Alan Davies
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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]]. | 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]]. | ||
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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 one of the attendees gets murdered. Well ''of course'' one does, 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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Revision as of 08:07, 16 May 2010
Contents |
Shows
The Best Show in the World... Probably (team captain)
Fighting Talk (guest host)
QI (permanent panellist)
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 one of the attendees gets murdered. Well of course one does, because that's what tends to happen when you hold an event in Oxford - have none of these people ever seen Inspector Morse?
