Two comedians from different ends of the comedy career spectrum take part in this week's editions of Richard Osman's House of Games – Kevin Eldon and Sarah Keyworth.
Keyworth, 29, from Nottingham, is one of the rising stars of stand-up comedy, having been nominated for Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer in 2018 with their first full length show, Dark Horse. Since then they have become a familiar face on television as well as a familiar voice on radio and podcasts, mixing serious subjects with a playful tone. Keyworth has appeared on Live at the Apollo and their 2020 Radio 4 series Are You a Boy or a Girl?, which explored gender fluidity.
It might be quicker to list the comedy shows Kevin Eldon hasn't appeared on than to list the comedies he has appeared on. Eldon, now in his early sixties, has a career that stretches from work with Lee and Herring and Steve Coogan and Chris Morris Morris on the seminal sketch show Big Train to recent appearances in Inside No 9 and even in The Crown. Eldon even had his own BBC Two series, It's Kevin.
One of his more famous sketch appearances was in a sketch recreating the notorious Sex Pistols appearance on ITV's Today programme, but replacing punks with members of the Amish community (factoid - Maisie Adam appears in it as Siouxsie of the Banshees, before she was actually a stand-up). Eldon has also worked regularly with Bill Bailey, including playing in a punk band with Bailey called Beergut 100.
Sarah Keyworth's most recent show, Lost Boy, was a comedy about grief. She spoke aboput it in a revealing interview in this Guardian earlier this year: “The show is about rediscovering silly and having to be a standup and be funny when you’re not feeling particularly funny. There’s quite a lot of stuff about grief, and the way in which grief turns you into a blob of a human being that has to just continue to exist in the world.”
Also on this week's show are former Strictly Come Dancing star Laila Rouass and 2012 Great British Bake Off winner, John Whaite.
Richard Osman's House of Games, Monday, December 12 - Friday, December 16, 6pm, BBC Two.
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