The Comedy Room Andy

His stand up career began in comedy clubs before he was legally able to drink in them.  He performed his first full length solo show while still a teenager, and has become one of the UK's favourite current stand up comedians.  Enjoying a successful career spanning nearly two decades and still only 35, it could only be Kevin Bridges.

Order your favourite takeaway from The Lucky Panda, but don't resort to House Rice, as we discuss Clydebank's funniest son.  

This episode focuses on Bolton's famous comedy son.  A stand-up favourite as well as star of Phoenix Nights, Car Share and Max and Paddy's Road To Nowhere.

We're sure you will love this episode, so put your feet up, get some garlic bread and enjoy our episode about Peter Kay.

We'll also be covering Sean Lock comedy 15 Storeys High.

In this episode we focus on the former Blue-Coat turned household name.  From sketch comedy that started life on the Edinburgh Fringe in the late 90s, through to writing and starring in one of the longest running modern sitcoms, as well as Best Male Television Comic at the British Comedy Awards, three years in a row.

Andy and Verso also discuss the comedy of 2004, including Shaun of The Dead and Frank Skinner's sitcom debut.

Whether you remember him for pioneering alternative comedy in the early 80s, or for chaotic characters in some of the greatest shows of the last few decades, it is hard not to remember the late, great Rik Mayall.  Look up legend in the dictionary and the man behind Bottom's Richard Richard will be pictured there.

Andy and Verso discuss the great man's career and cast an eye over the comedy and pop culture of 1996.  

Making his debut on our screens in 1979 and still featuring on them regularly, Rowan Atkinson is one of alternative comedy's all time legends.

In this episode we discuss:
Not The Nine O'Clock News
Blackadder
Mr Bean
as well as many of his most famous films.

Andy and Verso discuss the sitcom career of Nicholas Lyndhurst, from his sitcom debut in 1978's Going Straight, where he played Ronnie Barker's on-screen son in a spin off of Porridge, through to more career defining roles.
Shows discussed are Going Straight, Butterflies, Only Fools and Horses, Just The Two of Us, The Piglet Files, Goodnight Sweetheart, After You've Gone, Rock and Chips.

The year in the spotlight is 2001, find out why Andy and Verso both have favourite shows launched that year, and of course, they are different shows.