The Unbroadcastable Radio Show
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The Unbroadcastable Radio Show is a monthly live comedy show performed at the Comedy Store, Manchester. The show takes the format of the recording of a radio show, featuring topical comedy written up to (and occasionally during) the day of performance.
[edit] Cast
The UBRS team are (in alphabetical order):
- Helen Copley - a local actress, with experience of stage, radio and television work. Original groupie to Manchester band The Abodes http://www.myspace.com/abodesmusic.
- Toby Hadoke - a local stand-up and compere of award winning comedy club XS Malarkey in Fallowfield, as well as an experienced stage and television actor. Toby also won the inaurgural Les Dawson Award, for services to comedy.
- Peter Slater - local stand up who appeared in Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights, as well as other roles on television. Look out for him in the next series of Ideal with Johnny Vegas.
- Dominic Woodward - local stand-up and actor who studied at the University of Salford
Additional sketches are also provided by Tony Kinsella, a runner-up in the City Life Comedian of the Year.
[edit] Former/occasional cast members
- Alfie Joey - writer/performer/impressionist with extensive radio experience, who also worked as a warm up man for shows such as Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned and Time Gentlemen Please. A founder member of the UBRS, his many other performance commitments lead to his exit in February 2006.
- John Warburton - ex-showbiz editor for the Sunday Sport, who won the 2004 City Life Comedian of the Year competition. He also wrote the acclaimed book 'Hallelujah', a biography of the band the Happy Mondays. Although no longer a regular in the UBRS, his stand-up still takes him all over the country when he's not busy with his breakfast show on 96.2 The Revolution.
