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Neil Mullarkey

Neil Mullarkey

Neil Mullarkey was educated at Cambridge University, where he was President of the Footlights.

He's has been half of several circuit double-acts, with Mike Myer, Nick Hancock and Tony Hawks (The Timid Twins),, and since 1985 he has improvised with the Comedy Store Players, of which he is a founder-member.

Neil has written and performed four one-man shows , starred with Eddie Izzard in the sell-out West End run of One Word Improv and has guested with The Groundlings in Los Angeles and Second City in Toronto.

On television, he has appeared on Whose Line is it Anyway, Smith and Jones, Saturday Live, Carrott Confidential and more He co-wrote (with Tony Hawks) the BBC1 sitcom Morris Minor's Marvellous Motors and (with Greg Proops) The Amazing Colossal Show for BBC2. He hosted American Freak for America's Comedy Central.

Mullarkey has acted in films including Leon the Pig Farmer, Austin Powers – International Man of Mystery & Goldmember and Spiceworld.

And for Radio Four, he has hosted Missed Demeanours, was a regular on Bits from Last Week's Radio and has appeared on Just a Minute, The News Quiz, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and more.

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A new world record! And we're making it up

Bid for an improv first

A new record for the world's biggest improv team is to be set next month.

But it shouldn’t be too difficult, as there’s no existing record.

Comedy Store Player Neil Mullarkey will be leading the attempt in Barnsley as part of the nationwide London 2012 Festival of arts events coinciding with the Olympics.

Audience members have been told they don’t need any experience of improv – or even have to leave their seats – to take part in the challenge.

They will play the simple ‘yes and...’ game, where they reaffirm the sentence the person before them said, then add another piece of information. For example, one player might say: ‘It’s tough being an astronaut’ and the next might go ‘yes, and especially when we are trapped on the space station’ and the next, ‘yes, and there’s an alien loose aboard the ship..’ and so on.

Mullarkey already has one world record as part of the Comedy Store Players, who are officially part of the world's longest-running comedy troupe with the same core cast, as recognised by Guinness World Records.

World Record Improv! takes part in Barnsley’s Building 21 on August 10.

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Published: 7 Jul 2012

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Past Shows

Edinburgh Fringe 2000

All That Mullarkey


Edinburgh Fringe 2002

Don't Be Needy, Be Succeedy


Tour

Comedy Store Players UK Tour


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