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MICK MILLER |
| Comedy has evolved over the years & so has Mick Miller. He got his big break on ITV's New Faces (which was the premier talent show of its day), became a household name when he was a regular on ITV's The Comedians & has continued to work solidly ever since. |
| Nowadays, he is equally at home entertaining on board cruise ships, performing at corporate functions, theatre, cabaret clubs & the new style comedy clubs. He also co-stars with Johnny Vegas in the cult BBC comedy show, Ideal. |
| In 1976, Mick applied to go on the popular TV talent show, New Faces. He was accepted & won his heat & as a direct result, was signed up for a national tour supporting Chuck Berry. Other tours followed & in 1977 he was offered his first summer season in Morecombe. |
| 1978 saw him appear for the summer season at Blackpool's South Pier. The show was very well received & he was invited back the following year. It was during this season that TV producer Johnny Hamp, first saw Mick work. He loved what he saw & immediately offered Mick a regular spot on The Comedians. He appeared alongside such household names as Roy Walker, Stan Boardman & Jim Bowen. He loved every minute of it & is still close friends with many of the team. |
| After the success of that show, Mick was offered other TV work including Blankety Blank & The Little & Large Show. He was also given his own half-hour TV special by Granada called Success. Eventually, Mick was asked to co-present a series called The Funny Side along with Mike Smith & Cheryl Baker. Thanks to shows such as Des O'Connor Tonight, he has appeared on TV every year since The Comedians. |
| Coming up to the present, Mick has appeared on the cult sports quiz, They Think It's All Over & had a half-hour special on Sky One. This was filmed in front of a live audience at a famous London comedy club. He was also very proud to be a regular guest on the popular daytime TV show, Today with Des & Mel. In 2004, Johnny Hamp reunited four of the original comedians for a nationwide theatre tour. Mick, along with Roy Walker, Frank Carson & Ken Goodwin played to packed houses up & down the country. |
| October 2004, Mick entered the Kings of Comedy house. This was for a new programme made by Endemol & the idea was to put 'old school' comedians in a house with bright, new, young comedians - they would live together & perform various tasks. At the end of the week, everyone would perform in front of a live audience & one of them would be voted off. Mick finished 3rd behind Andrew Maxwell & his old pal, Stan Boardman. |
| Mick kept in touch with Andrew & also made a great friend of Scottish comedienne, Janey Godley who was also in the house. Janey later invited Mick on to her Edinburgh Festival show which proved to be a turning point in Mick's career. He felt invigorated by his time in the house working with the new breed of comedians & it gave him a new lease of life. He realised that there was more to working than just being the comedian who was on The Comedians! Tough decisions had to be made & he felt that the time was right to part from his long-standing manager which allowed him to have more control over his career. |
| Mick had become a cult! The younger audiences loved him & he gained a new respect from the younger generation of comedians. He was asked by Justin Moorhouse (young Kenny from Phoenix Nights) to appear in a charity show at The Opera House in Manchester. The show starred Peter Kay, Jimmy Carr & the cast of Phoenix Nights along with stars from Coronation Street. Mick was the surprise hit of the night. |
| New & interesting offers followed; he appeared in Andrew Maxwell's Full Mooner's with Noel Fielding (Mighty Boosh) at The Comedy Store in London, also recorded comedy shows for BBC Radio 7 & 4 and was a special guest on Lee Mack's Radio 2 show. Shortly after working at The Comedy Store in Manchester, Mick was asked to audition for the part of Keith in the cult BBC TV show, Ideal. He got the part & has now filmed two series. |
| Mick works around the world on cruise ships. He is one of the most in demand after dinner comedians in the UK & is a firm favourite on the live cabaret circuit. |
| In 2009, he toured the UK with comedians, Billy Pearce & Jimmy Cricket & starred in The Comedians Show on Blackpool's North Pier throughout the summer. |
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