"to 2012, and is the central character in the BBC2 sitcom ""Count Arthur Strong"", which first aired on 8 July 2013. Count Arthur is based on many influences and people from Delaney’s youth from the 1960s onward: next-door neighbours, relatives, and eccentric shopkeepers. Delaney created Count Arthur in the 1980s, when he was a drama student at Central School of Speech and Drama in London, and performed him at the end-of-term show, having drawn inspiration from characters he met during his childhood. But he put the character to one side for several years, during which he worked as an actor,"
"Rob Delaney Rob Delaney (born January 19, 1977) is an American comedian, actor, and writer. He is widely known as the co-star and co-writer of the TV show ""Catastrophe"", as well as a minor role in the 2018 blockbuster action-comedy ""Deadpool 2"". Delaney was raised in Marblehead, Massachusetts. He attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and graduated with a degree in musical theater in 1999. Delaney first came to the attention of the public via Twitter, on which he started posting in 2009. By 2016, Delaney had over 1.2 million followers. While other comics were hesitant to"
"the first presenter on the CBeebies ""Bed Time Stories"" programme to tell a story in Makaton , which he used to use to communicate with his late son Henry. Rob Delaney Rob Delaney (born January 19, 1977) is an American comedian, actor, and writer. He is widely known as the co-star and co-writer of the TV show ""Catastrophe"", as well as a minor role in the 2018 blockbuster action-comedy ""Deadpool 2"". Delaney was raised in Marblehead, Massachusetts. He attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and graduated with a degree in musical theater in 1999. Delaney first came"
"John Mulaney John Edmund Mulaney (born August 26, 1982) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer. He is best known for his work as a writer on ""Saturday Night Live"" and as a stand-up comedian with stand-up specials ""The Top Part"", ""New in Town"", ""The Comeback Kid,"" and ""Kid Gorgeous,"" for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special in 2018. He was the creator and star of the short-lived Fox sitcom ""Mulaney"", a semi-autobiographical series about his fictional life. Mulaney also frequently performs as a character called George St. Geegland in"
"with the David Tattoo"". Super Dave Osborne Super Dave Osborne is a character created and played by comedian Bob Einstein. Einstein's comedic depiction is of a naive but optimistic stuntman who frequently appears injured when his stunts go spectacularly wrong. Super Dave is billed as an ""accomplished"" stuntman, though he rarely succeeds when performing the stunts depicted on-screen. Typically the character will perform outrageous daredevil stunts which often go disastrously awry and result in the appearance of grievous bodily injury. These include such mishaps as riding inside the hub of a giant yo-yo suspended from a crane (the yo-yo broke"
"such as Marlon Brando, Michael Caine, Jack Nicholson, and, idiosyncratically, UK football pundit Jimmy Hill. ""Stella Street""s depiction of celebrities is mainly rooted in the popular stereotypes surrounding them. For example, ""Stella Street""s Jack Nicholson is an inveterate womaniser, drug taker, and has a tacky line in Hawaiian shirts. Michael Caine is seen as an awkward wanna-be cognoscente in horn-rimmed glasses and a shock of ginger hair. Dirk Bogarde is a posh buffoon only interested in his rose garden and ""Country Life"" magazine. Al Pacino is deluded that he is a ""tall actor, like Danny DeVito and Dustin Hoffman"", despite"
"Mulaney Mulaney is an American sitcom that aired on Fox from October 5, 2014 to February 15, 2015. Stand-up comedian and former ""Saturday Night Live"" writer John Mulaney created the show and starred as a fictionalized version of himself. At the beginning of each episode, and sometimes throughout, Mulaney would perform stand-up comedy to the studio audience. The show suffered from low ratings and poor critical reviews, and was cancelled in March 2015. John Mulaney is a comedian living in New York City with his roommates—Jane (Nasim Pedrad), a personal trainer with emotional issues, and Motif (Seaton Smith), a fellow"
"as a commentator on ""Best Week Ever"", Mulaney auditioned for ""Saturday Night Live"" in August 2008, along with Kroll and T.J. Miller. Mulaney won a spot on the writing team, where he remained for six seasons. He also occasionally appeared on the show's ""Weekend Update"" segment. He and ""SNL"" actor Bill Hader co-created the recurring ""SNL"" character Stefon. Mulaney was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series with the ""SNL"" writing staff from 2009–2012. Mulaney won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards with Justin"
"Other regular characters featured included former child star Gary Coleman (of ""Diff'rent Strokes""), Big Missy (Martin's alleged girlfriend whom he met online, created and written by show writer and frequent on-air character actor Stewart Engesser), Rael of the Ralien movement who claimed the 1st false prophet under the illuminati God Amon Re. Later, writer Stewart Engesser starred as the funnyman parody of real legendary actor Michael Caine, a role he continues to play occasionally on Martin's podcast, Infected. In early episodes, the show also highlighted regulars such as Scary Gary, who showed grotesque segments such as a skin-implemented cellphone, and"
"have the stereotypical physique required in the industry and instead exploit their entertainment abilities. Wrestlers who fall under this category are Scottish comedian and actor Grado, Doink The Clown which was majorly portrayed by Matt Osborne until 2013, Ring of Honor's Colt Cabana, Santino Marella, Japanese Wrestlers Stalker Ichikawa, Gran Naniwa and Kuishinbo Kamen, Charlie Haas during his impersonations run, and WWE's 1990s turkey character Gobbledy Gooker. Damien Sandow is also in this category, he always mocks what ever his opponents do. Usually a villainous gimmick, initiated by Gorgeous George. Wrestlers that followed on with this trend include Bobby Roode,"
"Dave Courtney David John Courtney (born 17 February 1959) is an English self-proclaimed former gangster who has become both an author and celebrity. Author Bernard O'Mahoney and Frankie Fraser (the former member of the Richardson gang) have accused Courtney of embellishing and fabricating his criminal record and position in the underworld; however, Courtney has denied overstating his past. Courtney was born in Bermondsey, London to Teresa (née Dargan) and Patrick W J Courtney, who married in 1954 in Camberwell. Courtney often focuses on his links with gangsters such as Reggie Kray and Lenny McLean, although in the case of the"
"Super Dave Osborne Super Dave Osborne is a character created and played by comedian Bob Einstein. Einstein's comedic depiction is of a naive but optimistic stuntman who frequently appears injured when his stunts go spectacularly wrong. Super Dave is billed as an ""accomplished"" stuntman, though he rarely succeeds when performing the stunts depicted on-screen. Typically the character will perform outrageous daredevil stunts which often go disastrously awry and result in the appearance of grievous bodily injury. These include such mishaps as riding inside the hub of a giant yo-yo suspended from a crane (the yo-yo broke free of its string"
"costume might be termed ""grunge fop"", he had the mannerisms down so well that the initial rushes of the first film upset executives at the Walt Disney Company. His interpretation prevailed, creating a new generation of fans of the fop. Hugh Grant, the British actor, is somewhat foppish in his style. In Channel 4's ""Vic Reeves Big Night Out"", character Graham Lister regularly refers to Reeves as ""the Fop"". In the British reality television show ""The Only Way Is Essex"", the character of Joey Essex can be seen as a fop and dandy. In Quentin Tarantino's 2012 slavery epic ""Django"
"infamous mugshots. ""Saturday Night Live"" also did a parody of this show on the season 29 episode hosted by ""Will and Grace"" star Megan Mullally, with Phil Gordon played by Chris Parnell and comedian Kevin Pollak played by Jimmy Fallon. ""MADtv"" did a parody of this show as a ninth and tenth season recurring sketch called ""Celebrity Quarters"" (based on the drinking game ""quarters"") with Ron Pederson as Dave Foley and, replacing Phil Gordon, was Nick Nolte (played by Ike Barinholtz). For the November 3, 2005 episode of the sitcom ""Joey"", Foley and Gordon played themselves in a fictitious tournament"
"was a secret character on the PlayStation game ""Grind Session"". His character farted while grinding. Dave Carnie Dave Carnie (born December 14, 1969), is a former editor-in-chief of ""Big Brother"" and current writer for numerous publications. Carnie writes freelance and has had articles published in ""Rolling Stone"", ""Hustler"", ""The Skateboard Mag"", ""Snowboard Magazine"", and ""Bizarre"". Carnie also helped co-write a couple of short films with Spike Jonze (whom he met through fellow ""Big Brother"" editor Jeff Tremaine). Through his work on the ""Big Brother"" videos he was also one of the original creators of the television show ""Jackass"" and has"
"Steven Molaro Steven Molaro, (February 16, 1972) also known as Steve Molaro, is an American television producer and writer. He has worked on such productions as ""Freddie"", ""The Class"", ""Complete Savages"" and the Dan Schneider-produced series ""All That"", ""The Amanda Show"", ""What I Like About You"", ""Drake & Josh"", ""Zoey 101"" and ""iCarly"". Since 2007, he has been a producer/writer on the sitcom ""The Big Bang Theory"". Molaro also co-created its prequel spinoff, ""Young Sheldon"", with Chuck Lorre. He is a native of Queens, New York. Molaro has been nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series two times"
"Briony Behets, Peta Toppano, Diane Craig, Ivar Kants, Gerard Kennedy, Patrick Phillips, Cornelia Frances, Serge Lazareff, Sigrid Thornton, Anna Hruby, Jill Forster, Wayne Jarratt, Joanna Lockwood and Penne Hackforth-Jones. Bellamy (TV series) Bellamy was an Australian television series made by the Reg Grundy Organisation for the Ten Network in 1981. The series focused on a maverick cop named Steve Bellamy (John Stanton). His partner was Detective Mitchell (Tim Elston). Recurring characters in the series were the disapproving Daley (James Condon) who appeared in 21 episodes, the forensics technician Clem (Brian Young) who was in 15 of the episodes. Adam Garnett"
"and with the lamp-posts wrongly highlighted in red. Arthur Delaney Arthur McEvoy Delaney born 9 December 1927, Clifford Street, Chorlton upon Medlock, Manchester, Lancashire - died 17 April 1987 (Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester) was an English painter whose scenes of Manchester life were influenced by those of L. S. Lowry, gaining some popularity since his death. He is alleged to be the illegitimate son of comedian Frank Randle (born Arthur Hughes). His mother, Genevieve Delaney (also known as Willis (born Kelshaw)) was a music hall artiste who appeared with her sister, Mary Monica Kelshaw (also known as Lee); their act"
"the camera seems to linger on Durand, who conveys malice with just a look or tilt of his head. This role should give Durand's career a well-deserved boost"". Following his demise, Whitney Matheson of ""USA Today"" noted that ""it seems Keamy, ""Lost""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s camouflaged baddie, is turning into a bit of a cult figure."" A ""hilarious"" blog containing Keamy digitally edited into various photographs, posters and art titled ""Keamy's Paradise"" was set up in early June 2008. TV Squad's Bob Sassone thought that the blog was ""a great idea"" and ""funny"" and he called Keamy ""the Boba Fett of ""Lost"""". In"
"Gary Delaney Gary Justin Delaney (born 16 April 1973) is an English writer and stand-up comedian. Delaney was born in Solihull. He writes for Birmingham-based FM radio station Kerrang! 105.2 and also appeared in the horror-comedy film ""Trash House"". A lot of his material was allegedly plagiarised on the humour website Sickipedia. When Delaney complained, the site removed the material and replaced it with a notice saying ""joke removed due to a copyright complaint by Gary Delaney"" and a link to his website. He received abuse and death threats from the site's users. However, his actions led the website to"
"Kaye's character Dennis Pennis was strongly reminiscent of Gunston. It later had a very successful revival thanks to the British satirist Sacha Baron Cohen through his characters Ali G, Borat and Brüno. Canadian comedian and actor Martin Short also employed a similar technique with his best-known character, the fawning, morbidly obese celebrity interviewer Jiminy Glick; another notable resemblance between Glick and Norman is the Glick show's ""fairytale"" segment ""Lalawood Fables"", which is very similar to the ""Norman's Dreamtime"" segments of the Gunston show, in which the host reads a satirical mock-fable (intercut with pre-produced vision) to a group of assembled"
"hard times' which I have 'Drawn some fine lines' which I definitely have, and 'No time for shoe shines' when you're trying to make a living."" ""Wild Children"" is actually about the post-war children growing up in other countries and getting their images—from American anti-heroes such as those portrayed by James Dean, Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger and playwright Tennessee Williams. ""The Great Deception"" is according to biographer, Richie Yorke: ""One of the most stinging indictments from any observer, let alone a rock artist, of the tragic hypocrisy of so many participants in the sub-culture, in particular the big-time rock stars"
"Devaney, model and actor Bram Blankestijn as The Stalker, Zjon Smaal as Tony Scibelli and Robbert van den Bergh as Ray Court (who, in this version, was slightly based on the character Spencer Reid from Criminal Minds). Roy Kullick assumed the role of Ray Court on 25 July 2016. Paul Donkers took over the role of Tony Scibelli at the end of September 2016. Donkers left the show again in May 2017, after which Zjon Smaal returned to portray Tony Scibelli, which he did until the final performance. The show closed at the Beatrix Theatre on 16 July 2017 and"
"get in trouble, go missing, or fall victim to a villains' latest scheme, Melon and Bitterbug (Lefuneste) take their places temporarily. In the show, Walter and Bitterbug replaced spoofs of character from pop culture such as Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Hulk, James Bond, Indiana Jones, Kirk and Spock, Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, Tarzan, Mad Max, two of the Power Rangers, Jason Lee Scott and Billy Cranston, the Terminator, Fox Mulder, John Rambo, Little Red Riding Hood and Casper the Friendly Ghost. Unlike most heroes, Walter is a dim-witted, overweight jolly French American time traveller with a large melon-shaped nose and"
"He will often go to great lengths to get as drunk as he can as cheaply as he can. The list of TV shows in which Count Arthur claims to have appeared is remarkably similar to Delaney's own career. However, the one role that Count Arthur speaks about wherever possible, is what he calls the """"Bridge Up The River Kwai"""", where he claims to have appeared alongside Alec Guinness, apparently resenting the fact that Guinness got the part instead of him, although he does point out that he took over the role for the musical version. He also seems resentful"
"American adults--Super Chief (named after the Santa Fe Railroad's crack passenger train) whose voice was an air horn of a single-chime railroad locomotive, and his translator Broken Feather. Another adult lending a hand was Professor Todd Goodheart with his supercomputer, the Weisenheimer. The ""Villainous Meanie"" of the show, Belly Laguna (who was modeled after Hungarian-American actor Bela Lugosi, in his famous ""Dracula"" role) always tried to thwart the Funny Company's plans (for his own profit), but never with any success. Another, less frequently seen adversary was a German-accented mad scientist type, Professor Ludwig Von Upp with his assistant Hans Von"
"Count Arthur Strong (TV series) Count Arthur Strong is a BBC sitcom written by Steve Delaney and Graham Linehan. Delaney portrays the title character in the series, a stage creation of Delaney's who has also featured in the BBC Radio 4 programme ""Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!"" The series begins with the meeting of Count Arthur Strong, an eccentric, septuagenarian, former music hall performer, with Michael Baker, the bookish son of his former comedy partner. The television project heralds a new chapter in the life of Count Arthur Strong as compared to the character in the radio series: none of"
"2013, he described himself as a ""right-wing libertarian"". Gary Delaney Gary Justin Delaney (born 16 April 1973) is an English writer and stand-up comedian. Delaney was born in Solihull. He writes for Birmingham-based FM radio station Kerrang! 105.2 and also appeared in the horror-comedy film ""Trash House"". A lot of his material was allegedly plagiarised on the humour website Sickipedia. When Delaney complained, the site removed the material and replaced it with a notice saying ""joke removed due to a copyright complaint by Gary Delaney"" and a link to his website. He received abuse and death threats from the site's"
"Stepford Wives"" (and also borrows from ""Jurassic Park""). From the first episode of series 3 onwards, this also began to include the recent ""Doctor Who"" spin-off ""Torchwood"" and the ITV series ""Primeval"", with references to ""baby dinosaurs falling through a hole in time"" and ""the sheer amount of paranormal activity in the Cardiff area alone ... starting to threaten the Earth's plausibility shield"". Episode 6 of that series also parodied the tendency in British sci-fi for attempts to take over the world to start in Britain, with the chief villain (played by Tenth Doctor actor David Tennant) stating ""Funnily enough,"
"five-minute pieces of John Sessions, Phil Cornwell and Peter Richardson talking about featured clips from the original series. Stella Street depicts its celebrities as finding refuge from the madness of their famous lives in the banality of suburbia and the ""everyday"" situations they may come across, albeit tinged with a hint of surrealism and comedy referenced from their own stereotyped behaviour. Examples include Roger Moore visiting David Bowie at Christmas in order to give him a face flannel as a present. A game of ""Monopoly"" between the celebs. Michael Caine trying to instruct Dean the builder on how to build"
"'30s"", which he developed along with fellow comedian Nick Kroll. Following his tenure at ""Saturday Night Live"", Mulaney contributed writing to other TV projects including ""Maya & Marty"", ""Documentary Now!"", ""Oh, Hello On Broadway"" and the ""Comedy Central Roast of James Franco"". He also acted in supporting roles on television shows such as ""Crashing"", ""Portlandia"", and ""Difficult People"". Mulaney currently provides the voice of a lead character on the animated Netflix series ""Big Mouth"" alongside his writing partner Nick Kroll, who co-created the show. In 2018, Mulaney provided the voice of Spider-Ham in the """" animated film. After first working"
"Martin Delaney (actor) Martin Delaney is a British actor, best known for his work from ‘Renford Rejects’ to ‘Now You See Me 2’ ""Zero Dark Thirty"", ""Judas Ghost"" and his lead role in British comedy film ""Amar Akbar & Tony"". Martin Delaney was born in Kent, England. His father is from a large Irish family and his mother was born in Burma (Myanmar), moving to the UK at a young age. Martin is one of four children. His sister Jennie is a singer and performer and his brothers Mike Delaney and Pat Delaney are both heavily involved in football across"
"Jack Campbell (actor) Jack Campbell (born November 2, 1970) is an Australian actor. He is best known for his role of Dr. Steve Taylor in Australia’s number one medical drama, ""All Saints"", for Network Seven and his portrayal of infamous gangster ""Big Jim"" Devine in the Nine Network top rating drama series """", based on the criminal underworld of Sydney in the 1920s. Jack Campbell was born to farmers and graziers, Bruce and Ilma Campbell on November 2, 1970 in Sydney, Australia. The youngest of three boys, Campbell was raised on a wheat and cattle farm in the Australian Outback"