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David Armand Born September 1977 (age 34)
EnglandMedium Television, theatre, radio Nationality English Genres Comedy David Armand (born September 1977)[citation needed] is an English comedian, actor and writer who has performed on stage, film, radio and most notably, television, where the shows he has appeared in include Fast and Loose (2011 TV Series), How Not To Live Your Life, Pulling, The Armstrong and Miller Show, Swinging, and Peep Show.
He is one of the writers and stars of the hit CBBC comedy shows Sorry, I've Got No Head, and Pixelface. He has also written for shows such asThe Peter Serafinowicz Show and Katy Brand's Big Ass Show.
Born David Whitehead in the Northamptonshire town of Kettering,[citation needed] he was educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.[citation needed] As a member of the sketch comedy troupe The Hollow Men, he appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe four times between 1999 and 2002, traveled to America as a participant at the 2003 US Comedy Arts Festival in the Colorado mountain resort of Aspen, and to Canada for a performance at Montreal's 2005 Just For Laughs festival. The troupe wrote and starred in their self-titled TV series for the American network Comedy Central as well as two series for BBC Radio 4.
He is well known for his mime style interpretive dance of Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn" (in character as "Austrian interpretive dance artist Johann Lippowitz"). A 2005 performance was broadcast by HBO Comedy and subsequently spread through the internet.[1][2][3] The performance is often incorrectly labeled as "Karaoke for the Deaf".[4][5]
He performed[6][7] his famous dance on stage live with Natalie Imbruglia at the 2006 Secret Policeman's Ball for Amnesty International. The performance started with Armand dancing with Imbruglia singing live vocals backstage, then on-stage, and concluded with Imbruglia performing Armand's dance moves alongside him.
Utilizing the "Johann Lippowitz" alter ego, he has performed several other songs, including Paul Young's "Wherever I Lay My Hat".[8] and "Don't Look Back in Anger" by Oasis.[9]
Armand starred in BBC Three sitcom, How Not To Live Your Life as Eddie Singh, the overenthusiastic former caregiver for the late grandmother of the show's leading character, Don Danbury (Dan Clark).[10] He has also appeared in several online BBC comedy sketches under the title This is Wondervision.[11]
In 2011 he appeared on BBC2's improv show Fast and Loose, where he performed an interpretive dance routine to a different song each week. Two cast members had to guess the song title based on his routine.
References
- ^ "Armand's "interpretive dance" rendition of "Torn"" (2.1MB WMV). video. GPrime. http://video.gprime.net/media/video/tornmime.wmv.
- ^ The full "Torn" interpretive dance (without Natalie Imbruglia) on YouTube
- ^ The full "Torn" interpretive dance (without Natalie Imbruglia) at Google Videos (Adobe Flash video)
- ^ "Karaoke for the Deaf" on YouTube
- ^ Karaoke for the Deaf featuring David Armand at Google Videos (Adobe Flash video)
- ^ The full "Torn" interpretive dance (with Natalie Imbruglia) on YouTube
- ^ The full "Torn" interpretive dance (with Natalie Imbruglia) - different, unSONYfied upload of same video on YouTube
- ^ The full interpretive dance of "Wherever I Lay my hat" (That's my home) by Paul Young on YouTube
- ^ The full interpretive dance of "Don't look back in anger" by Oasis on YouTube
- ^ "How Not To Live Your Life, BBC Three, August". TV Scoop. http://www.tvscoop.tv/2008/07/coming_soon_how.html. Retrieved 2008-08-27.
- ^ "This is Wondervision". BBC Comedy. 2010. http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/show/p005y5yy/this_is_wondervision/. Retrieved 9 November 2010.
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Categories:- 1977 births
- Living people
- Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge
- English actors
- English comedians
- English comedy writers
- English television actors
- People from Kettering
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