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Bobby Bragg, top comedian, "King of the Warm-ups", currently working on My Family, Harry Hill's TV Burp, The Green Green Grass etc. Bobby began his "showbiz" career at the tender age of sixteen Working men¹s clubs and pubs. This led to summer seasons and pantomimes on the then thriving cabaret circuit. In the 70's and 80's Bobby played most of the country's top theatres, including the Phoenix, the Shaftsbury and the Palladium in London's West End. A Royal Variety Performance and his own show on the QE2 led to the first of many TV appearences, both as comedian and actor.
Shows include: - Bergerac, One foot in the Grave, Open All Hours, Wogan, My Hero, Brittas Empire and The Upper Hand. He was the voice of Dale¹s Supermarket Sweep for over 800 episodes.He felt so at home with studio audiences that he soon became known as "The King of Television Warm-ups", working on over 5000 shows, including the now legendary episode of Friends recorded in London. He recently played the part of the Compare/Comedian in The Quest 111, set in 1961, directed by and starring David Jason. Playing the part of Miller, Bobby recentlyt finished filming with Robert Lindsay, Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson in Stephen Poliakoff ’s film Gideon's Daughter, now released. And of course he played Pete Waterman to Harry Hill’s Simon Cowell in Harry’s spoof - At Home with the Pop Idol Judges - in Harry Hill’s TV Burp. His recent TV appearances include a one hour special for Channel 5 to be shown later in the year, and a guest appearance in the My Family special episode which went out on Christmas day on BBC1. ITV.
Bobby was recently seen in the role of Don the landlord of the Nags Head,
Peckham, in the film " Rock 'n' Chips", the "Only Fools and
Horses" prequel written by John Sullivan. Look out for two new episodes being filmed shortly for BBC1!
In 2002, in an interview with Hello magazine, the late great Bob Monkhouse told the readers that Bobby was one of his favourite comedians, saying: -
"I love his charm, warmth and style"