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Essex-born Alan Davies had a well established career in stand-up comedy before making the crossover to television. He secured his first stand-up job five months after leaving college and subsequently made many stand-up appearances on television, but mainstream success took several years to achieve. Alan won the Time Out Award for Best Comic in 1991 and the work offers began to increase slowly, but surely. In 1995, he appeared on the spoof travel show, One for the Road. He got his own radio show, The Alan Davies Show, in 1998. Alan used his new-found success to launch his acting career, appearing in Jonathan Creek in 1997 and A Many Splintered Thing in 1998. His performance was well received and signified a change in the pace of Alan’s career trajectory. Jonathan Creek remains a firm ratings success. Four series of the show - now co-starring Julia Sawalha - have been made so far. Maintaining his links with comedy, Alan presented a documentary series on stand-up comedians in 2000. He also took a cameo role in Dog Eat Dog - a British film released in 2001. He is perhaps best know these days as the foil to Stephen Fry in BBC2’s QI.

Patrick Kielty or known by his fellow Irish as just "Paddy" (born 31 January 1971) is a Northern Irish television personality. He was born in Dundrum, County Down, Northern Ireland and raised a Roman Catholic. Patrick's career started while he was still a student at Queen's University of Belfast. He became well known locally for his stand-up comedy routines at The Empire pub comedy nights (branded as The Empire Laughs Back ). In 1993 Patrick Kielty presented the show SUS on UTV. He later became the warm-up act for a BBC Northern Ireland programme Anderson on the Box presented by local personality Gerry Anderson. When this show was axed, he presented its replacement, PK Tonight . Although this ran for only a year and was only shown in Northern Ireland, it did attract the attention of London-based broadcasters and he graduated to presenting programmes such as Last Chance Lottery and Patrick Kielty Almost Live which were shown throughout the UK. He did an impersonation of Martin McGuinness singing the Simon and Garfunkel song, "Bridge over Troubled Water". McGuinness and Art Garfunkel are said to have similar features. He continues to appear on national television, although he has left much of his political comedy background behind, tending to favour light-entertainment shows such as the BBCs Fame Academy and Love Island for ITV in both 2005 and 2006. Also in 2006, Patrick hosted a segment on ITV's coverage of The Prince's Trust 30th Birthday LIVE , along side Kate Thornton. In 2006 Patrick returned to the stand-up scene with a brand new UK tour. A DVD, filmed at Belfast's Waterfront Hall was later released.

Dara started his career in television as a children's presenter on RTÉ whilst performing his first stand-up gigs on the Irish comedy circuit. After studying at University College, Dublin, where he did a degree in Mathematical Physics, he spent three years as a presenter on the bilingual (Irish and English) children's programme Echo Island. But he came to prominence as a team captain on the topical panel show Don't Feed The Gondolas (1998-2000). He left the show midway through its fifth season to perform at the Adelaide and Melbourne comedy festivals. Dara later co-founded the televison production company Happy Endings Productions, whose most famous show in Ireland is The Panel (2003-onwards). The show has become one of the most talked about in Ireland and was twice nominated for the Best Entertainment show IFTA (Irish Film and Televison Award). His big break in UK television came in 2003 when he became host of BBC2's Live Floor Show. This was led to an appearance as guest and, ultimately, four appearances as guest host of the popular news quiz, Have I Got News For You. By this time he was based in the UK full-time and gigging there constantly. This paid off when he sold out the entire run in Edinburgh in 2002, a feat he was to repeat for the next three years until, by 2005, he was the biggest selling solo stand-up comedy show on the Edinburgh Fringe. The show was recorded for the BBC1 series Jack Dee Live at the Apollo. Dara has been a regular on television's top stand-up shows and has made regular appearances on, among others, Friday Night with Jonathon Ross, Parkinson and QI

Star of "Dead Ringers", Jon Culshaw has a catalogue of over 350 impressions and is regarded by many to be the best young impressionist in the UK. He is brilliant for award ceremonies, after-dinner speaking and personal appearances. Jon Culshaw always creates a great impression. He first proved it as the overall winner, ahead of 8000 entrants on BBC Radio One's "Talent '93" featured on Steve Wright In The Afternoon. The following year Jon joined the team of impressionists on "Spitting Image" where he provided the voices to over 40 characters including Frank Bruno, David Frost, Kenneth Clark, Michael Portillo, Bill Clinton, Mr Motivator, Liam Gallagher and many more. Jon made international headlines by calling the switchboard of 10 Downing Street and fooling the operators with his 'William Hague' impression. Jon then found to his delight that he was talking directly to Prime Minister Tony Blair, live on London's Capital FM, from 10 Downing Street. Jon's many TV appearances include - "They Think It's All Over", "Never Mind the Buzzcocks", "Call My Bluff," "Talking Telephone Numbers," and "The Big Stage". Jon has made numerous radio appearances including a radio series entitled "And This is Them" for BBC Radio 2 via TalkBack, and a third series of "It's Been A Bad Week" for Celador Productions, a further series is planned for this Autumn. Jon is part of the much acclaimed award winning radio 4 series "Dead Ringers" which was also made into a television series. The programme won the Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Best Radio Programme 2000, the Sony Gold Radio Academy Award for Best Comedy Show and the British Comedy Awards 2001 Best Radio Comedy. Within each programme he can be heard providing his highly praised "wind-up" phone calls. 

Twenty-five years ago, Rory Bremner performed his first public impression and nine years later, he starred in his first BBC series Now For Something Else, a variety sketch show where he did impressions of Sean Connery and Terry Wogan. Today, he is widely rated as Britain’s sharpest, with his Channel Four show Bremner, Bird & Fortune regularly winning awards as the best satire on television. He does impressions of more than a hundred people, from Tony Blair to Mohamed al Fayed. Rory was educated at Wellington College and went on to attend King’s College, London, where he graduated with an honours degree in French, German and imitating lecturers! While still at university, he performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and began his career on the satirical radio shows News Revue and Weekending, before embarking on a seven-year spell at the BBC. Since then, he’s appeared in countless comedy shows from Have I Got News For You to Whose Line Is It Anyway? Along with Comic Relief, They Think It’s All Over and It’ll Be Alright On The Night and has been interviewed more than any other performer by both Wogan and PARKINSON. He has now written and starred in over one hundred programmes for Channel Four, starting with Rory Bremner, Who Else? and including the specials: From Blair To Here, Blair Did It All Go Wrong?, My Government And I (2000) Geoffrey Malet – A Hero Of Our Time (2001), Bremner, Bird & Fortune At Her Majesty’s Pleasure (to coincide with the Queen’s Jubilee) and the most recent Between Iraq And A Hard Place. Elsewhere, he appeared regularly on Breakfast With Frost, has written and performed the BBC radio series Some Of Our Pilots Are Missing and writes articles and diaries for The New Statesman, The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Times and The London Evening Standard. 

Ed Byrne is unrivalled as an observational stand up. His material may come from everyday life - mobile phones, nicknames, relationships and the like - but his skill at identifying the absurdity within the subject and applying his eloquent wit is anything but commonplace. Unlike others on the circuit, Byrne doesn't fall back on any concept of Irish charm. With his material, he doesn't have to. If you haven't seen him for a while, you might find he's a little more vitriolic than in the past, but the insouciance is still around and about. A regular performer in places as diverse as Dubai, Dublin and Singapore, he certainly has plenty of experiences to consider, but whether he'll hone his remarks into a 22-carat one-liner or set off into a grade A rant all depends on how he's feeling on the night.
Byrne has performed six total sell-out Edinburgh Festival runs (including 2004) and three sell-out UK tours. He has also developed huge success on the international circuit where he has performed to capacity audiences in Canada, France, Australia, New Zealand and USA. After making his TV acting debut on the sitcom phenomenon, Father Ted, Ed has since garnered a raft of major broadcast credits, including five US appearances on Late Night With Conan O'Brien (NBC). But like all great comedians whose first passion was - and ever shall be - he saves his best stuff for the stage.

Patrick started off on the glamorous Irish/Iranian/Geordie stand-up circuit where he developed his chatty & friendly, story telling style. Now a regular on the UK comedy circuit, playing venues such as the Comedy Store, Jongleurs, The Glee club to name just a few, Patrick has also performed in Europe and on the International comedy scene, including shows in France (Paris 'Hotel Du Nordi' & The Alps), Monaco, Germany (Berlin), Belgium (Brussels & Antwerp), United Arab Emirates (Dubai, Doha & Abu Dhabi) and Bahrain. Patrick regularly performs in most comedy clubs across England from Newcastle to Devon, as well as in Scotland, Ireland, Wales & Jersey. He has also done a host of University network shows for Avalon, Paramount and Off The Kerb Events. As well as a regular TV & studio warm up - on shows such as 'Friday Night Jonathan Ross', 'The IT Crowd', 'The Lenny Henry Show', 'Davina', 'Open House with Gloria Hunerford', as well as a regular MC at selected venues on the comedy circuit. He's also appeared as a contributor to nine out of twelve episodes of Channel Five's 'That's so Last Week'. He has also appeared on BBC's Destination Unknown', 'Malai Monologues' and as a panel member on the comedy quiz show 'Sudoko Street Challenge'. An original writer and clever improviser skilled in audience interaction, Patrick's versatility, likeability and engaging stage presence has popular appeal, be it, stand-up, comedy character, host, presenter!