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== Shows == | == Shows == | ||
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[[Fighting Talk]] (guest host) | [[Fighting Talk]] (guest host) | ||
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[[QI]] (permanent panellist) | [[QI]] (permanent panellist) | ||
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As well as the amateur sleuth in ''Jonathan Creek'', he's played a policeman in ''Agatha Christie's Marple'', a barrister in ''The Brief'' and a murder suspect in ''Lewis''. The last of these was in an episode titled "Your Sudden Death Question", in which he played the organiser and questionmaster of a quizzers' convention at which two of the attendees get murdered. Well ''of course'' they do, because that's what tends to happen when you hold an event in Oxford - have none of these people ever seen ''Inspector Morse''? | As well as the amateur sleuth in ''Jonathan Creek'', he's played a policeman in ''Agatha Christie's Marple'', a barrister in ''The Brief'' and a murder suspect in ''Lewis''. The last of these was in an episode titled "Your Sudden Death Question", in which he played the organiser and questionmaster of a quizzers' convention at which two of the attendees get murdered. Well ''of course'' they do, because that's what tends to happen when you hold an event in Oxford - have none of these people ever seen ''Inspector Morse''? | ||
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+ | Outside of legal dramas, he also starred in the restaurant sitcom ''Whites'', and given half a chance definitely ''will'' complain about the fact that it was axed after one series. | ||
==Web links== | ==Web links== |
Revision as of 10:12, 27 September 2020
Contents |
Shows
The Best Show in the World... Probably (team captain)
Fighting Talk (guest host)
Guessable (team captain)
QI (permanent panellist)
Show Me the Funny (judge)
Biography
Stand-up comic successively famous for (i) advertising what was then a well-known building society, (ii) playing the windmill-dwelling magic-consultant-turned-sleuth Jonathan Creek, and (iii) getting most of the wrong answers on QI.
Trivia
As well as the amateur sleuth in Jonathan Creek, he's played a policeman in Agatha Christie's Marple, a barrister in The Brief and a murder suspect in Lewis. The last of these was in an episode titled "Your Sudden Death Question", in which he played the organiser and questionmaster of a quizzers' convention at which two of the attendees get murdered. Well of course they do, because that's what tends to happen when you hold an event in Oxford - have none of these people ever seen Inspector Morse?
Outside of legal dramas, he also starred in the restaurant sitcom Whites, and given half a chance definitely will complain about the fact that it was axed after one series.