The Collected Broadcasts of Idi Amin is a British comedy album parodying Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, released in 1975, it was written by who, which was an English humourist, writer and satirist who was well known as a regular panellist on the BBC radio quiz "The News Quiz" and a team captain on BBC television's "Call My Bluff"?
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The Collected Broadcasts of Idi Amin The Collected Broadcasts of Idi Amin is a British comedy album parodying Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, released in 1975 on Transatlantic Records. It was performed by John Bird and written by Alan Coren, based on columns he wrote for "Punch" magazine.
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Alan Coren Alan Coren (27 June 1938 – 18 October 2007) was an English humourist, writer and satirist who was well known as a regular panellist on the BBC radio quiz "The News Quiz" and a team captain on BBC television's "Call My Bluff". Coren was also a journalist, and for nine years was the editor of "Punch" magazine.
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Richard Dimbleby Frederick Richard Dimbleby, CBE (25 May 1913 – 22 December 1965) was an English journalist and broadcaster, who became the BBC’s first war correspondent, and then its leading TV news commentator.
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My Music (radio) My Music was a radio panel show which premiered on the BBC Home Service on 3 January 1967. It was a companion programme to "My Word!", and like that show featured comic writers Denis Norden and Frank Muir. The show was last recorded in November 1993 and broadcast in January 1994. It was also broadcast via the BBC World Service. There was also a television series on BBC2 which ran for seven series between 1977 and 1983.
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It's Not What You Know (radio series) It's Not What You Know is a BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show created and originally hosted by Miles Jupp, beginning on 23 February 2012. Series four is hosted by Joe Lycett. The show features three celebrity contestants who have answer questions based on the knowledge of people that they know personally, such as friends or relatives. Points are scored for how accurately the contestant predicts their counterpart.
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John Humphrys Desmond John Humphrys (born 17 August 1943) is a Welsh broadcaster. From 1981 to 1987 he was the main presenter for the "Nine O'Clock News", the flagship BBC news television programme, and since 1987 he has been a presenter on the BBC Radio 4 programme, "Today". He presents the programme with Justin Webb, Nick Robinson, Mishal Husain and Sarah Montague. Since 2003 he has been the host of the BBC Two television quiz show "Mastermind".
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David Low (cartoonist) Sir David Alexander Cecil Low (7 April 1891 – 19 September 1963) was a New Zealand political cartoonist and caricaturist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom for many years. Low was a self-taught cartoonist. Born in New Zealand, he worked in his native country before migrating to Sydney in 1911, and ultimately to London (1919), where he made his career and earned fame for his Colonel Blimp depictions and his merciless satirising of the personalities and policies of German dictator Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and other leaders of his times.
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Alex Brooker Alexander James "Alex" Brooker (born 15 May 1984) is an English journalist, presenter and comedian best known for his television work with Channel 4.
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Dan Patterson Dan Patterson is a British television producer and writer, responsible for the production of both the British and American incarnations of the improvisation show "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" and the British satirical panel show "Mock the Week" with writing partner Mark Leveson. He has also written for episodes of both shows.
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Sue Ellicott Sue Ellicott is a former television correspondent for the BBC and political writer for "The Times" in Washington, DC. Ellicott has appeared on CNN, ABC News, and "Politically Incorrect". Ellicott is one of the recurring guest panelists on the NPR radio news quiz show "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" She was briefly a co-host of Air America Radio's "Morning Sedition" with comedian Marc Maron and radio veteran Mark Riley. She also appeared on "Last Call" with Elvis Mitchell, Stuttering John Melendez and Tad Low, a late-night gabfest on CBS affiliates in the early 90's.
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On This Day in History On This Day In History was a feature on the BBC Radio 1 breakfast show in the UK between 1988 and 1993. It was devised by the programme's presenter at the time, Simon Mayo.
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Jonathan Lee (satirist) Jonathan Lee (born 10 June) is a British writer, satirist and humorist. He is best known for his satirical work and in particular his spoof diary accounts of cricket captains Andrew Strauss and Ricky Ponting. He is also the co-founder of the British humour website 7 Reasons. He currently authors the successful blog series 'Responsibilities of an adman' and lives in Fulham, London.
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Peter Tinniswood Peter Tinniswood (21 December 1936 – 9 January 2003) was an English radio and TV comedy scriptwriter, and author of a series of popular cricketing novels. He was born in Liverpool, but grew up above a dry cleaner's on Eastway in Sale, Greater Manchester.
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Chris Moyles' Quiz Night Chris Moyles' Quiz Night is a British television comedy panel game show, presented by Chris Moyles.
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Benny Hill Alfred Hawthorne "Benny" Hill (21 January 1924 – 20 April 1992) was an English comedian and actor, best remembered for his television programme "The Benny Hill Show", an amalgam of slapstick, burlesque and double entendres in a format that included live comedy and filmed segments, with him at the focus of almost every segment.
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David Ellis Dickerson David Ellis Dickerson is an American author, humorist and contributor to National Public Radio's "This American Life". Dickerson formerly worked at Hallmark as a greeting card writer and is the unofficial Greeting Card Laureate of National Public Radio. He is creator of the web series "Greeting Card Emergency", on which he writes greeting cards for unusual situations. He has also contributed to "The Atlantic".
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J. B. Morton John Cameron Andrieu Bingham Michael Morton, better known by his preferred abbreviation J. B. Morton (7 June 1893 – 10 May 1979) was an English humorous writer noted for authoring a column called "By the Way" under the pen name 'Beachcomber' in the "Daily Express" from 1924 to 1975.
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David Bullard David Bullard (born 1952, London) is a British-born and South African naturalized columnist, author and celebrity public speaker known for his controversial satire.
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The Big Quiz (TV series) The Big Quiz is a British entertainment quiz show hosted by Stephen Mulhern.
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Douglas Botting Douglas Scott Botting (born 22 February 1934) is an English explorer, author, biographer and TV presenter and producer. He wrote biographies of naturalists Gavin Maxwell and Gerald Durrell (the former also being a personal friend). He was the inspiration behind and writer of the 1972 BBC comedy show "The Black Safari", a role-reversal comedy show with Africans touring England. He has also featured in numerous other BBC programming, including "Under London Expedition" exploring the London sewerage system, as part of the BBC2 nature series "The World About Us". He has written numerous World War II and early aviation books for Time Life Books. Botting took part in the first balloon flight over Africa, with Anthony Smith.
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Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life is a BBC-TV satire programme produced by Ned Sherrin, which aired during the winter of 1964–1965, in an attempt to continue and improve on the successful formula of his "That Was the Week That Was" (known informally as "TW3"), which had been taken off by the BBC because of the coming general election. It too featured David Frost as compère, with two others, William Rushton (as he was billed at the time) and the poet P. J. Kavanagh joining him in the role. In addition to Saturdays, there were also editions on Fridays and Sundays.
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David Oates David 'Oatesy' Oates (c.1962 – 3 February 2013) was a British sports commentator for the BBC. A BBC journalist for more than 25 years, he provided regular commentary and reporting on BBC Radio 5 Live.