Peter Kay
- Profession: Writer and Comedian
- Place/Date of Birth: Bolton , 02 July 2020
BIOGRAPHY
Bolton’s Peter Kay has been an overnight sensation (well an over-3-year sensation at least). Having transferred from Liverpool to Salford University to study a HND in Media Performance, Peter was focused on his future very early on. With the confidence gained from his studies of stand-up Comedy, he decided to enter the 1996 ’City Life North West Comedian Of The Year Competition’. Much to his amazement, he won!
As well as touring the country performing stand-up, including a superb performance at The Royal Variety Show where his Southern audience enjoyed the show just as much as his usual Northern fans. A cameo performance presenting ’The Big Breakfast’ led to Channel 4 offering him the opportunity to make an episode of the Comedy Lab series: Heavily influenced by Victoria Wood, he produced "The Services", a superb spoof documentary filmed at Bolton’s M61 First Services in 1998. Channel 4 were that impressed, they offered him his own series. "That Peter Kay Thing" was screened in 1999 and consisted of six hilarious episodes, all filmed in the same style of "The Services".
Filmed on location in Lancashire and Greater Manchester, each episode looked at a different character in their everyday life (the local cabaret club, the bingo hall, the ice cream van, the MEN Arena, the road sweeper and the local rock-star-wannabe). At present Channel 4 has no plans to repeat the series, however Peter is continuing to fill large venues around the country with his stand-up act. Peter is one of those fantastic Manchester comedians that appeal to all ages, all creeds, all colours and all sexual orientations. Can he follow in the footsteps of Les Dawson, Mike Harding and Victoria Wood to become a household name though?
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