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Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker are joined by Nabil Abdulrashid and Charlotte Church 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)
Nabil Abdulrashid
(Guest)
Charlotte Church
(Guest)
Tom Messer
(Series producer)
Andrew Beint
(Executive producer)
Danny Carr
(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.
Nabil Abdulrashid
(Guest)
Charlotte Church
(Guest)
Born:
February 21, 1986
in
Llandaff, Cardiff
Best Known For:
Her voice and boozy nights out.
Early-life:
Born Charlotte Maria Reed on February 21, 1986, in Llandaff, Cardiff. She was raised by her mother Maria and stepfather James Church. Her first public performance was at the age of three, when she sang the Ghostbusters theme with her cousin at a holiday camp. Her big break came when she was 10 when she performed Ave Maria over the phone on ITV daytime magazine This Morning. She subsequently was invited into the studio to sing again. She later appeared on Jonathan Ross's The Big, Big Talent show, and wowed the audience.
Career:
Church's first album, Voice of an Angel, was released in November 1998 and went on to sell 600,000 copies. It made Church the youngest ever artist to top the classical chart. She also performed live for various VIPs such as Bill Clinton, the Pope and Nelson Mandela. In 2000, following the release of her second album, entitled Charlotte Church, she sacked manager Jonathan Shalit and replaced him with her mother. She then decided to change direction and moved into more mainstream music. Her first pop album, Tissues and Issues, was released in 2005. She's also branched out into acting with movie I'll Be There and enjoyed success as a TV host on Channel 4's Charlotte Church Show. She released her sixth studio album, Back to Scratch, in 2010.
Quote:
'I just love food and hate the gym, and that seems to be a pretty curvy combination.'
Trivia:
Church performed at the University of Wolverhampton freshers fair in September 2013.
Tom Messer
(Series producer)
Andrew Beint
(Executive producer)
Danny Carr
(Executive producer)
