After some fun-packed festive shows Richard Osman is back with a new run of brain-busting puzzlers and a quartet of celebrities trying to win the worst prize in TV competitions - household items with Richard Osman's face on them. Up this week are Huge Davies, Amy Dowden, Humphrey Ker and Jamie-Lee O'Donnell.
Humphrey Ker is an Eton-educated English comedian but also one of the unlikely brains behind the Hollywood takeover of football club Wrexham FC. Ker made his name as part of the acclaimed sketch group The Penny Dreadfuls. He then went on to make his solo debut at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2011 with Humphrey Ker is...Dymock Watson: Nazi Smasher!
Since then, however, Ker has spent a lot of time working in America, appearing on TV shows including It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. It was there that he met Rob McElhenney, who played Mac. He then worked with McElhenney on Mythic Quest.
And when he and Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds decided to buy a football club McElhenney looked to Ker for some background and expertise about the game. When the deal was done to buy Wrexham he became Executive Director
“One of my main jobs is explaining football culture to Rob and Ryan,” he told Four Four Two magazine. “They are both very astute. But I told them that at some point, you’ll be at an airport or train station and someone will call you a c**t...That’s just football.”
Ker has been back in the Uk recently treading the boards again in Sherlock Holmes and The Twelve Days of Christmas, which features original songs by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber. It is currenrly on at the Birmingham Rep.
Interestingly Ker is crouching in the picture because he is one of the few comedians who may actually be taller than rising star Huge Davies, who will be known to comedy fans for his dark and twisted songs played on a keyboard hung around his neck. Which is not something you see every day. He is not an easy person to Doogle - when you put "Huge Davies" into the search engine the chances are you will get results for 6 foot 8 inch host of Taskmaster Greg Davies. Try Huge's real name Hugh instead.
Richard Osman's House of Games, Monday, January 5 - Friday, January 9, 6pm, BBC Two.
Picture Credit: BBC/Remarkable TV/Graeme Hunter
