Rory Bremner
Rory Bremner, Britain’s top satirical impressionist and renowned comedian, is to star as Chris Tarrant in James Graham’s thrilling and provocative drama, Quiz. The production explores the real-life story of Charles Ingram, aka the Coughing Major, who conned the world’s most popular TV quiz show, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire out of £1,000,000. Or did he?
Recently released papers have revealed how Rory Bremner may have saved John Major from a leadership challenge when he was Prime Minister.
Documents from the National Archives tell how Bremner impersonated the PM on the phone to Eurosceptic Tory MPs in 1993.
Henley Festival has announced that it will be going digital for 2020, presenting a two-hour evening concert, streamed on the Henley Festival website with performances from the Hurley House Hotel on Sunday 12th July from 7.30pm – 9.30pm on what would be the final day of the festival.
Rob Brydon is to host a fund-raiser for the UK’s biggest festival of screen comedy, Slapstick, at The Hexagon in Reading on Tuesday 7 May.
The line-up will also feature Jo Brand, comedy magician John Archer, Canadian stand-up star Dana Alexander, Rory Bremner, a master at mimicking top politicians with tight and topical wit and fellow impressionist Luke Kempner.
Alexander Armstrong is to host a new impressions show for ITV1. The Imitation Game is a panel show with a twist. Top impressionists Rory Bremner and Debra Stephenson together with Britain’s Got Talent’s Jess Robinson and rising star Luke Kempner are challenged to perform big name impersonations in a series of rounds and games. So what will happen when Donald Trump rubs shoulders with Cheryl Cole, or Boris Johnson duets with Adele?
This fast-paced ITV1 pilot will be recorded at Elstree Studios on 7th July.
Has Rory Bremner drawn the short straw by coming last in the post-Election post-mortems or has this given him an advantage? While others were completely blindsided by the result but had to respond quickly, the veteran impressionist has had almost a week to review and take in the poll’s ramifications and try to find the funny side.
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