Education
University of Cambridge.
University of Cambridge.
He was head writer for Spitting Image, and has written for many shows including, Alas Smith and Jones, Dead Ringers and Alistair McGowan"s Big Impression. With Parsons, he has performed satirical shows in live venues in Australia and as part of the Edinburgh Fringe. Parsons and Naylor’s Pull-Out Sections broadcast its ninth season on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 2 during Spring 2007.
A compilation Civil Defense was released in 2003.
The duo also set up London"s first ever comedy sketch club to be announced, at the Gate Theatre in the nineties, and in the process helped discover many of Britain"s leading sketch performers including Armstrong and Miller, Tony Gardner and the Cheese Shop. In 2008, he created, directed and executive produced Headcases, a satirical Independent Television show very similar to Spitting Image, but made with Consultants to Government and Industry rather than puppets.
On the live circuit, Henry has been regular at the Edinburgh Festival, performing, writing and directing numerous sketch shows and plays (15 in total). In 2014 he was awarded one of the Festival"s highest accolades, the Fringe First.
He was also one of the international acts invited to perform at the Melbourne and Sydney Comedy Festivals.
His face is also known for playing Rowan Atkinson"s sidekick "Bough" in a series of 17 commercials for Barclaycard. In 2003 he was in the news for throwing a full English breakfast at David Blaine during his Above the Below stunt on the south bank of the River Thames in London.