Patrick Marber
The Friday Alternative
Friday, 2 June 1989
The Line-Up
Patrick Marber
Patrick Albert Crispin Marber is an English comedian, playwright, director, actor, and screenwriter. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002.
Ian Cognito
Paul John Barbieri (21 November 1958 – 11 April 2019), known professionally as Ian Cognito, was an English stand-up comedian. He won the Time Out Award for Stand-up Comedy in 1999. Cognito had an aggressive stage persona and a reputation as Britain’s "most banned" comic. Nevertheless, he was widely rated as a masterful performer with an innate grasp of stagecraft, inviting comparisons to iconoclasts like Lenny Bruce, Bill Hicks, and Jerry Sadowitz.
Peter Baynham
Peter Baynham is a Welsh screenwriter, stand-up comedian and performer. His writing work includes collaborations with comedy figures such as Armando Iannucci, Steve Coogan, Chris Morris, Sacha Baron Cohen and Sarah Smith.
John Hegley
John Richard Hegley is an English performance poet, comedian, radio broadcaster, musician and songwriter. He is known for his frequent appearances at literary festivals, and for his wry and surreal humour, mostly performance-orientated or aimed at younger audiences, and often sung or accompanied by music he plays; his material incorporates "a mix of anecdotes, jokes, idiosyncratic observations, confessions and surreal narratives".
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