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Phil Whelans

Phil is a comedy writer/performer. He does both in his Radio 4 sitcom, My First Planet and with his sketch group, Pros from Dover who were in The Infinite Monkey Cage and 28 Acts in 28 Minutes (Radio 4.) He’s written and performed with an unsettlingly broad spectrum of people on TV and Radio, from Chris Morris to Basil Brush via Joan Rivers and Brian Conley. He’s written topical mirth for the 11 O’Clock Show, The Big Breakfast and The Now Show, he script edited BBC Scotland’s sketch show Velvet Soup and Radio 2’s Jason Byrne Show. He wrote the animation scripts for KNTV (“Channel 4 at its best” The Guardian.) He’s done impro all over the world, appearing in numerous failed TV and radio impro pilots and he accidentally saved the planet when he wrote the script for big Al Gore’s Live Earth show at Wembley Stadium. He directed Phil Nichol’s Edinburgh Comedy Award winner, The Naked Racist and he plays bass in punk covers band Beergut 100 with Kevin Eldon and Bill Bailey..