 | | | | |  | | | | | | What you should know about the real...
RADIO CREDITS
PARSONS & NAYLORS PULLOUT SECTIONS
Radio Two. This is P & N's long running, much loved sketch show. Usually they record two series each year and these air Thursdays at 10pm and then get a repeat the following Saturday lunchtimes. (See listings for more details)
STRAIGHT UP
Radio Five Live. P & N presented the show for 52 weeks - and tried their hands at over 110 different sports. They did everything from 'proper sports' - like training with the Wigan Rugby League Club, skiing, and motor-racing - to more alternative stuff like human skittles and grass-sledging.
FUSED
BBC News Department. P & N were presenters.
HOUSE NATION
BBC Radio 1 Writers / Performers. 24 - part series.
LOOSE ENDS
Radio 4. Regular guest slots.
HAIR IN THE GATE
Sitcom about the arts for Radio 4. Co-wrote.
HOLD THE BACK PAGE
Five Live. Sports Quiz. Performers.
THE MOTION SHOW
Radio 4. Guest slots.
JAMIE THEAKSTON'S CRICKET SHOW
Five Live. Guest appearances, and wrote all the gags for Phil Tuffnell's weekly comic turn.
SORTED
Five Live. Weekly reports on extreme pursuits.
TELEVISION CREDITS
SPITTING IMAGE
ITV. Were the Principal writers for 3 series - a period when the ratings went from the lows of 4.4m to7.7m.
SMITH AND JONES
BBC 1. Performers and writers for several series.
THE STAND-UP SHOW
BBC 1. Performers and writers.
SATURDAY LIVE
LWT Several guest slots
MURDER MOST HORRID
BBC2. Several cameo roles - being freemasons, coppers, lunatics, etc.
PRESS GANG
ITV. Performers
FOOD FIGHT
Were host and team captain of this Channel 5 quiz. At the time it was the station's most highly-rated weekday show.
HOLDING THE BABY
Granada. Script-doctors.
ASYLUM
The Paramount Channel. Performers.
THE LENNY HENRY SHOW
BBC1. Performers and Writers.
LIVE AT JONGLEURS
Performers.
THE COMEDY STORE
Performers.
THE BIG STAGE
Performers.
1ST EVER MTV EUROPEAN MUSIC AWARDS CEREMONY IN BERLIN
Wrote the script -for everybody from Pamela Anderson, to Tom Jones, and East 17.
FESTIVALS
MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL 1998
SYDNEY COMEDY FESTIVAL 1998/1999
ADELAIDE FESTIVAL 1998 (were the only international act to be invited to all three Aussie comedy Festivals that year)
EDINBURGH FESTIVAL 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 ,1997, 1999, 2001. Every show sold-out.
Various other national festivals - including Manchester, London, Newcastle, Leicester, etc..
THEATRE CREDITS
SMITH AND JONES
'Tired and Emotional' National Tour. Support Act.
TBA
Set up, Produced, Directed, Wrote for, Performed in this sketch comedy show case every week for 3 years. It was London's first comedy sketch club - it sold out every week - and ran for two years at the Gate Theatre in Notting Hill. The club is said to have started the New Sketch Revolution.
Regularly seen at the Comedy Store, Jongleurs etc.
"Phenomenally Funny, Parsons & Naylor are pure wicked unadulterated talent" -
The Guardian.
"Absolutely silly, Parsons & Naylor really hit the funny bone. Laugh yourself sick" - Sydney Morning Herald.
"the funniest double-act you could ever wish to see," Time Out.
Also, Andy is the 2002 Time Out Comedy Award winner and is a regular of the Cutting Edge at the Comedy Store.
And Henry presented C4's 'UK Ice Hockey', and his writing won the British Comedy Award with 'Alastair McGowan's Big Impression', and the Sony Award with Dead Ringers.
 [back to top]
| | | | | | |
|
