David Armand Eye Of The Tiger

Comedian, histrion and writer from Kettering, Northamptonshire, England

David Armand
Birth proper name	David Robert Whitehead
Born	September 1977 (age 44) Kettering, Northamptonshire, England^{[ citation needed ]}
Medium	Tv set, stand-up
Nationality	British
Genres	Concrete comedy, slapstick
Subject(due south)	Popular civilization, current events

David Armand (born David Robert Whitehead in September 1977)^[i] is an English comedian, actor and writer who has performed on stage, flick, radio and most notably, television, where the shows he has appeared in include Fast and Loose, Episodes, How Not to Live Your Life, Pulling, The Armstrong & Miller Bear witness, Swinging, and Peep Testify.

He is ane of the writers and stars of the hitting CBBC comedy shows Sorry, I've Got No Head, and its sister testify, Pixelface. He has also written for shows such as The Peter Serafinowicz Show and Katy Brand's Big Donkey Show.

Early life and career [edit]

Born in the Northamptonshire town of Kettering,^[1] ^{[ citation needed ]} Armand was educated at Latimer Customs Arts College, St Catharine'southward College, Cambridge^[2] and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Equally a member of the sketch comedy troupe The Hollow Men, he appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe four times betwixt 1999 and 2002, travelled to America every bit a participant at the 2003 US Comedy Arts Festival in the Colorado mountain resort of Aspen, and to Canada for a functioning at Montreal'due south 2005 Merely for Laughs festival. The troupe wrote and starred in their cocky-titled Television set series for the American network Comedy Central as well as 2 serial for BBC Radio 4.

He is well known for his mime fashion interpretive dance of Natalie Imbruglia'southward "Torn" (in character as "Austrian interpretive dance artist Johann Lippowitz"). A 2005 performance was broadcast past HBO One-act and subsequently spread through the Internet. The performance is often incorrectly labelled as "Karaoke for the Deafened". He performed his famous dance on stage alive with Natalie Imbruglia at the 2006 Secret Policeman's Ball for Immunity International. The performance started with Armand dancing with Imbruglia singing alive vocals backstage, then on-phase, and ended with Imbruglia performing Armand'southward dance moves aslope him.

Utilizing the "Johann Lippowitz" alter ego, he has performed several other songs, including Paul Young's "Wherever I Lay My Hat". and "Don't Look Back in Acrimony" by Oasis.

Armand starred in BBC Three sitcom, How Not to Live Your Life as Eddie Singh, the over-enthusiastic caregiver for the late grandmother of the show'southward leading character, Don Danbury (Dan Clark).^[3] He has likewise appeared in several online BBC comedy sketches under the title This is Wondervision.^[four]

In 2011 he appeared on BBC2'south improv show Fast and Loose, where he performed an interpretive dance routine to a different song each week. Two cast members had to guess the song championship based on his routine.

In Feb 2012 Armand appeared as John in Alan Ayckbourn'southward Absent Friends at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London, receiving a positive review from Michael Billington.^[5]

In July 2012, he made regular appearances on the American TV show Trust Us with Your Life on ABC, performing interpretive trip the light fantastic toe to a popular vocal related to some attribute of the guest glory on that week's testify, which the celebrity (wearing noise-cancelling headphones) was challenged to guess.

He appeared in Comedy at the Hippodrome with Ardal O'Hanlon and Adam Kay in 2017.^[six]

References [edit]

^ ^a ^b "David Armand: Biography". IMDb . Retrieved 3 September 2019.
^ "Congregations of the Regent House on 25 and 26 June 1999". Cambridge Academy Reporter. CXXIX (33). 7 July 1999. Retrieved iii September 2019.
^ "How Non to Live Your Life, BBC Three, August". TV Scoop. Archived from the original on thirty Baronial 2008. Retrieved 27 Baronial 2008.
^ "This is Wondervision". BBC One-act. 2010. Retrieved 9 November 2010.
^ Billington, Michael (10 February 2012). "Absent-minded Friends – review". The Guardian . Retrieved 3 September 2019.
^ "Comedy AT THE HIPPODROME - Ardal O'Hanlon, at The Hippodrome Casino". world wide web.tickettext.co.uk . Retrieved 31 March 2020.