Neil Mullarkey

Neil Mullarkey
Neil Mullarkey
Born	Watford, Hertfordshire, England[citation needed]
Education	Kingston Grammar School, Kingston upon Thames
Alma mater	Robinson College, Cambridge
Occupation(s)	Actor, comedian, writer

Neil Mullarkey is an English actor, writer and comedian.

Early life and education

From 1972—1979, Mullarkey was educated at

independent school for boys (now coeducational), in Kingston upon Thames, followed by Robinson College at the University of Cambridge, where he was a member of the Footlights and was Junior Treasurer during Tony Slattery's term as president. He became president in 1982 with Nick Hancock, Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis as his contemporaries. Mullarkey formed Hancock & Mullarkey with Hancock, performing their act (which consisted of spoofing television shows' title sequences to that show's accompanying theme music) several times on television. This included Doctor Who, Kojak, and Dad's Army

.

Career

Mullarkey has been in a double act with Tony Hawks called the Timid Twins.^[2]

In the mid-1980s, he teamed up with

Edinburgh Festival

.

The two appeared as 'The Sound Asleep Club' on TV-am's 'Wide Awake Club', a children's TV show hosted at the time by

So I Married An Axe Murderer^[3]

).

As a founding member of The Comedy Store Players, he is regularly performing on the UK comedy circuit.^[4]

Theatre

He is a founder member of

Comedy Store

.

He has written and performed four one-man shows;

A Bit of Quiet Fun
Memoirs of Lord Naughty
All That Mullarkey
Don't Be Needy Be Succeedy

Don't Be Needy Be Succeedy won the Fringe Report Award for Best Satire of 2002. In it Mullarkey plays L. Vaughan Spencer, Life Coach, Self-Help Guru and Gangsta Motivator. The book Don't Be Needy Be Succeedy: The A to Z of Motivitality was published by Profile Books in November 2008.

Mullarkey starred with Eddie Izzard in the sell-out West End run of One Word Improv and has guested with The Groundlings in Los Angeles and The Second City in Toronto.

Television

On television, his appearances include:

Whose Line is it Anyway
The Manageress
Lovejoy
Smith and Jones
Saturday Live
QI
Have I Got News For You
Carrott Confidential
Paul Merton: The Series
Absolutely
Colin's Sandwich

He was a writer on Tony Hawks's show Morris Minor's Marvellous Motors and co-wrote (with Greg Proops) The Amazing Colossal Show for BBC2. He hosted American Freak for America's Comedy Central network.

He also does regular TV advert voiceover work.

Cinema

Mullarkey has acted feature films, including Leon the Pig Farmer, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Austin Powers in Goldmember, and Spiceworld.^{[citation needed]}

Radio

Mullarkey hosted Missed Demeanours for BBC Radio 4, was a regular performer on Bits from Last Week's Radio, co-wrote and starred in FAB TV and has appeared on Just a Minute, The News Quiz, Quote...Unquote, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, Loose Ends, In Touch and The Unbelievable Truth. He wrote and presented the documentary Ten Years of the Comedy Store Players.

References

^ "Old Kingstonians (page 2, par. 4)" (PDF). Kingston Grammar School. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
^ "Neil Mullarkey with Mike Myers, Nick Hancock, Tony Hawks – Double Acts Archive". allthatmullarkey.com.
^ "Neil Mullarkey details". neilmullarkey.com. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
^ "Neil Mullarkey profile". Spoonfed.co.uk. Archived from the original on 9 July 2012. Retrieved 19 March 2016.

External links

Neil Mullarkey at
IMDb
Profile, neilmullarkey.com
Details, improvyourbiz.com

[1] "Old Kingstonians (page 2, par. 4)" (PDF). Kingston Grammar School. Retrieved 21 May 2020.

[2] "Neil Mullarkey with Mike Myers, Nick Hancock, Tony Hawks – Double Acts Archive". allthatmullarkey.com.

[Neil_Mullarkey_Website-3] "Neil Mullarkey details". neilmullarkey.com. Retrieved 19 March 2016.

[Neil_Mullarkey-4] "Neil Mullarkey profile". Spoonfed.co.uk. Archived from the original on 9 July 2012. Retrieved 19 March 2016.

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