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Andy Hamilton is a British comedian, game show panelist, director and comedy scriptwriter for television and radio. He has appeared in The News Quiz, QI and If I Ruled the World, and is an occasional guest panelist in I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.

He was born in Fulham, south-west London and educated at grammar school before reading English at Downing College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the Cambridge University Light Entertainment Society (CULES). Hamilton first came to major notice whilst performing in the world famous Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the 1970s.

Scripts

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Hamilton has written scripts for:

• Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979)
• Scotch and Wry (1980)
• Who Dares Wins (1983)
• Alas Smith & Jones (1984)
• The Kit Curran Radio Show (1984; with Guy Jenkin)
• Scotch & Wry (1986)
• The Return of Shelley (1988)
• Drop the Dead Donkey (1990; co-written with Guy Jenkin)
• Eleven Men Against Eleven (1995)
• Never Mind the Horrocks (1996)
• Bedtime (2001–2003)
• Trevor's World of Sport (2003)
• The Million Pound Radio Show (radio, with Nick Revell)
• The News Huddlines (radio)
• Old Harry's Game (radio, in which he also stars as Satan)
• Revolting People (radio; co-written with Jay Tarses), in which he also stars as Sergeant McGurk)
• The Two Ronnies
• Week Ending (radio)

External links

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• Official Hat Trick Productions Website Hat Trick

British radio writers | British television directors | British television writers | Living people | Year of birth missing