Entertaining after-dinner speakers from Celebrity Business Speakers - Please contact us as above, giving the details of your event and the type of speaker you would prefer, we will offer a selection of the most appropriate entertainers for you to choose from.

Ian Hislop is a writer and broadcaster. He has been Editor of "Private Eye" since 1986. As well as writing regularly for The Spectator, The Financial Times, The Guardian and The Mail on Sunday, he has reviewed books for The Observer, The Literary Review and Time Out. He was also a weekly columnist on The Listener. He is also known to millions as team captain on Have I Got News For You, which has won numerous awards, including a BAFTA for Best Light Entertainment. Ian has made countless television and radio appearances as panellist, essayist and presenter. Credits range from Newsnight Review, Question Time and University Challenge ('The Professionals'), to series on the history of tax, the Victorians and Middle England. He has also taken part in Who Do You Think You Are? and presented The Lost Generation. As a writer, Ian progressed from Spitting Image to sketches for Harry Enfield and television plays for Maureen Lipman and Dawn French. He also co-wrote the family sitcom, My Dad's The Prime Minister.

Clive Anderson was born in Stanmore, Middlesex in 1952. After studying law at Cambridge University, where he was also President of the Footlights revue group, he practised as a barrister in London for about 15 years. Meantime he had written scripts for Frankie Howard, Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith and others, and performed as a stand-up comedian, which led to presenting radio and television programmes, in particular Whose line is it anyway? on Radio 4 and then on Channel 4. He presented ten series of his chat show Clive Anderson Talks Back, picking up British Comedy Awards in 1991 and 1992, before moving on to BBC One with Clive Anderson All Talk. In 2003 he also presented The Big Read for BBC Two. On radio he chairs Unreliable Evidence, made by Above The Title Productions for Radio 4, in which Clive cross-examines some of the most eminent legal figures in the country. He says, "My personal pleasure from Unreliable Evidence comes from getting to chair discussions on legal matters involving the highest level of judges and academics - the sort of figures who would have terrified me when I was actually practising as a barrister."

Hugh Dennis - actor, comedian and writer. A skilled impressionist, Dennis did voices for Spitting Image and with comedy partner Steve Punt, whom he met at university in Cambridge, appeared as resident support comics on two TV series hosted on the BBC by Jasper Carrott. The pair then formed half of The Mary Whitehouse Experience on BBC Radio 1, later graduating to a television series. Dennis has performed on various TV and radio shows, including The Imaginatively Titled Punt and Dennis Show and sitcom Me You And Him. He has guest hosted Have I Got News For You and plays obnoxious GP Piers Crispin in BBC sitcom My Hero. He is currently starring on Radio 4’s The Now Show and is in huge demand as a voiceover artist.

Steve Punt - writer, comedian and actor, most famous for his long-time partnership with Hugh Dennis. The pair met while at Cambridge University. Punt was a student of St. Catharine's College. They became resident guest comedians on shows presented by Jasper Carrott, including Carrott Confidential and Canned Carrott, and also toured with Carrott as a live support act. They were then recruited in 1988, along with David Baddiel and Rob Newman to write and perform a satirical sketch and stand-up show called The Mary Whitehouse Experience on BBC Radio 1. After three years, the show had proved such a big hit that it transferred to television. Punt and Dennis went on to perform in their own TV sketch show, The Imaginatively Titled Punt & Dennis Show, and co-wrote and starred in the sitcom Me, You & Him. Punt has worked more as a writer, script editor and voice-over artist in recent years, though he also performed with Dennis in It's Been A Bad Week for BBC Radio 2. Punt & Dennis are also the main presenters of Radio 4's The Now Show.

Marcus started his career in comedy whilst at Bristol University, where alongside Danny Robins and Dan Tetsell, who make up the rest of Club Seals (of We Are History fame), he performed to university and national crowds and soon won the 1996 BBC New Comedian Award at the Edinburgh Festival. He has since emerged as a major comedy, writing and acting talent, performing stand up to thrilled, sell out audiences across the country, both on tour and on the club/theatre circuit. He has become a regular voice on BBC Radio, and has notched up an impressive list of TV credits. Following a hugely successful run at the Edinburgh Festival, Marcus Brigstocke the award winning stand up from BBCFour's The Late Edition Radio 4's The Now Show, Televisions, We Are History, The Savages, Have I got News for You and smash hit British comedy movie Love Actually, is performing his smash hit, topical show - Planet Corduroy around the country.

Sean Lock is one of the UK's most highly acclaimed and original comedians, making his stage debut over 12 years ago. His stand-up is the product of a hyperactive imagination combining hilariously surreal imagery and insightful observations on the human condition. Sean is a regular at London's Comedy Store and has appeared at all the major festivals around the world including Edinburgh, Melbourne, Montreal and the Stavanger Humorfestivat in Norway. Sean has performed in some of the most successful live shows of recent years. Beginning in 1995 when he collaborated with Bill Bailey on Rock, the much misunderstood music industry spoof later to be serialised on Radio One. Sean Lock has written and stars in his own BBC sitcom 15 Storeys High as Vince the lifeguard who lives in a South London tower block. The show has quickly established itself as one of the most original comedy series' of recent years and is a cult classic. Sean's extensive television credits include appearances on They Think It's All Over (BBC) Never Mind The Buzzcocks (BBC) The World Of Lee Evans (Channel 4) Here's Johnny (BBC) and The Stand Up Show (BBC).

Jeremy Hardy is one of the UK's foremost and respected stand-up comedians. His live work has included Just 4 Laughs, (Montreal Comedy Festival), the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where he won the prestigious Perrier Award and numerous sell out tours of the UK and Ireland. When he’s not touring Jeremy is now an essential member of Radio 4’s News Quiz team as well as regularly appearing on I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, Hamish and Dougall and Just a Minute. He also writes and performs his own series, again for Radio 4, the hugely successful Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation. His recent television credits include: Grumpy Old Men (BBC1), Q.I. (BBC 2), Mock The Week (BBC2), DVD Collection (BBC3), Back In The Day (BBC2), Human Rights, Human Wrongs (BBC2), Not Tonight With John Sergeant (BBC2) and BBC 2’s satirical look at the London Mayoral election All The Fun Of The Mayor. Ever keen to diversify, Jeremy appeared in HOTEL a feature film directed by Mike Figgis opposite Burt Reynolds, David Schwimmer and Rhys Ifans.