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Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker are joined by actor Tom Davis and TV presenter Lorraine Kelly for a comic review of the significant moments of the past seven days. As usual, the hashtag #isitok paves the way for the gang to round up, examine and explain the leading and most entertaining news stories of the week
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Adam Hills
(Host)
Josh Widdicombe
(Co host)
Alex Brooker
(Co host)
Tom Davis
(Guest)
Lorraine Kelly
(Guest)
Tom Messer
(Series producer)
Danny Carr
(Executive producer)
Andrew Beint
(Executive producer)
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Adam Hills
(Host)
Born:
July 10, 1970
in
Sydney
Best Known For:
Hosting The Last Leg.
Early-life:
Adam was born in Sydney on July 10, 1970. He was born without a right foot and wears a prosthesis. He went on to study a degree in communications at Macquarie University in Sydney. His first taste of stand-up comedy came in 1989 at the Sydney Comedy Store.
Career:
In Australia, Hills is best known for hosting the music-themed quiz show Spicks and Specks. In Britain, he has hosted The Last Leg on Channel 4 since 2012. Since 1997, he has toured internationally with his stand-up shows. He earned consecutive Perrier Award nominations for his Edinburgh shows in 2001, 2002 and 2003. He regularly uses his artificial right foot as a source of humour in his act. He has also hosted the comedy panel show Monumental and quiz show Celebrity Fifteen to One. Hills voiced Buddy Pendergast in an epsiode of the TV series Thunderbirds Are Go.
Quote:
"Even when people talk about my disability, for a number of reasons I feel weird. There's nothing I can't do, so technically I don't think I am disabled."
Trivia:
In 2002, Hills released a single in Australia called Working Class Anthem.
Josh Widdicombe
(Co host)
Born:
April 08, 1983
in
Dartmoor
Best Known For:
Being a comedian and a regular on The Last Leg.
Early-life:
Joshua Widdicombe was born in Dartmoor on April 8, 1983. He has a brother, Henry. Josh went on to study linguistics at the University of Manchester. He began performing stand-up in 2008 and made it to the final of So You Think You're Funny at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival the same year.
Career:
In 2011, Widdicombe performed his debut solo show in Edinburgh and was nominated for an Edinburgh Comedy Award in the best newcomer category. Since 2012, he has been a regular on Channel 4's The Last Leg, alongside Adam Hills and Alex Brooker. He has also appeared on Mock the Week, QI and Have I Got News for You.
Quote:
"The thing about stand-up is that you end up meeting your idols."
Trivia:
In December 2013, Widdicombe won his edition of Celebrity Mastermind - his specialist subject was Blur.
Alex Brooker
(Co host)
Best Known For:
Co-hosting The Last Leg.
Early-life:
Alex was born in Kent in 1986 with hand and arm deformities and a twisted right leg which had to be amputated when he was a baby. He now wears a prosthetic leg. He studied journalism at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) and during his time there he spent a day working at the Liverpool Echo, wrote a column for a student magazine and was presenter on a student radio station.
Career:
Brooker was the Disabled Rights Officer for LJMU before he went to work for the Press Association on a trainee editorial scheme. His big break came in 2012 when he beat thousands of people to become the face of Channel 4's 2012 Paralympics coverage. He was a co-host on The Last Leg with Adam Hills, a nightly alternative look at the Games. In 2013, he returned as a regular on The Last Leg. In January 2014, he began co-hosting Channel 4's celebrity reality series The Big Jump alongside Davina McCall but did not return for the second series in 2015. He started presented The Superhumans Show for Channel 4 in 2016.
Quote:
"While we are advanced in this country in terms of our attitudes towards disability, there is still a level of unease about what you can and can't say."
Trivia:
He supports Arsenal FC.
Tom Davis
(Guest)
Lorraine Kelly
(Guest)
Born:
November 30, 1959
in
Glasgow
Best Known For:
Her friendly on-screen manner.
Early-life:
Born November 30, 1959, in Gorbals, Glasgow, but later moved with her family to East Kilbride. Her dad John was a TV repairman. She claims her family were far from being well-off, and that her first home had no running water, phone, bath or shower. After passing her Scottish Highers, she was expected to take up a place at university to study Russian and English, but turned it down to take a job on her local newspaper, the East Kilbride News, instead.
Career:
Kelly was a news reporter before landing a position as a TV researcher for BBC Scotland in 1983. It was not well paid and she worked as a waitress in the evenings to make ends meet. Despite once being told that her Glasgow accent would prevent her from gaining small screen success she joined TV-am as its senior Scottish correspondent in 1985, but didn't become a household name until she became co-host of Good Morning Britain in 1990. She's hosted her own weekday morning show since 1994; it's been known by various titles but is currently called Lorraine. Other projects include a Sky One show, a regular column for The Sun and her own fitness videos, as well as guest hosting Have I Got News For You and The Paul O'Grady Show. She began co-hosting Daybreak with Aled Jones in May 2012.
Quote:
"Being thought of as a sex symbol is hilarious and deeply, deeply flattering."
Trivia:
Kelly is a patron of the Association for International Cancer Research.
Tom Messer
(Series producer)
Danny Carr
(Executive producer)
Andrew Beint
(Executive producer)
