Patrick McGuinness

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Patrick Joseph McGuinness (b. 14 August 1973 in Farnworth, near Bolton, Greater Manchester) is an English stand-up comedian and comedy actor famous for his work with Peter Kay, his friend since primary school, as hapless doorman, Paddy in That Peter Kay Thing, Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights and Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere, which he also co-wrote. Kay claims that McGuinness is not acting when he plays Paddy, he is merely playing himself.

When he left school he took a college course to do a BTEC 1st Diploma in Science with the intention of becoming a Lab Technician, though he soon realised that this was not a career he wished to pursue.

The next few years saw McGuinness undertaking various jobs including a silver service waiter at JJ’s A la Carte restaurant, a warehouse worker for Morrisons, a building site labourer, a lifeguard at Horwich leisure centre and a job cleaning machines at Warburtons bakery. He also worked in Corfu as a holiday rep for club 18 – 30, before returning to his job at Horwich.

Whilst still working at Horwich he filmed That Peter Kay Thing and Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights. He left the job when work started on the second series of Phoenix Nights.

McGuinness also appeared in the second series of Sky One show The Match, and has done a UK stand-up tour.

McGuinness hosted Inside Wayne Rooney on 15 May 2006 on Sky One, a program where he completed different tasks to see the difference between him and a professional footballer.

In 2005 and 2006, Patrick embarked on a 108 date tour of the UK whilst entertaining audiences at various sell-out shows on his The Dark Side Tour on his first ever solo stand-up tour. Whilst on tour, he reprised his role of Lord Love Rocket from award-winning comedy Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights.

He has also appeared on various TV shows, including his own Chuck Stryker: The Unknown Stuntman on E4 which he wrote and starred in alongside Jonathan Wrather and a few other familiar faces.

His DVD, Paddy McGuinness: The Dark Side Tour was released in early November and sold over 30,000 copies in its first week. The DVD was filmed at Blackpool Opera House.

McGuinness currently presents Unanimous: The Fallout, along with Olivia Lee.

On 29 November 2006, McGuinness hosted The Paul O'Grady Show whilst O'Grady had a well-earned rest for a week. McGuinness interviewed guest stars Emma Bunton and Michael Ball, took part in an assault course and attempted to sew a dress for Emma Bunton at the end of the show.