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JETHRO |
| Jethro is the stage name of a British stand-up comedian. He was born in 1948 in St. Buryan, a small village in West Cornwall. |
| After leaving school, Jethro was apprenticed as a carpenter & then worked as a timber man in a tin mine. However, aged 18 he joined the St. Just & District Operatic Society &, in addition to his bass voice, locals found he had a talent to make an audience laugh. He began visiting the pubs of Cornwall to sing & joke & was quickly hailed as Cornwall's top comic. |
| Jethro made his TV debut on Treasure Hunt playing a pirate co-host. In addition to his appearances on stage & video, Jethro has made a record nine appearances on TV shows hosted by Des O'Connor. |
| His first appearance was on the Des O'Connor Tonight show in 1990, followed by a return for the Christmas Eve show later that year - the first time a comedian had been invited back during one series. He also appeared five times on Jim Davidson's Generation Game show, twice giving a demonstration of how to make a Cornish pasty. Jethro was also involved in one of the show's longest sequences of out-takes, removed due to his & Jim's uncontrolled fits of laughter but later shown separately. Jim Davidson has said that he regards Jethro as his favourite story-teller, one of his great stories being; Train don't stop Camborne Wednesdays. |
| He has hosted two shows of his own, The Jethro Junction on HTV & in December 2001 appeared in front of Queen Elizabeth II for The Royal Variety Show. |
| Jethro walked the 100 miles or so from Land's End to Lewdown to raise money for the Bristol Cancer Open Scanner Appeal. He gave a show each night at a local venue & in total managed to raise £20,000. |
| His great loves are his horses which he shows all over the country & with who he has won most major prizes, including Wembley Arena. He also runs his own venue, Jethro's Club, where he performs each year for charity. |
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