Lewis Macleod
- 54 years old
- Scottish
- Actor, writer and impressionist
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Lewis Macleod plots Trump Fringe comedy
A Donald Trump impersonator is to stage a Fringe comedy-drama about efforts to thwart a takeover by the US President of a "once-glamorous Scottish hotel."
Lewis Macleod, who was nominated for a Scottish Comedy Award for his mimicry of the tycoon, will join forces with the leading impressionist Ronni Ancona to stage Just Checking In, which will be staged at the National Museum of Scotland in August.
Brian Ferguson, Edinburgh Evening News, 23rd May 2019First live shows together for Dead Ringers team
Radio show Dead Ringers is coming to the Barbican Theatre in London for a limited run of five shows.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 3rd April 2019BBC Radio reveals Christmas 2018 comedy highlights
BBC Radio has revealed its 2018 Christmas comedy highlights. The Shuttleworths and Party will return, there's the 50th episode of Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!, and more.
British Comedy Guide, 22nd November 2018Jeremy Vine: Agony Uncle and Josh Widdicombe reviews
Reviews of Jeremy Vine: Agony Uncle and Josh Widdicombe Will Make Your Life Better.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 25th April 2018Scottish Comedy Awards 2018 nominations
The nominations for the Scottish Comedy Awards 2018 have been announced. Various stand-up comedians, TV shows and radio programmes are shortlisted.
British Comedy Guide, 7th March 2018Andy Hamilton to launch audio show about Donald Trump
Comedy writer Andy Hamilton is seeking funding for Inside Donald Trump, a new three-part audio documentary series about the US president. Stars will include Michael Buerk, Hugh Dennis, Ronni Ancona, Claire Skinner and Jimmy Mulville.
British Comedy Guide, 20th April 201714 comedy shows up for BBC Audio Awards 2017
The shortlists for the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2017 has been revealed, with 14 comedies in the running across the Best Scripted Comedy and Best Comedy with a Live Audience categories.
British Comedy Guide, 22nd November 2016Donald Trump's Newzoids puppet is truly hair-raising
The Republican Party's presidential nominee is the first of 50 new characters unveiled for the satirical shows second six-part series next month, as well as Hillary Clinton, Jeremy Corbyn, Adele, Danny Dyer, Zayn Malik and Bear Grylls.
Mark Jefferies, The Mirror, 3rd August 2016Newzoids to return for Series 2
ITV's topical animated satirical sketch show Newzoids is to return for a second series.
British Comedy Guide, 9th May 2016Red Top, the latest outing for the once splendid Comic Strip team, and we won't begrudge them a certain resting on ancient laurels, was an altogether mixed bag, as Peter Richardson and co gleefully ran rings round lawyers to bring us the purported tale of phone hacking and the Met, Rupert M and Tony B and Rebekah Brooks (played with peppy malevolence by Maxine Peake), set with a certain bizarreness in the 70s. Much was shambolic, missing easy marks. Wendi Deng as pastiche of Chinese sex ninja? But Johnny Vegas was great as the tabloid sleazehound turned Deep Throat, and there was great guilty joy at seeing Lewis Macleod as The Guardian's ex-editor Alan Rusbridger, played as a lisping, patronising Chris Biggins in a yachting cap and mincing below a banner reading "Never knowingly enjoy yourself". And the gang still managed, rather subtly, to skewer Brooks's implausible juxtapositioning of a reputation for micromanagement with that breezy verdict that said she knew nothing of phone taps.
Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 24th January 2016