Johnny Vegas

Contents

Shows

The Johnny Vegas Gameshow

Runaround (Sport Relief one-off)

Shooting Stars (regular panellist)

Win, Lose or Draw (pre-fame contestant)

Biography

Comedian from St.Helens who used to take a potter's wheel on stage and make pots while telling jokes. Man, that's some gimmick. Moved on to Shooting Stars, annoying guest punditry duties on a million nostalgia shows (though we must give him credit for sending himself up on that "Fast Show" thing) and thence to semi-straight acting, particularly in Paul Whitehouse's Happiness and more recently the Beeb's multi-squillion-quid dramatisation of Bleak House.

Trivia

He won The Weakest Link's comedians special.

Pre-fame, he was once a contestant on Win, Lose or Draw, though we're not sure whether he won or not.

Johnny Vegas isn't his real name, obviously. It's Michael Pennington.

Web links

Official site

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