Rory Bremner's Career History

Originally posted on www.the-experts.co.uk

Born in Edinburgh in 1961 Rory Bremner was educated at Clifton Hall school and wellington College, before studying Moder Languages at King’s College London.

The first step on his long career came when he released the song “N-N-Nineteen Not Out” in 1985 as The Commentators. The song was a parody of Paul Hardcastle’s number one single  “19.” Although pretty much-unknown Bremner’s single became a hit in the UK spending seven weeks in the charts and peaking at number 13.

After his musical success Bremner later began his career in comedy when he contributed to television shows Spitting Image and Week Ending during the mid 1980s, and by 1987 he had been given his own BBC Two show called Now – Something Else. After his venture with the BBC, Bremner then moved over to Channel 4 where he cemented his trademark satirical comedy in the television show Rory Bremner, Who Else?

As the 1990s began Bremmer had a semi-regular cameo role on the Channel 4 improvisation television series Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Towards the end of the 90s Bremner enjoyed his biggest success when he joined forces with John Bird and John Fortune to host; Bremner, Bird and Fortune, which went on to win numerous awards and is still running today. This is where Bremmer’s trademark impersonation of Tony Blair was born.

He has since lent his comedic talents to television shows like Mock The Week, when he became a team captain in 2005.

Bremner has since ventured out in to a number of different mediums such as radio, where he has performed on Sunday AM, once again impersonating politicians, and presented his own BBC Radio 4 series, titled, Rory Bremner’s International Satirists.

He has also presented his own BBC Four documentary based around the history of the Scouts helping the British Army called Rory Bremner and the Fighting Scouts.

Most recently in his career Bremner embarked on a 20 date Election Battlebus Tour, which was done in conjunction with the 2010 general election, and was his first tour in five years. He has also translated two operas and Bertolt Brecht play into English.