 Hatty Ashdown (Channel 4 presenter, BBC Radio
London) and Tony MacMurray ('The Office', 'Last Chancers') do funny stuff like stand-up
and sketches and things for the damn hell of it.
Comedy
to make you feel better about your life.
HATTY ASHDOWN
once interviewed David Threlfall (aka Frank Gallagher from 'Shameless') for Channel 4
radio. He made her cry. She also upset an ex of Peaches Geldof and was one of the last
people to interview James Brown although there is no suggestion she contributed to his
subsequent demise (it was very nerve-wracking, I spent the interview with my hands cupped
in anticipation, certain that his dentures were about to fall out). Hatty had a lovely
little slot on BBC Radio London called 'Hatty's Haberdashery' until one of her guests said
the word 'nipple' and the segment was cancelled. She was one half of 'Harry and Hatty's
Podcasts' for 4talent /the fix at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival and interviewed comics like
Reginald D Hunter and Rich Fulcher. Hatty is currently spreading her glee around the London
stand-up circuit and recently co-hosted a night at the BAC with Josie Long.
TONY
MACMURRAY was in two series of CITV sketch show 'Giggly Bitz!' where his most common note
from the director was 'Can you do that again, but less sinister?'. He was also in the
second series of 'The Office' where he stood next to and spoke some lines at Ricky
Gervais. Every time that clip of Brent doing the dance gets shown, he gets twenty quid -
result! Tony's most challenging role was as a man whose sock-puppet wearing arm had
developed a mind of its own and reared up to unexpectedly offer credit advice in a
baffling commercial for 'Egg Card'. He also played a big gay German fashion designer in
the film ‘Love and Other Disasters’ starring Britney Murphy and probably broke
all protocol by lustily kissing her goodbye at the end of the shoot. Tony devised,
co-wrote (with Adam Buxton) and starred in his own Channel 4 sitcom called the Last
Chancers which got a coveted 5 stars in Heat Magazine's TV Preview. Recently he has been
writing sketches for BBC3's Karen Taylor and ITV's Al Murray.
Hatty
and Tony Rub It Better (For Free!) is a mix of straight and character stand-up, plus the
odd sketch. We are sometimes together, sometimes apart but always thinking about how
we can ease your pain via the funny bone |
