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Dan

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About Me

I trained at the Poor School after reading some French books at Oxford University.I have recently appeared at the Edinburgh Festival in The Reduced Edinburgh Fringe Impro Show (2006) - what lovely people Scratch are. I am currently involved in filming comedy sketches for the DVD Parkour Journeys which has now been released - check www.parkourdvd.com. On stage I have performed in Newsrevue, The Sitcom Trials (also ITV1),4 Edinburghs - each one better than the last, comedy sketches and character stand up as well as various serious roles over the years including an insane reality TV show contestant,a homophobic journalist and a paedophile priest - it's a job. On TV I sold the Queen Vic for Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders (BBC1), ran a pub in Casualty (BBC1), argued in a pub in Down To Earth (BBC1) and advertised a Belgian beer (fancy a pint?). Recently filmed 'Heroes and Villains' which has just had a small cinema release.Is that the right phrase?

My Interests

Hmm...Comedy.I also like other stuff...ummm films, theatres,crickets, footballs (Ipswich Town FC), France (honestly...no really, have lived there and I like the food), travel, reading biographies (just read Peter O'Toole's - he's a nutter)and life in general

I'd like to meet:

People who make me laugh and people who give me job

Music:

Radiohead, ELO, Fatboy Slim, Rimsky Korsakov, Elvis, Pixies, Kaiser Chiefs,Massive Attack, Oasis, Franz Ferdinand, and pretty much anything that's good.

Movies:

Life of Brian, Love and Death on Long Island, The Big Lebowski..most of Lukas Moodysson - Together, Show Me Love and the awesome Lilya4ever - the actress in it is absolutely brilliant. I recommend (although it's not a laugh a minute kind of film).

Television:

Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes - he was very good yunno, Blackadder, The Family Guy, Simpsons (obviously), Red Dwarf, Dr Who and lots of other high brow shows.

Books:

Anything by Shakespeare - that kid could write, Julian Barnes, Tom Stoppard, Douglas Adams, Moliere, Dickens, Conan Doyle - not random at all. The Time Traveller's Wife is a good read - but I can't lend it to you coz I lent it to someone else and she never gave it back :-(

Heroes:

Sherlock Holmes, The Goons, Rowan Atkinson, Eddie Izzard, The Pythons, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Ronnie Barker, Tony Hancock, Ridley Scott, Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Baudelaire, Woody Allen, John Hurt, Coen Brothers, Steve Buscemi, Sir Bobby Robson, Sir Alf Ramsey, Peter Brook, Graham Gooch, Phil Taylor, Tom Baker, my mum.