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Dara Ó Briain is one of the UK & Ireland’s favourite stand-up comedians and television presenters. He is best known for hosting Mock The Week, Robot Wars, Three Men in a Boat, Dara and Ed’s Great Big Adventure, Stargazing Live, Dara Ó Briain’s Science Club, and the documentary Dara Ó Briain Meets Stephen Hawking, all on BBC Television. He also currently hosts Comedy Central’s hit gameshow Blockbusters. His latest show, Voice of Reason, has been performed across the globe, touring in the UK & Ireland, Scandinavia, mainland Europe, Australia and the Middle East.
Dara has hosted eighteen successful series of the comedy panel game Mock the Week for BBC television, and recently hosted BBC Two’s reboot of Robot Wars. He also hosted BBC Two’s The Apprentice: You’re Fired for three years.
Alan Roger Davies is an English stand-up comedian, writer and actor. He has played the title role in the BBC mystery drama series Jonathan Creek since 1997, and has been the only permanent panellist on the BBC panel show QI since 2003, outlasting hosts Stephen Fry and Sandi Toksvig who took over after Fry’s exit.
Alan is also a talented writer who co-wrote and starred in the radio sitcom, The Alan Davies Show and going on to prove how versatile he is, took on a less comedic role starring as Henry Farm in the drama The Brief.
He has gone on to present documentaries including Alan Davies’ Teenage Revolutions, Alan Davies Apres-Ski, The Dog Rescuers and also co-hosted the Brazilian Banter podcast for ITV with Tom & Dom from Bantams Banter which was a satirical look at the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
Since quitting his career as a maths teacher seven years ago, Romesh Ranganathan has gone onto make a real name for himself. The last few years have been incredible for Romesh with two series of his BAFTA and RTS Nominated series Asian Provocateur receiving critical acclaim. In 2016 Romesh embarked on his debut solo tour selling over 100,000 tickets and being awarded the Ents24 Hardest Working Comedian Of The Year.
The DVD/Digital release of the show is still flying high in the comedy charts with the highest sales of a debut in recent years.Romesh is a regular on our TV screens best known for his performances on BBC One’s ‘Live At The Apollo’, ‘Have I Got News For You’, ‘Jack Dee’s HelpDesk’, BBC Two’s ‘Mock The Week’, ‘The Apprentice: You’re Fired’, ITV’s ‘Play To The Whistle’, ‘The Jonathan Ross Show’, ‘The Royal Variety Performance’, ‘Live From The Palladium’, Channel 4’s ‘Alan Carr Chatty Man’, ‘8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown’ and ‘8 Out Of 10 Cats’, Sky 1’s ‘A League Of Their Own’, Dave’s ‘Taskmaster’ and Sky Arts ‘Passions: Richard Pryor By Romesh Ranganathan’.
His two Edinburgh Festival shows, ‘Rom Com’ and ‘Rom Wasn’t Built In A Day’ were nominated for the prestigious Edinburgh Fosters Best Show Award in August 2014 and Best Newcomer Award 2013. Well respected by his peers Romesh has also been honoured to support several of his comedy heroes including; Seann Walsh, Kevin Bridges, Bill Burr and Ricky Gervais.
The last year has seen Romesh embark on his career in America with the launch of his own series ‘Just Another Immigrant’ on Showtime which has received critical acclaim selling across the globe and will be appearing on screens in the UK early 2019. His time in America has seen him appear twice on ‘James Corden’s Late Late Show’ and debut on ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’.2018 is already proving a busy year with him filming his new BBC2 series ‘The Misadvenutres Of Romesh Ranganathan’, Sky 1 commissioning a six-part series of ‘Rob & Romesh Meet’, becoming the new regular on ‘A League Of Their Own’, taking on a new role for Dave in ‘Judge Romesh’ as well as writing and starring in his own Sky 1 sitcom ‘The Reluctant Landlord’.
Sandi Toksvig is a well-known comedian, presenter and writer. She has hit our screens by storm with her intellegent, sharp wit and dry sense of humour. A regular on QI she is a huge household name and leaves a lasting impression wherever she is encountered or seen.
She can also be seen on other popular programmes such as Mock the Week and Have I Got News For You. Sandi has a number of playwriting credits to her name, as well as holding a regular spot on BBC Radio 4 as the chair of The News Quiz. She is overall, an extremely talented woman!
Sandi’s career has gone from strength to strength and as a popular and engaging character, she is certainly one to make an impression at any event!
Currently starring in BBC 2’s hit topical panel show Mock the Week, and BBC1’s hit sit-com Outnumbered, Hugh also writes and presents Radio 4’s award winning comedy The Now Show (currently in its 27th series).
Hugh Dennis began his performing career in 1985, as one half of double act “Punt and Dennis”. Most recently Hugh and Steve Punt have toured their live show STUFF AND NONSENSE around the UK. Hugh gained his degree from St John’s College, Cambridge University.
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Hugh is both a thoroughly entertaining after dinner speaker,and is an exceptional corporate awards host.
Ant Middleton is the Chief Instructor for Channel 4’s hit show, SAS : Who Dares Wins. Aside from his role as Chief Instructor , 2017 will also see Ant at the forefront of two more huge shows for Channel 4; ‘Mutiny’ and ‘Escape.’
Born in Portsmouth and raised in rural France, Ant set his sights on a career in the armed forces and didn’t stop striving until he achieved his goal. Initially with the Royal Engineers and then the Royal Marines, Ant passed selection for the Special Boat Service (SBS) in 2008 and spent 4 years there.
He was a point man/lead scout and also a primary fires operator and sniper. Prior to joining the SBS, Ant also served in the Royal Marines and 9 Parachute Squadron Royal – meaning that he has achieved the ‘Holy Trinity’ of the UK’s Elite Forces (P Company, Commando Course, UK Special Forces Selection)
Thanks to his huge range of Special Forces experience, Ant has invaluable skills in survival and endurance. His appetite for adventure and extremes has no limit and has lead him to take on some amazing challenges. He has already climbed Mount Elbrus (Russia) and The Matterhorn in preparation to climb Mount Everest in 2017.
Before SAS : Who Dares Wins, Ant transferred his Special Forces skills to personal security and was selected to protect VIPs, including government officials and high profile celebrities, he also operated as a security expert in South Africa and across various other countries for governments in West Africa. He has trained presidential security teams and also ran extreme SAS style corporate events for large companies who wanted to truly experience the extremes of Special Forces selection.
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