Jeffrey Michael Tambor (born July 8, 1944) is an American actor most recently noted for his on role as George Bluth Sr. on the television series "Arrested Development".

Armando Iannucci (born 1964, Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish comedian, satirist and radio producer.

Tamsin Greig, born 23 February 1967) is an English actress best known for her comedy performances. As of 2006 she is probably best known for two Channel 4 television comedy parts: Fran Katzenjammer in "Black Books" and Dr. Caroline Todd in "Green Wing". Other notable roles include Alice Chenery in BBC One's comedy drama "Love Soup" and Debbie Aldridge in BBC Radio 4's soap opera "The Archers".

Mark Heap (born 4 October 1952 in Oxford) is an English actor and silver-tongued rogue best known for a variety of television comedy roles including struggling artist Brian Topp in "Spaced", the pompous Dr. Alan Statham in "Green Wing", and various roles in the sketch shows "Big Train" and "Jam".

Dame Thora Hird DBE (28 May 1911 - 15 March 2003) was an English actress. Thora was born in the Lancashire seaside town of Morecambe. She was the mother of the actress Janette Scott, and thus formerly the mother-in-law of the singer Mel Tormé. Her first ever appearance on stage was when she was two months old in a play her father was managing. Thora Hird was mainly associated with television comedy, notably the sitcoms "Meet the Wife" (a 1960s classic), …

Jane Waddington Wyatt (August 12, 1910 - October 20, 2006) was an American actress in films and television. Her most famous role was as Ronald Colman's love interest in Frank Capra's "Lost Horizon" (1937). Other film appearances included 1947's "Gentleman's Agreement" (with Gregory Peck), "None but the Lonely Heart" (with Cary Grant), and "Boomerang" (with Dana Andrews). For many people, she is best remembered for her television roles, …

Jon Canter is an English television comedy scriptwriter writing for Lenny Henry and other leading comedians. Canter was born and brought up in the Jewish community of Golders Green, North London and studied law at the University of Cambridge where he became President of Footlights. After a spell in advertising copywriting (and as a housemate of Douglas Adams) he became a freelance scriptwriter, setting up home in Aldeburgh with his wife, painter Helen Napper.

Miranda Hart (b. 1972 in Torquay, England) is an English actress, writer and stand-up comedian. Hart starred as "Teal" in the BBC television comedy sci-fi series "Hyperdrive", and has also appeared in "French & Saunders", "Nighty Night", "Absolutely Fabulous", "The Vicar of Dibley", "William and Mary", "Smack the Pony", for which she wrote and performed in a couple of sketches and a number of video diaries, …

James Young (1918 - July 5 1974), also known as Jimmie Young, was a comedian from Ballymoney, Northern Ireland who later lived in Belfast. He performed both on the stage and on television, as well as selling over a quarter of a million records. His stage shows are most closely associated with the Group Theatre, where his show gained a listing in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest running in the world.

Juana Molina (born in 1962 in Buenos Aires Argentina) is a singer/songwriter and an actress. Following the military coup in Argentina of 1976, Molina's family fled the country and lived in exile in Paris for six years. She grew up in a musical environment and her tango-singing father taught her guitar from the age of five. Juana Molina started her career in 1988 as a comedic television actress in Argentina on the show "La Noticia Rebelde".

Big Mick is a British actor, noted for his dwarfism. He is most famous for appearing on television comedies, first appearing as Jack Large in "Blackadder". He has also appeared in "Black Books" and "Green Wing". He appeared in the BBC's adaptions of four of The Chronicles of Narnia. In 1988, he played the White Witch's dwarf in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. In 1989, he played Trumpkin in Prince Caspian, and again in 1990 in The Silver Chair.

Hilary Bevan Jones (born 1952; sometimes credited as Hilary Bevan-Jones) is a British television producer, who has worked on several acclaimed drama programmes, including the multi-award-winning "State of Play" (2003). She did not enter the television industry until the age of twenty-seven in 1979, when she gained a job as an assistant floor manager at BBC Television Centre. Previously, she had worked as a teacher in Essex, …