What career did the writer of the comedy series The Ex-PM have before turning to comedy full-time ?
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The Ex-PM The Ex-PM (pronounced 'ex P.M.') is an Australian television comedy series that first aired on ABC on Wednesday 14 October 2015. The six-part series is written by and stars Shaun Micallef with director Sian Davies and producer Nick Murray for Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder.
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Shaun Micallef Shaun Patrick Micallef (born 18 July 1962) is an Australian actor, comedian and writer. After ten years of working in insurance law as a solicitor in Adelaide, Micallef moved to Melbourne to pursue a full-time comedy career in 1993. He first gained recognition as a cast member of the sketch comedy show "Full Frontal", which in turn led to a number of television roles including his own sketch show, "The Micallef P(r)ogram(me)", the sitcom "Welcher & Welcher" and the variety show "Micallef Tonight". He also fronted the satirical news comedy series "Newstopia" on SBS, hosted the game show "Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation" on Network Ten for four seasons, and "Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell" on the ABC. He also co-created and starred in "Mr & Mrs Murder" on Network Ten.
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Pat Condell Patrick Condell (born 23 November 1949) is a writer, polemicist, and former stand-up comedian. In his early career he wrote and performed in alternative comedy shows during the 1980s and 1990s in London, winning the Time Out Comedy Award in 1991. He was also formerly a regular panelist on BBC Radio 1's "Loose Talk" programme.
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Simon Munnery Simon Munnery, also known as his characters "Alan Parker: Urban Warrior" and "The League Against Tedium", is an English standup comedian.
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Gary Delaney Gary Justin Delaney (born 16 April 1973, in Solihull) is an English writer and stand-up comedian.
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Stephen Fry bibliography and filmography Stephen Fry is an English actor, comedian, author and television presenter. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in "A Bit of Fry and Laurie", and the duo also played the title roles in "Jeeves and Wooster". Fry played the lead in the film "Wilde", was Melchett in the "Blackadder" television series and is the host of celebrity comedy trivia show, "QI". He has contributed columns and articles for newspapers and magazines, and has written four novels and three autobiographies, "Moab Is My Washpot", "", and "More Fool Me: A Memoir".
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Tony Robinson Sir Anthony "Tony" Robinson (born 15 August 1946) is an English actor, comedian, author, presenter, historian and political activist. He is known for playing Baldrick in the BBC television series "Blackadder" and for hosting the Channel 4 programmes "Time Team" and "The Worst Jobs in History". Robinson is a member of the Labour Party and has served on its National Executive Committee. He has also written sixteen children's books.
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Joe Wilkinson Joseph "Joe" Wilkinson (born 2 May 1975) is an English comedian, actor and writer.
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Phil Leslie Phil L. Leslie (March 11, 1909 in St. Louis, Missouri – September 23, 1988) was an American comedy writer. His first career, since he was good at math, was keeping books for a local bank in St. Louis, but he began pursuing a career in writing.
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Tracy Harvey Tracy Harvey is a comedian, TV presenter, actor and writer from Melbourne, Australia.
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Paul McDermott Paul Anthony Michael McDermott (born 13 May 1962) is an Australian comedian, actor, writer, director, singer, artist and television personality. As a comedian, he is best known both for "Good News Week" and for his role as a member of the musical comedy group the Doug Anthony All Stars, which disbanded in 1994 but reformed in 2014; he has also performed individually and as a part of GUD. He has frequently appeared at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and taken part in its two major televised productions, the Comedy Festival Gala and the Great Debate. He has also hosted two other ABC programs and briefly featured on Triple J as a morning radio presenter between 1996 and 1997. He hosted "Good News Week" until 2012, and has since pursued his painting career, and given a series of concerts featuring self-penned songs of a more serious nature.
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Bernard McKenna (writer) Bernard McKenna (born 1944) is a Scottish writer/producer who has written, or co-written, many hours of British television comedy. He is most known for his work with Graham Chapman of "Monty Python" fame as well as his collaborations with Peter Cook and Douglas Adams. He had several acting roles in "Monty Python's Life of Brian".
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Kent Jones (writer) Thomas Kenton "Kent" Jones (born June 12, 1964) is a writer and performer on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show". He is a comedy writer who also wrote and performed at Air America Radio.
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Writer's Inc Writer's Inc was a sketch comedy troupe who won the 1982 Edinburgh Comedy Award, then known as the Perrier Award for sponsorship reasons. The troupe consisted of Gary Adams, Steve Brown, Vicki Pile, Trevor McCallum, Helen Murry, Jamie Rix, and Nick Wilton, with additional material by Kim Fuller.
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Snoo Wilson Andrew James Wilson (2 August 1948 – 3 July 2013), better known as Snoo Wilson, was an English playwright, screenwriter and director. His early plays such as "Blow-Job" (1971) were overtly political, often combining harsh social comment with comedy. In his later works he moved away from purely political themes, embracing a range of surrealist, magical, philosophical and madcap, darkly comic subjects.
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My Dad's the Prime Minister My Dad's the Prime Minister is a British sitcom written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman. It centres on the life of the Prime Minister, his family and his spin doctor. Its main cast include Robert Bathurst, Joe Prospero, Carla Mendonça, Brian Bovell and Emma Sackville.
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Patrick Marber Patrick Albert Crispin Marber (born 19 September 1964) is an English comedian, playwright, director, puppeteer, actor, and screenwriter.
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Dave Eastgate Dave Eastgate is an Australian actor, stand-up comedian, writer and musician. He is most known for his regular roles in the television series and sketch shows.
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Basil Boothroyd John Basil Boothroyd (4 March 1910 – 27 February 1988) was an English humorous writer, best known for his long association with "Punch". As a young man he worked for a bank, but began contributing articles to "Punch", and became its assistant editor, a post in which he served for eighteen years. His career as a writer for "Punch" spanned the editorships of E. V. Knox to Alan Coren. Boothroyd’s chief literary work outside the comic essay was an official biography of Prince Philip undertaken at the request of its subject. Boothroyd also wrote for television and radio, and was a frequent broadcaster.
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Robert Popper Robert Darren Popper is a British comedy producer, writer, actor, and author, best known as co-creator of the mock BBC documentary "Look Around You", and creator of Channel 4's sitcom "Friday Night Dinner". He also wrote the books "The Timewaster Letters", "Return of The Timewaster Letters" and "The Timewaster Diaries" under the pseudonym Robin Cooper.
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Alan Park Alan Park (born November 5, 1962 in Scarborough, Ontario) is a Canadian comedian and political satirist best known for his appearances on the "Royal Canadian Air Farce". Alan gives humorous commentary on current events. Though originally not a caricaturist as are his "Farce" castmates, he has developed portrayals of Canadian politicians such as Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe, Health Minister Tony Clement, Foreign Affairs minister Peter MacKay, as well as the former and Liberal leaders Stéphane Dion and Michael Ignatieff.
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Charlie Skelton Charlie Skelton is a comedy writer, journalist, artist and actor from Suffolk, England.