Career: In 1997 the quartet won the Perrier Award, and their subsequent radio series, On the Town with The League of Gentlemen, set in the fictional town of Spent, won a Sony Award. In 1999 the League moved to TV - and Royston Vasey - with subsequent series in 2000 (including a typically sinister Christmas special) and 2002; plus a film, The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse, in 2005. Outside of the League, Shearsmith has appeared alongside Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer in the comedies Catterick and House of Fools. He also popped up in Spaced and TLC. His other work includes Eric and Ernie, The Widower and Chasing Shadows on the small screen, and Burke and Hare, The World's End and A Field in England on the big screen. He has also appeared on the stage in Art, The Producers and Betty Blue Eyes. He re-teamed with fellow League star Steve Pemberton for Psychoville and Inside No 9.

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.

Career: Henry's sitcom debut was The Fosters in 1976. A smooth progression to stardom followed in the anarchic children's Saturday morning programme Tiswas, then Three of a Kind, Lenny Henry Tonite, and Chef! He impressed movie bosses in the States with 1989 stand-up film Lenny Live and Unleashed, but when True Identity flopped in 1991, he returned to the UK. He subsequently reinvented himself as a serious actor with Alive and Kicking, White Goods, and Hope and Glory, but has since returned to comedy with sketch series Lenny Henry in Pieces and The Lenny Henry Show. His stage debut in Othello was a major success. In November 2011, Henry made his debut at the Royal National Theatre in The Comedy of Errors, and last year starred in a stage version of his radio show Rudy's Rare Records.