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Johnny Vegas
Johnny Vegas

Johnny Vegas

  • 54 years old
  • English
  • Actor, writer and stand-up comedian

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Radio Times review

Usually the QI panelists scrabble about improvising madly as they try to answer Stephen Fry's abstruse questions. Yet both Johnny Vegas and Jason Manford come up with a correct answer (and in Manford's case an impressively comprehensive one) almost immediately. Are the guests getting smarter or the questions easier? Aisling Bea and regular Alan Davies can't compete with such esoteric knowledge. In fact she almost gives up after hearing about a strange northern pursuit involving larded-up legs. "The more I get to know you, the more I think you men are mad," she states. Oh, and you'll never think of the word "sufficient" in the same way after Vegas's revelation.

Jane Rackham, Radio Times, 10th October 2014

Pics: David Jason & Johnny Vegas filming Open All Hours

Sir David Jason and Johnny Vegas larked around on set as they began filming a new series of Still Open All Hours, the sequel to the much-loved BBC sitcom Open All Hours.

Daily Mail, 16th September 2014

Johnny Vegas's ancestors were criminals from the south

In ITV's Secrets From The Clink next month he looks into crimes his Bristol ancestors committed in the Victorian era and the punishments they received.

Peter Dyke and Katie Begley, Daily Star, 29th July 2014

Johnny Vegas made an honorary doctor of literature

Johnny Vegas paid tribute to his old English teacher after receiving an honorary doctorate in the subject from Edge Hill University.

Rob Pattinson, Liverpool Echo, 28th July 2014

Fringe 2014 interview: comedian Lucy Beaumont

'Johnny Vegas bigged me up and you need someone like that... There are not enough mentors in the arts'

Suzanne Black, The List, 22nd July 2014

Campaign launched to land Les Dawson a posthumous OBE

Les Dawson's friends and family are battling to win him a posthumous OBE. The late comedian's protégé Johnny Vegas is behind a Facebook campaign after it emerged Les was twice shortlisted for an honour but rejected.

Gemma Aldridge, The Mirror, 5th July 2014

Lucy Beaumont: northerners funnier than southerners?

The north and south breed different senses of humour. Johnny Vegas looks at faults in himself while Jimmy Carr deflects outwards. My new gag gets laughs in Hull and nowt in Windsor.

Lucy Beaumont, The Guardian, 25th June 2014

Cast revealed for Sacha Baron Cohen film Grimsby

Johnny Vegas and Homeland star David Harewood are amongst the actors joining Mark Strong on Sacha Baron Cohen's new film, Grimsby.

British Comedy Guide, 10th June 2014

Johnny Vegas at the Hay Festival

Michael Pennington says his comic alter ego helped him get over his traumatic childhood experiences at seminary school.

Karen Price, Wales Online, 23rd May 2014

Johnny Vegas directs new music video

With comedy star Johnny Vegas as the director, the new music video from Beautiful South comrades Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott was bound to get us all chuckling.

Dianne Bourne, Manchester Evening News, 1st May 2014

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