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British comedian and writer
Andrew Neil Hamilton (born 28 May 1954) is a British comedian, game show panellist, television director , comedy screenwriter , radio dramatist, novelist and actor.
Early life and education
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Hamilton was born in Fulham , southwest London. He was educated at Westminster City School which was then a voluntary aided grammar school [1] English at Downing College, Cambridge , where he was a member of the Cambridge University Light Entertainment Society (CULES).
Career
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Hamilton first came to notice while performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the 1970s. In the mid-1970s he sustained himself by taking jobs at Harrods and the Post Office before joining the BBC in 1976.[2]
His early radio work, mostly on BBC Radio 4 included Week Ending The News Huddlines The Million Pound Radio Show Nick Revell ). He has since appeared regularly in Chelmsford 123 Have I Got News for You The News Quiz QI If I Ruled the World The News Quiz I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
He is the voice of Dr Elephant, the dentist in the children's show Peppa Pig Bob and Margaret Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom
On 16 March 2007, he co-presented BBC Radio 4 's Woman's Hour Martha Kearney as part of that day's Comic Relief fundraising activities, after defeating Richard Hammond and Kelvin MacKenzie in a poll.
Since 1995, Hamilton has written and played the lead role of Satan in the Radio 4 sitcom Old Harry's Game Hat of Doom in 2008.
In 2009, Hamilton presented the BBC Four series It's Only a Theory Reginald D. Hunter .
BBC Radio 4 broadcast two, four-part series, Andy Hamilton Sort of Remembers , in 2017 and 2018. Series 1 comprised the topics of childhood, politics, the human body, and animals, based on his own personal experiences of them.[3]
Personal life
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He has no thumb on his right hand. He joked that it was amputated when he was five "by a surgeon who felt that symmetry was over-rated" to the audience of Andy Hamilton Sort of Remembers on Radio 4 in October 2017.[4] [5]
He married Libby Asher in 1988, and they have three children.[citation needed
He is a supporter of Chelsea Football Club .
Writing
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Hamilton has written for:
Television
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Radio
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Film
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Books
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The Thatcher Papers (New English Library , 1980) (with Alistair Beaton )
Andy Hamilton (1994), Drop the Dead Donkey 2000 , London: Little, Brown, ISBN 0316912360 OL 22627103M , 0316912360
"The Star Witness" ([Unbound Publishers], ISBN 1-78352-298-4 , 2016), "Like its author, this book is funny, poignant and too short" - Jack Dee
References
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^ Have I Got News for You – Series 44 – Episode 10 (BBC), 21 December 2012
^ Presenter and writer: Andy Hamilton (18 October 2017). "Andy Hamilton Sort of Remembers" . Andy Hamilton Sort of Remembers . BBC. BBC Radio 4 . Retrieved 18 October 2017 .
^ Drop the Dead Donkey
^ Wark, Penny (13 July 2005). "I was made to feel quite special" . The Times (paywall restrictions apply)
External links
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International
National
Artists
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