Andy Zaltzman

Andrew Zaltzman is a British comedian.

Since John Oliver went to New York to work on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Andy Zaltzman has performed a one-man stand-up show, written for Bremner, Bird and Fortune and appeared on BBC4's, Never Mind the Full Stops and The Late Edition. He has also appeared on Radio 4's The Now Show and The News Quiz. He performed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for the first time in 2007, where he won the coveted "Piece of Wood" award, awarded to the best show as voted by other comedians performing at the Festival.

In June 2007, BBC2's The Culture Show commissioned Zaltzman and John Oliver to 'ghost-write' a farewell speech for departing Prime Minister Tony Blair. The speech was then animated by Triffic Films, with the voice of Blair played by impressionist Rory Bremner.

At the Edinburgh Fringe in 2008, along with a nightly version of Political Animal at The Underbelly, he performed his new show "Andy Zaltzman Boldly Unbuttons the Cloak of Civilisation, But is Perplexed and Perturbed About What He Finds Lurking Beneath" at The Stand.

Mr. Zaltzman currently hosts, with John Oliver, TimesOnline's weekly comedy "audio newspaper" podcast, The Bugle.

External links

* [http://www.chortle.co.uk/comics/a/409/andy_zaltzman Andy Zaltzman on Chortle]
* [http://www.newstatesman.com/200508220031 Andy Zaltzman on is anything still taboo in comedy]
* [http://www.thestage.co.uk/edinburgh/reviews/review.php/13606/john-oliver-and-andy-zaltzman-detonate-70 Review of Zaltzman's Edinburgh 2006 show]
* [http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre/reviews/andy-zaltzman-the-stand-edinburgh-891301.html Review of "Andy Zaltzman Unbuttons the Cloak of Civilisation..."]