Andrew Lynford "EastEnders", Lynford started presenting various shows for television, including "Wild Thing", "Taste Today" and the comedy quiz "Arty Facts", which he also devised. He still acts and has recently appeared as Mike in "Making Time", a BBC pilot, and on tour in various plays around the UK. Lynford has also written a 1970s musical called "Disco Crazee", which was produced by Bruce James in 2005, at the Edinburgh Festival and subsequently toured Britain. More recently, Lynford directed "The Cheeky Chappie", a play about the comedian Max Miller, "Side By Side By Sondheim" and Ken Hill's "The Curse of the Werewolf"
Dave Allen (comedian) Gillen portraying the comedian. Dave Allen (comedian) David Tynan O'Mahony (6 July 193610 March 2005), better known as Dave Allen, was an Irish observational comedian and satirist. Initially becoming known in Australia during 1963–64, Allen made regular television appearances in the United Kingdom from the later 1960s and until the mid-1980s. The BBC aired his "Dave Allen Show" 1972–1986, which was also exported to several other European countries. His career had a major resurgence during the late 1980s and early 1990s. At the height of his career he was Britain's most controversial comedian, regularly provoking indignation at his frequent highlighting