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The Now Show

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The Now Show is a British radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4, which satirises the week's news. [1]

57 relations: Adam Kay (writer), Al Murray, Andy Parsons, Andy Zaltzman, Audible (store), Barry Cryer, BBC, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 4 Extra, Bill Dare, British Comedy Guide, Broadcasting House, Christmas, Daily Mirror, Dave Gorman, Emma Kennedy, English language, Francesca Martinez, General Certificate of Secondary Education, Grace Petrie, Hugh Dennis, Irish Republican Army, ITunes Store, John Finnemore (writer), Jon Culshaw, Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin, Live on Arrival, Marcus Brigstocke, Michael Jackson, Mitch Benn, Nathan Caton, Ogg, Paul Sinha, Phil Hammond, Pippa Evans, Podcast, RADA Studios, Radio comedy, Richard Stilgoe, Robin Ince, Rory Bremner, Sarah Kendall, Satire, Schott's Almanac, Shappi Khorsandi, Simon Munnery, Steve Punt, Sue Perkins, The Mary Whitehouse Experience, ..., The News Quiz, United Kingdom, United Kingdom general election, 2010, United Kingdom general election, 2015, University of Cambridge, 2012 Summer Olympics, 21 July 2005 London bombings. Expand index (7 more) »

Adam Kay (writer)

Adam Richard Kay (born 12 June 1980) is a British comedy writer, author, comedian and former doctor.

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Al Murray

Alastair James Hay Murray (born 10 May 1968), is an English comedian and TV personality.

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Andy Parsons

Andrew John Parsons (born 3 April 1967) is an English comedian and writer.

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Andy Zaltzman

Andrew Zaltzman (born 6 October 1974) is a British comedian and author who largely deals in political and sport related material.

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Audible (store)

Audible is a seller and producer of spoken audio entertainment, information, and educational programming on the Internet.

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Barry Cryer

Barry Charles Cryer OBE (born 23 March 1935) is an English writer, comedian and actor.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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BBC Radio 4 Extra

BBC Radio 4 Extra is a British digital radio station broadcasting archive repeats of comedy, drama and documentary programmes nationally, 24 hours a day.

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Bill Dare

Bill Dare is an English author and creator/producer of radio and television comedy programmes.

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British Comedy Guide

British Comedy Guide or BCG (formerly the British Sitcom Guide or BSG) is a British website covering all forms of British comedy, across all media.

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Broadcasting House

Broadcasting House is the headquarters of the BBC, in Portland Place and Langham Place, London.

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Christmas

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ,Martindale, Cyril Charles.

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Daily Mirror

The Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper founded in 1903.

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Dave Gorman

David James Gorman (born 2 March 1971) is an English comedian, author, and television presenter.

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Emma Kennedy

Emma Kennedy (born Elizabeth Emma Williams on 28 May 1967) is an English actress, writer and television presenter.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Francesca Martinez

Francesca Martinez (born 1978) is an English comedian, writer and actress, born in London to a Spanish father and half-Swedish, half-English mother.

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General Certificate of Secondary Education

The General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) is an academic qualification, generally taken in a number of subjects by pupils in secondary education in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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Grace Petrie

Grace Petrie (born 1987) is a DIY folk singer-songwriter and guitarist from Leicester, UK.

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Hugh Dennis

Peter Hugh Dennis (born 13 February 1962), known professionally as Hugh Dennis, is an English comedian, actor, writer, impressionist and voice-over artist, best known for being one half of Punt and Dennis with comedy partner Steve Punt, and playing Pete Brockman, the father in the BBC One sitcom Outnumbered.

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Irish Republican Army

The Irish Republican Army (IRA) is any of several paramilitary movements in Ireland in the 20th and 21st centuries dedicated to Irish republicanism, the belief that all of Ireland should be an independent republic.

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ITunes Store

The iTunes Store is a software-based online digital media store operated by Apple Inc. It opened on April 28, 2003, and has been the largest music vendor in the United States since April 2008, and the largest music vendor in the world since February 2010.

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John Finnemore (writer)

John David Finnemore (born 28 September 1977) is a British comedy writer and actor.

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Jon Culshaw

Jonathan Peter Culshaw (born 2 June 1968) is an English impressionist and comedian, best known for his work on the radio comedy Dead Ringers since 2000.

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Jon Holmes

Jon Holmes (born 24 April 1969) is a British comedian, writer, presenter and broadcaster known for his work on such programmes as The Now Show, Listen Against (for BBC Radio 4), along with both music and speech radio.

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Laura Shavin

Laura Helen Shavin (born 23 December 1965, Islington, London) is a British actress and comedian.

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Live on Arrival

Live on Arrival was a BBC Radio 4 series of six episodes aired in 1988.

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Marcus Brigstocke

Marcus Alexander Brigstocke (born 8 May 1973) is an English comedian, actor and satirist who also holds French citizenship.

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Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, and dancer.

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Mitch Benn

Mitchell John Benn (born 20 January 1970) is an English musician, comedian and author known for his comedy rock songs performed on BBC radio.

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Nathan Caton

Nathan Junior Caton is an English comedian.

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Paul Sinha

Supriya Kumar "Paul" Sinha (born 28 May 1970) is a British Asian comedian, broadcaster, quiz player, and doctor of Bengali descent.

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Phil Hammond

Philip James Hammond (born 1 January 1962) is a physician, broadcaster, comedian and commentator on health issues in the United Kingdom.

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Pippa Evans

Pippa Evans is a British comedian, known for her work in character and improvisational comedy.

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Podcast

A podcast, or generically netcast, is an episodic series of digital audio or video files which a user can download and listen to.

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RADA Studios

RADA Studios (formerly The Drill Hall) is a theatrical venue in Chenies Street in the London Borough of Camden, just to the east of Tottenham Court Road, owned by the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).

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Radio comedy

Radio comedy, or comedic radio programming, is a radio broadcast that may involve sitcom elements, sketches and various types of comedy found on other media.

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Richard Stilgoe

Sir Richard Henry Simpson Stilgoe (born 28 March 1943) is a British songwriter, lyricist and musician, best known for his humorous songs and frequent television appearances.

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Robin Ince

Robin Ince (born 20 February 1969) is an English comedian, actor and writer.

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Rory Bremner

Roderick Keith Ogilvy "Rory" Bremner,"Rory Bremner".

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Sarah Kendall

Sarah Kendall is an Australian comedian from Newcastle, New South Wales, now living in London.

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Satire

Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

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Schott's Almanac

Schott's Almanac was a best-selling UK reference book, published annually in the United Kingdom between 2006 and 2010.

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Shappi Khorsandi

Shaparak "Shappi" Khorsandi (شاپرک خرسندی, born 8 June 1973) is a British comedian and author of Iranian origin.

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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 comedian.

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Steve Punt

Stephen Punt (born 15 September 1962) company-director-check.co.uk.

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Sue Perkins

Susan Elizabeth Perkins (born 22 September 1969) is an English comedian, broadcaster, actress and writer, born in East Dulwich, south London.

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The Mary Whitehouse Experience

The Mary Whitehouse Experience was a British topical sketch comedy show produced by the BBC in association with Spitting Image Productions.

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The News Quiz

The News Quiz is a British topical panel game broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United Kingdom general election, 2010

The 2010 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 6 May 2010, with 45,597,461 registered voters entitled to vote to elect members to the House of Commons.

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United Kingdom general election, 2015

The 2015 United Kingdom general election was held on 7 May 2015 to elect 650 members to the House of Commons.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.

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2012 Summer Olympics

The 2012 Summer Olympics, formally the Games of the XXX Olympiad and commonly known as London 2012, was an international multi-sport event that was held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, United Kingdom.

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21 July 2005 London bombings

On Thursday 21 July 2005, four attempted bomb attacks disrupted part of London's public transport system two weeks after the 7 July 2005 London bombings.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Now_Show

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