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John Dredge

Weird comedian person and also musician person!

About Me

I live within a walnut on the planet of Trebor, more specifically, in London. My parents were hedgehogs, and my cousins were cogmenders by Royal appointment. I began life in the spring of '444, a leaf protruding from my hat, and an aubergine balanced precariously on my elbow. I then went to school and found only chaffinches would be my friends except on the thirty-fifth of the month, when a spaceship would emerge from its shed and the aliens would take me around Penge for a few quid. I then left school and went to work in the town centre as a mollusc. It was a tiring job and although offered promotion I decided instead to join the Albertross Association, and enjoyed flying through the sky with a devil-may-care attitude. After some time I was employed as a sceneshifter with the local bank. After a week they realised there were no scenes to shift and I was fired. I then became a telephone sales operative for the county, and astride my faithful horse, Warlock, I would phone various people-oids in search of things and stuff. I then took up the guitar and began to sing in a band, The Unit Trusts. We went on a massive tour of my house and played a final triumphant gig in the airing cupboard. Then we split up and I became more interested in yaks. After making my own yak out of shoe trees and camemberts, I decided to try my hand at comedy, armed only with a clockface. I wrote some daft radio shows for Resonance 104.4FM (www.resonancefm.com) and internet station Comedy 365(www.comedy365.co.uk) and continue to do so in a continuative manner. I also began performing at Sketch Club in Crouch End (www.sketchclub.co.uk) and have just made a showreel with peculiar characters on it, around it and under it. I plan to write my own tv and radio comedy shows and also plan to go on a world tour of Lowestoft Library riding around on a tractor and/or coin. Long live the Prussian Empire, and good luck to Henry Schlappers, who likes counting chimps and has invented a special chimpometer for that sort of thing. By the way, both my father and my wife were born in a barrel in the English coastal town of Chaydsley. So they say(y).Check out the blog for odd comedy material...plus check out my silly audio sketches as well folks!!!!
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/16/2006
Influences: Jeremiah Koggswheat, inventor of the Shepton Mallet. Barry Teeth, wig farmer. Sir Norman Vesttttttttttttttttt. Glott. Stanley Rheumanoidman. Cedric Popemobile. Trebor Hattingtonnn(n). Lenny Grittt. Bazil Fortnumshield, who can run a mile in lengths. Miriam Puce-gable, friend of the aforesaid. The Aforesaid - new Britpop pensioner hybrid band. Hyblid Kingdomranch - a strangely named man. Peter. Nosher Puggs, world disco-dancing champion and biscuit barrel manufacturer. Charles Tokenlegg-McGambit, ex-all England Rotary Club champion. Queen Phosphate of the Netheregions. Barry Ohdear, man of a thousand crisp packets. Phable Cruickshank, winner of the 1993 Orange Puma Award. Gronak Shadesley, part fish, part buffalo. Derek Growbags. Paleface McGhee. Daphne Gonnnnnnnnnnnnntrappedbison, author of 'Where has all the cutlery gone?' a tale of derring do set amongst the cabbages in Dundeeshire. Bill Tuttt-tuttt, inventor of silage.
Sounds Like: The Plinths. Trebor. Lenny Twobeam Five. Manic Haberdasherie. Flinted Calf. Sceptre Man. The Rice Brigade. Hoo-ha. Len Stableford and his Musical Ankles. Buffy Forceps Four. The Penguins. The Legs. Coin Farthingale's Meteor Brackets. Lemington. Quango Choir of Spudulike. Vestibule Clangeeeeeeeee and the Moccasins. The Lift Maintenance Men. The Cagoules. Table.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED by John Dredge, Expert.

Dear JohnI'm thinking of having a sliding door fitted between one sliding door and another in my house, which has over a hundred sliding doors in it. What is your view?Bob, PengeJohn says: I would eas...
Posted by John Dredge on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:00:00 PST

Professor

DG: With us today is one of the most distinguished scientists of our time, the Head of Examining Interesting Things at ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Pli...
Posted by John Dredge on Sat, 03 May 2008 10:12:00 PST

radio 6

Hello yourself.  To be blunt my name is John Dredge and this is the Really Show Show.  We start with an appeal.  It was announced this morning that drastic cuts are being made to the bu...
Posted by John Dredge on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:07:00 PST

radio 5

 FX: MOTOR CAR DRIVES UP AND STOPS. Good evening.  I'm John Dredge and welcome to the Really Short Show and my realm of fear.  Tonight - pie charts, are they just a gimmick, or somethin...
Posted by John Dredge on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:50:00 PST

radio 4

Penguins cannot be gainsayed.  That sentence was first heard at the turn of the century and it has now been revived by me John Dredge for this edition of the Really Short Show.  Tonight - pa...
Posted by John Dredge on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:45:00 PST

radio 3

It's a quarter past wheenver you're listening to this or it will be at some point, and welcome in so many words to The Really Short Show.  My name's John Dredge and I enjoy horticultural escapade...
Posted by John Dredge on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:51:00 PST

radio script 2

Good eve...er....VOICE: Ning!Good evening.  I'm John Dredge and welcome to the Really Short Show.  Tonight, where to go if you want to see a sparkling new holdall, and we solve the riddle of...
Posted by John Dredge on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:58:00 PST

radio script no 1

Hello and twigs.  My name is John Dredge, despite hideous rumours, and welcome to The Really Short Show, which this week is ESPECIALLY short due to lack of minutes.  Nah den, you're probably...
Posted by John Dredge on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:47:00 PST

blog of blogs

BLOG OF BLOGS 1 Helo.  Did you notice that I spelt 'helo' with just one 'l' there?  This is part of my new economy drive, which also involves using only one elbow at a time. Welcome to my ne...
Posted by John Dredge on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:12:00 PST

come along to my silly sketch show

Name: The Sound of HamTagline: New radio comedy sketch showType: Music/Arts - PerformanceTime and PlaceDate: Wednesday, November 14, 2007Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pmLocation: The Hop CellarsStreet: 24 Southw...
Posted by John Dredge on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:29:00 PST