Background
Hamilton was born in Fulham, southwest London.
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Drop the Dead Donkey 2000
(It is 31st December 1999. For the staff of Globelink News...)
It is 31st December 1999. For the staff of Globelink News it's an uncertain and terrifying world. The civil war in Switzerland is intensifying, and Prime Minister David Mellor is stressing family values. And the editor of Globelink News, George Dent, has just found a dead body in the lift.
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Thatcher Papers
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- The Million Pound Radio Show (BBC Radio Collection) (A selection of sketches from the award-winning radio come...)
Andy Hamilton
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He was educated at Westminster City School which was then a voluntary aided grammar school and later read English at Downing College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the Cambridge University Light Entertainment Society (CULES).
Career
Hamilton first came to notice while performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the 1970s. In the mid-1970s he sustained himself by taking jobs at Harrods and the Post Office before joining the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1976. His early radio work, mostly on British Broadcasting Corporation 4 included, and The Million Pound Show (with Nick Revell).
He has since appeared regularly in Chelmsford 123, Have I Got News for You, The News Quiz, QI, and If I Ruled the World.
Hamilton is frequently invited as a panellist on The News Quiz and as a guest panellist on I"m Sorry I Haven"t a Clue. He is the voice of Doctor Elephant, the dentist in the children"s show Peppa Pig.
He was also the original voice of Bob Fish, who is also a dentist, in the cartoon Bob and Margaret. Hamilton is also voice of Captain Squid, the pirate in the children"s show Ben & Holly"s Little Kingdom.
On 16 March 2007, he co-presented British Broadcasting Corporation 4"s Woman"s Hour programme alongside usual presenter Martha Kearney as part of that day"s Comic Relief fundraising activities after defeating Richard Hammond and Kelvin MacKenzie in a poll.
Since 1995, Hamilton has written and played the lead role of Satan in the 4 sitcom Old Harry"s Game. He toured with his United Kingdom stand-up show Hat of Doom in 2008. In 2009, Hamilton presented the British Broadcasting Corporation Four series lieutenant"s Only a Theory with Reginald Doctorate. Hunter.
The Million Pound Show (with Nick Revell).
Works
book
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The Million Pound Radio Show (BBC Radio Collection)
(A selection of sketches from the award-winning radio come...)
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Drop the Dead Donkey 2000
(It is 31st December 1999. For the staff of Globelink News...)
- Thatcher Papers
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The Million Pound Radio Show (BBC Radio Collection)
