Career: Tate's TV career began with small parts in serial dramas Casualty and The Bill, while her comedy talent was nurtured on The Harry Hill Show, Big Train, That Peter Kay Thing and Wild West, a series she made while pregnant. As well as her critically acclaimed comedy series The Catherine Tate Show, she has also appeared in Bleak House, on the West End stage and in the US version of The Office. The comedienne acquired a new set of fans when she became Doctor Who assistant Donna Noble; she reunited with co-star David Tennant in Much Ado About Nothing in London's West End during the summer of 2011.

Career: Kay won the City Life Northwest Comedian of the Year title and Channel 4's So You Think You're Funny contest in 1997. His first programme, The Services, was nominated for a Royal Television Society Award and led to his debut series, That Peter Kay Thing. His other acting work includes roles in 24 Hour Party People, Phoenix Nights, Linda Green, Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere, Doctor Who, Coronation Street, The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse, and Britain's Got the Pop Factor... and Possibly a New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly on Ice. He has also fronted commercials, lent his voice to various animated projects, released a number of charity singles, appeared on stage in The Producers in Manchester and Cardiff in 2007 and published three volumes of autobiography. He returned to TV screens in 2015 with new sitcom Peter Kay's Car Share.