Henry Naylor is a British

United Kingdom

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 comedy writer and performer, best known for his work with comedy partner Andy Parsons

Andy Parsons

Andy Parsons is an English comedian and writer, who regularly appears on Mock the Week. With comedy partner Henry Naylor, he has written and presented nine seasons of Parsons and Naylor’s Pull-Out Sections for BBC Radio 2.-Early life:...

 in Parsons and Naylor's Pull-Out Sections.

He was head writer for Spitting Image

Spitting Image

Spitting Image is a British satirical puppet show that aired on the ITV network from 1984 to 1996. It was produced by Spitting Image Productions for Central Television. The series was nominated for 10 BAFTA Awards, winning one for editing in 1989....

, and has written for many shows including, Noel's House Party

Noel's House Party

Noel's House Party was a BBC television light entertainment show hosted by Noel Edmonds that was broadcast live on Saturday evenings throughout the 1990s. It was set in a large house in the fictional village of Crinkley Bottom, leading to much innuendo. The show was broadcast during the...

, Dead Ringers

Dead Ringers (comedy)

Dead Ringers is a UK radio and television comedy impressions broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and later BBC Two. The programme was devised by producer Bill Dare and developed with Jon Holmes, Andy Hurst and Simon Blackwell. It starred Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Phil Cornwell, Kevin Connelly and Mark Perry...

and Alistair McGowan's Big Impression

Big Impression

The Big Impression, known as Alistair McGowan's Big Impression for the first three series, is a British comedy sketch show. It features Alistair McGowan and Ronni Ancona impersonating personalities from entertainment and sport...

. With Parsons, he has performed satirical shows in live venues in Australia

Australia

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 and as part of the Edinburgh Fringe

Edinburgh Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the world’s largest arts festival. Established in 1947 as an alternative to the Edinburgh International Festival, it takes place annually in Scotland's capital, in the month of August...

. Parsons and Naylor’s Pull-Out Sections broadcast its ninth season on BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 2

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 during Spring 2007. A compilation CD was released in 2003.

In 2008, he wrote much of Headcases

Headcases

Headcases was an ITV satirical animation show based on current affairs. It employed the same satirical style as Spitting Image, 2DTV and Bo' Selecta! but using 3D animation created by UK Visual Effects and animation house Red Vision...

, a satirical ITV show very similar to Spitting Image, but made with CGI

Computer-generated imagery

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 rather than puppets.

His face is also known for playing Rowan Atkinson

Rowan Atkinson

Rowan Sebastian Atkinson is a British actor, comedian, and screenwriter. He is most famous for his work on the satirical sketch comedy show Not The Nine O'Clock News, and the sitcoms Blackadder, Mr. Bean and The Thin Blue Line...

's sidekick 'Bough' in a series of commercials for Barclaycard

Barclaycard

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. He reprised the role in early publicity for Johnny English

Johnny English

Johnny English is a 2003 British action comedy film parodying the James Bond secret agent genre. The film stars Rowan Atkinson as the incompetent titular English spy, with John Malkovich, Natalie Imbruglia, Tim Pigott-Smith and Ben Miller in supporting roles...

, but the role was taken over by Ben Miller

Ben Miller

Bennet Evan "Ben" Miller is an English comedian, actor and director. He is perhaps best known as one half of comedy double act Armstrong and Miller, along with Alexander Armstrong. Together the pair wrote and starred in Channel 4 sketch show Armstrong and Miller, and the more recent BBC television...

.

In 2003 he was in the news for throwing a full English breakfast at David Blaine

David Blaine

David Blaine is an American illusionist and endurance artist. He is best known for his high-profile feats of endurance, and has made his name as a performer of street and close-up magic. He has set and broken several world records...

 during his Above the Below stunt on the south bank of the River Thames

River Thames

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 in London

London

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.

Plays

Naylor has written and directed plays for the Edinburgh Fringe, usually playing in The Gilded Balloon

The Gilded Balloon

The Gilded Balloon is one of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe's best-known venues, established by Karen Koren in 1986 in Edinburgh's Cowgate. When a fire destroyed the original premises, Teviot Row House in Bristo Square became the Gilded Balloon's main venue....

 Teviot Wine Bar. Finding Bin Laden (2003) was a satire about the media's representation of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq

2003 invasion of Iraq

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, which also featured co-director Sam Maynard's documentary photography. It received positive reviews, and Naylor has adapted it for the big screen; Hard News is scheduled to be produced in summer 2005.

Hunting Diana, his 2004 Fringe offering, was about conspiracy theories surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales

Diana, Princess of Wales

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.

In 2007 he directed Sarah Kendall

Sarah Kendall

Sarah Kendall is an Australian comedian from Newcastle, New South Wales, now based in London, England. She attained much success on the Australian comedy circuit since winning the Raw Comedy competition in 1998, regularly appearing on Australian television, before moving to the United Kingdom in...

's Fringe show My Very First Kidnapping.

External links

• Finding Bin Laden review
• The Scotsman Hunting Diana review