV series, ""DAAS Kapital"", and their film ""The Edinburgh Years"". He has also featured in episodes of the sitcom ""Kath & Kim"", as well as hosting the series ""The Way We Were"", and has appeared in the animated Australian/Canadian sitcom, ""Quads!"" as the voice of Spalding (SBS 2002). Trevorrow is a regular fill-in presenter on the ""Evening Show"" on 702 ABC Sydney. He has also been a contestant on the special ""Australia's Brainiest Comedian"". Mark Trevorrow Mark Trevorrow (born 4 February 1959 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian comedian, television host and media personality. He was"
"Jimeoin Jimeoin (; born James Eoin Stephen Paul McKeown, 24 January 1966) is an Irish stand-up comedian and actor. He rose to prominence in Australia in the early 1990s, and had his own TV show. He came to UK public attention between 2005 and 2008 while performing an ""over the top"" comedy tour of Australia's outback and major cities, which was filmed for the BBC Northern Ireland documentary ""Jimeoin Down Under"". He has also gained international recognition and is a frequent performer at comedy festivals, including the world's biggest arts festival, Edinburgh Fringe where he made his debut in 1993"
"Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow is a British stand-up comedy television series hosted by comedian Michael McIntyre from different venues around the United Kingdom and Ireland. The first series was broadcast with six episodes in 2009. Each episode features a routine from McIntyre, followed by three other comedians before the headline act. A second six episode series in the same format followed in 2010. A special one-hour Christmas episode transmitted on 25 December 2011. The series was commissioned in February 2009 following the success of ""Live at the Apollo"". Hosted by stand-up comedian Michael McIntyre, the series"
"Kevin Bridges Kevin Andrew Bridges (born 13 November 1986) is a Scottish stand-up comedian. He is known for his successful tours and festival shows in the UK and across Europe. The 2012 television series """" was based on his stand-up routines. He has also appeared on many television panel shows including ""Would I Lie to You?"", ""Have I Got News for You"" and has performed on ""Live at the Apollo"" and ""Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow"". Bridges began performing on stage when he left school shortly after turning 17, doing stand-up comedy gigs at The Stand Comedy Club in Glasgow and"
"A huge fan of Rangers , he even had Ibrox legend George Young appear as a guest on his television show. Lex McLean Lex McLean (born Alexander McLean Cameron, 30 April 1907 — 23 March 1975) was a Scottish comedian. Described as ""almost certainly the last of Scotland's great music hall comedians"" , he played to capacity houses all over Scotland from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, when he had to semi-retire on the grounds of ill health. Known as ""Sexy Lex"" for his risque but never obscene humour, McLean's act was even passed by the Lord Chamberlain."
"Scottish rugby commentators and journalists The most famous of TV commentators until recently was Bill McLaren, a Scotsman from Hawick and one of world rugby's best-loved personalities. He retired in 2002 and died in 2010. Ian Robertson is also a Scottish TV commentator and former Cambridge Blue, with eight Scottish caps to his name. He is famous for commentating in the Rugby Union World Cup Final between England and Australia at Sydney in 2003. David Sole also does TV commentary. Andrew Cotter is also another well known commentator. In January 2018, Derek Rae who had recently returned to the USA"
"Union, on the day of the EU referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. In 2008, The Times newspaper stated that the ""Two-time world champion, quadruple Guinness World Record-holder, built out of muscle, tattoo ink and piercings, the Space Cowboy gathers crowds that nobody else in Edinburgh can muster without a seat on Mock the Week."" In 2009 Hultgren appeared on the Australian television show Australia's Got Talent. His other TV appearances include Ripley's Believe It or Not! (USA), Don't Try This at Home (UK), The Sideshow (Australia), ""Guinness O Mundo dos Recordes"" (Spain) and ""Lo show dei record"" (Italian version of"
"which was released in 2010. Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow is a British stand-up comedy television series hosted by comedian Michael McIntyre from different venues around the United Kingdom and Ireland. The first series was broadcast with six episodes in 2009. Each episode features a routine from McIntyre, followed by three other comedians before the headline act. A second six episode series in the same format followed in 2010. A special one-hour Christmas episode transmitted on 25 December 2011. The series was commissioned in February 2009 following the success of ""Live at the Apollo"". Hosted by stand-up"
"touch"". ""Rove Daily"" writes that ""Dave Thornton is one of Australia’s most exciting young stand-up comics"". Dave Thornton Dave Thornton (born 13 December 1979) is a stand-up comedian, actor and radio and TV presenter. He has performed stand-up comedy throughout Australia, in Edinburgh, Singapore and New York. He has also appeared on Australian television and radio. Thornton began working in stand-up comedy at the Geelong heats of Raw Comedy in 2002. He debuted his solo hour-long show ""Euro:mission,"" which was based on his experiences as a backpacking traveler, at the 2007 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, where he was nominated for"
"in 1993. MacAulay has gone on to be a regular performer at the Edinburgh Fringe and at comedy festivals worldwide. He has presented BBC Radio Scotland's morning show since 1997, and for BBC TV he hosted one series of the talk show ""McCoist and MacAulay"" (with retired footballer Ally McCoist) and two seasons of ""Life According to Fred"". He has appeared as a guest on comedy quiz programmes ""They Think It's All Over"", ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"", ""The Unbelievable Truth"", ""Just a Minute"", ""QI"", ""The News Quiz"" and ""Mock the Week"", and made a return to ""Have I"
"Miss Scotland. His only son, Keith, died at the age of 20 in 2001 in a road accident when his motorcycle was hit by a driver on the A8. Chick Young Charles ""Chick"" Young (born 4 May 1951) is a professional association football pundit who regularly appears for BBC Scotland on ""Sportscene"" and ""Sportsound"". He is known for his trademark laugh and speech patterns, which have made him a popular target for lampooning on the BBC Scotland sports comedy ""Only an Excuse?"" Young has become a prominent football commentator with the BBC. He started hosting episodes of ""Sportsound"" in October"
"the world as a Guest Entertainer onboard various Cruise Ships. William Caulfield William Caulfield is a Northern Irish writer, actor, comedian and TV star. He has achieved popularity through his TV, radio and theatre shows. He was educated at Kings Park Primary, Lurgan Junior High School and Lurgan College His popularity began on BBC Radio Ulster in 1991 when he began writing and broadcasting humorous monologues as ""The Bard of Tyrone."" Over a period of six years he wrote and performed over 200 poems. As a direct result of this he was asked to appear at the Belfast Festival at"
"'Alex Munro Way' in March 2014. Alex Munro (comedian) Alex Munro (6 March 1911 – 20 January 1986) was a Scottish actor and comedian. Born as Alexander Neilson Horsburgh in Shettleston, Glasgow, he joined his brother Archie and sister June in an acrobatic act called ""The Star Trio"". They later changed their name to ""The Horsburgh Brothers and Agnes"" and became part of Florrie Forde's music hall company with Flanagan and Allen. During World War Two, Munro toured with the RAF show, ""Contact"", and had his own BBC radio series ""The Size of It"". He headlined in a number of"
"his father, Safran is a German Jewish, and through his mother descends from Polish Jews from Kałuszyn. John Safran John Michael Safran (; born 13 August 1972) is an Australian radio personality, satirist, documentary maker and author, known for combining humour with religious, political and ethnic issues. First gaining fame appearing in ""Race Around the World"" in 1997, Safran went on to produce a series of documentaries, television shows and host radio programs. Safran is known for his television stunts, which include placing a fatwa on Australian television host Rove McManus, sneaking nine young men into an exclusive Melbourne nightclub"
"""The Footy Show"" broadcasts live from Perth, Hobart, Adelaide and Sydney; the annual ""Grand Final"" specials in front of 13,000 people at Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena; the high-rating shows broadcast live from the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London in 2001 and 2005; and ""The Footy Show World Cup Spectacular"", broadcast live from the classic Prinzregententheater in Munich, Germany, in 2006. Over the years he has also been the audience warm-up comedian for shows including ""The X Factor,"" ""1 vs. 100,"" ""Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?,"" ""Backberner,"" ""Unreal TV,"" ""Quiz Master,"" ""Australia's Brainiest Celebrity Specials,"" ""In Melbourne Tonight,"" ""Comedy"
"himself as a ""conspiracy realist"" and adopted this title for one of his comedy tours in 2011. Hughes's stand-up has been featured at such festivals as the Edinburgh Comedy Festival in Scotland, the Just for Laughs in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Adelaide Fringe Festival in Australia and the Hull Comedy Festival held in Kingston upon Hull, England. Hughes' stand-up has been featured on television shows such as the BBC series Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow in 2009 and Live at the Apollo in 2011. He also appeared on The Comedy Channel's ""Cracker Night"" in 2010 and"
"Dave Allen (comedian) David Tynan O'Mahony (6 July 193610 March 2005), better known as Dave Allen, was an Irish observational comedian and satirist. Initially becoming known in Australia during 1963–64, Allen made regular television appearances in the United Kingdom from the later 1960s and until the mid-1980s. The BBC aired his ""Dave Allen Show"" 1972–1986, which was also exported to several other European countries. His career had a major resurgence during the late 1980s and early 1990s. At the height of his career he was Britain's most controversial comedian, regularly provoking indignation at his frequent highlighting of political hypocrisy and"
"Des McLean (comedian) Des McLean is a Scottish stand-up comedian, actor, and a presenter for radio and television from Glasgow. Billy Connolly has cited McLean as his favourite comedian. McLean started working in comedy in 1999, and was a finalist in both the BBC New Comedy Awards and the Channel 4 programme ""So You Think You’re Funny"". In 2002 McLean made his debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his one-man show ""Des McLean 5 Stars"" and appeared on the BBC series ""The Live Floor Show"". The following year he performed at the Glasgow International and New York comedy festivals."
"John Safran John Michael Safran (; born 13 August 1972) is an Australian radio personality, satirist, documentary maker and author, known for combining humour with religious, political and ethnic issues. First gaining fame appearing in ""Race Around the World"" in 1997, Safran went on to produce a series of documentaries, television shows and host radio programs. Safran is known for his television stunts, which include placing a fatwa on Australian television host Rove McManus, sneaking nine young men into an exclusive Melbourne nightclub by disguising them as members of American nu metal band Slipknot, running through Jerusalem wearing nothing but"
"a panellist on the UK comedy show ""QI"". He also made an appearance on Channel 7's ""SlideShow"". In November 2014, he appeared as a late replacement on the inaugural cruise of the Australian performing arts on the along with, among others, Cheryl Barker, David Hobson, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Simon Tedeschi, Elaine Paige, Marina Prior, and Jonathon Welch. Colin Lane Colin Stuart Lane (born 25 March 1965) is an Australian comedian, actor and TV host living in Melbourne, best known for being one-half of comedy duo Lano and Woodley. Lane performed with fellow comedian Frank Woodley as part of the duo"
"the opening ceremony of Disneyland Paris for ITV. He later worked for LBC radio. Nowadays he mainly works as a voiceover artist, commentating on such events as the ""Royal Variety Performance"" and the ""British Comedy Awards"". He also presents a weekly show on Scotland 69am (www.scotland69am4u.com). Steve Jones (English presenter) David ""Steve"" Jones (born 7 June 1945) is an English disc jockey, television presenter, Voiceover artist and former musician. He is most well known for presenting gameshow ""The Pyramid Game"" from 1981 to 1984 and 1989. The game had previously been part of LWT's ""The Steve Jones Game Show"" in"
"has toured both nationally and internationally, and draws inspiration from Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Don Adams, Peter Sellers, Jerry Lewis and Laurel and Hardy. Woodley played a television vet named ""Frank Woodley"" in the twelfth episode of the 1998 Australia television series ""The Games"". Woodley has made regular guest appearances on Australian television, including ""Spicks and Specks"", ""Good News Week"", ""Thank God You're Here"", ""The Sideshow"", ""Big Question"", ""Rove Live"", ""Australia's Brainiest Comedian"" & ""Show Me the Movie!"". In 2008, he appeared in a series of television advertisements for Metlink promoting public transport in Melbourne, in particular buses. In 2007,"