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In 2012, the Cambridge Footlights celebrated 50 years at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The 2012 show "Perfect Strangers" had a cast of five made up of outgoing president Phil Wang ( Chortle Student Comedian of the Year 2010 and Comedy Central Funniest Student 2011), Pierre Novellie , Jason Forbes , George Potts and Emma Powell.
The ADC Theatre is the home of the Footlights. The Cambridge Footlights, commonly referred to simply as Footlights, [ 1] is a student sketch comedy troupe located in Cambridge, England. Footlights was founded in 1883, and is one of Britain's oldest student sketch comedy troupes. The comedy society is run by the students of Cambridge University.
Pappy's Fun Club – Pappy's Fun Club. 2008. David O'Doherty – Let's Comedy. Rhod Gilbert – Rhod Gilbert and the Award-winning Mince Pie. Russell Kane – Gaping Flaws. Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler – Double Down Hearts. Edinburgh Comedy Awards (known as the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards since 2010) Year. Main prize winner.
1. Joseph Owen Thomas (born 28 October 1983) [ 2] is an English actor and comedian. He played Simon Cooper in the E4 sitcom The Inbetweeners (2008–2010) and its two film adaptations, The Inbetweeners Movie (2011) and The Inbetweeners 2 (2014). After The Inbetweeners concluded, Thomas remained connected to Channel 4, joining the cast of comedy ...
1957. Comedian, writer, actor, novelist, half of Fry and Laurie, Jeeves in Jeeves and Wooster and presenter of QI. Graeme Garden. 1943. Comedy writer and performer, illustrator, member of The Goodies. Bamber Gascoigne. 1935. Television presenter, author, known for hosting University Challenge. Mel Giedroyc.
Clive Stuart Anderson (born 10 December 1952) [1] is an English television and radio presenter, comedian, writer, and former barrister.Winner of a British Comedy Award in 1991, [2] Anderson began experimenting with comedy and writing comedic scripts during his 15-year legal career, before becoming host of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, initially a radio show on BBC Radio 4 in 1988, before moving to ...
While studying for her PhD at Cambridge, Smith wrote several plays which were staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Cambridge Footlights.After some time working in Scotland, she returned to Cambridge to concentrate on her writing, in particular, focussing on short stories and freelancing as the fiction reviewer for The Scotsman newspaper. [5]
Penny Dwyer. Penelope Rosemary Dwyer (24 September 1953 – 4 September 2003) was a British comedy writer. She was a member of the Cambridge Footlights revue The Cellar Tapes which won the inaugural Perrier Comedy Awards in 1981. The other performers in The Cellar Tapes were Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson, Tony Slattery and Paul Shearer.