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Rory Bremner

Rory Bremner is widely regarded as Britain’s top satirical impressionist (‘a one-man opposition party’ Daily Telegraph).

As a mimic, he’s provided definitive impersonations of PMs and Presidents from Major to Mandela, Blair to Brown, Clinton to Cameron and Bush to Trump.
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As a mimic, he’s provided definitive impersonations of PMs and Presidents from Major to Mandela, Blair to Brown, Clinton to Cameron and Bush to Trump. As himself, he’s been presenter, writer, quiz-show host, actor, translator and even (briefly) ballroom dancer. (Strictly, 2011. WTF?)

Born in Edinburgh on 6 April 1961, Rory was educated at Wellington College and Kings College London, where he gained a BA in French, German and imitating lecturers. He speaks French adequately, German inadequately, and enough Russian to impress you for 90 seconds (unless you’re Russian). By the time he’d graduated in 1984, he was already performing on the London stand-up circuit and at his native Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and got his first TV series with the BBC in 1986. In a TV career of over 30 years, he’s won numerous awards, including 3 BAFTAs for his long-running Channel 4 satire series Bremner Bird & Fortune, featuring Rory and the two Johns.

In addition, he’s written and starred in satirical specials covering four elections, the Blair Government, (From Blair to Here, My Government and I) the Iraq War (Between Iraq and a Hard Place, Beyond Iraq and a Hard Place), the financial crisis of 2008 (Silly Money) and -back at the BBC- the Scottish Referendum (Rory Goes to Hollyrood, (2014)) and the Coalition government (Rory Bremner’s Coalition Report, Rory Bremner’s Election Report (2015)). He retraced his family history for Who Do You Think You Are, and travelled all over Britain for the ITV daytime series Rory Bremner’s Great British Views (2012).

Meanwhile, he’s guested on many other comedy shows (Whose Line is it Anyway, Spitting Image, Have I Got News for You, and Mock the Week, where he was team captain for two series) He was a regular guest on both Wogan and Parkinson and has frequently appeared on Radio 4’s Newsquiz, The Now Show, Radio Scotland’s Breaking The News and his own shows, Tonight and Bremner’s One Question Quiz. He’s also written diaries & columns for the FT, New Statesman, & Daily Telegraph. In 2013 he made his acting debut alongside Patricia Hodge and Caroline Quentin in Noel Coward’s Relative Values, directed by Trevor Nunn. (Theatre Royal Bath and subsequently West End). In 2018 Rory exhibited his impressionist skills on a weekly basis as regular team captain on ITV’s the Imitation Game. In the same year he re-joined fellow mimic Jan Ravens for a live show at the Edinburgh festival, which went on to do a sell out UK tour.

In his spare time (as if) he translates operas and plays from French (Carmen, (Spier Festival) and Orpheus in the Underworld (Scottish Opera)) and German (Kurt Weill’s The Silver Lake, (Broomhill Opera) & The Seven Deadly Sins) and Bertolt Brecht’s A Respectable Wedding (Young Vic)- the latter directed by Joe Hill Gibbons and starring James Corden.

Television

Pointless Celebrities
Self
BBC One2021
Countdown
Self
Channel 42019 — 2021
The Imitation Game
Pannelist
ITV2018
Rory Bremner's Election Report
Writer & Performer
BBC 22015
Rory Bremner's Coalition Report
Writer & Performer
BBC 22014 — 2015
The Clock
Himself
ITV2013
Face The Clock
Host / Presenter
Channel 42013
Rory Bremner’s Great British Views
Himself
ITV2013
Rory Bremner's Great British Views
Presenter
ITV2013
Rory Goes to Holyrood
Stand up / Presenter
BBC Scotland2013
Strictly Come Dancing
Himself
BBC2011
Who Do You Think You Are
Himself
BBC2009
Silly Money
Characters / Presenter
Channel 42008
Parkinson
Regular Appearances
BBC/ITV2007
Between Iraq and a Hard Place
Characters
Channel 42003
Bremner, Bird and Fortune
Impressions / Characters
Channel 41993 — 2010
Spitting Image
Characters
BBC1987
Wogan
BBC1985

Theatre and Live Performance

Quiz
Chris Tarrant
UK Tour2023
Rory Bremner & Jan Ravens
Writer Lead Performer
2018 — 2019
Relative Values
Crestwell (Butler)
Theatre Royal Bath2013

Radio

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
Self
Radio 42022 — 2023
Bremner's One Question Quiz
Host and Characters
Radio 42013
Tonight
Host and Characters
Radio 42011 — 2012

News

The new series of Museum of Curiosity with Sally Phillips as curator begins!

8th January 2018

The news series of BBC Radio 4's muched loved programme 'Musem of Curiosity' is back tonight, with Sally Philips joining the panel for the series as the curator

PBJ Presents Comedy At The Bush

1st February 2016

PBJ Management proudly presents 4 nights of the hottest, funniest and most surprising comedians in the UK