Johnny Vegas
Nacimiento : 1971-09-11, St. Helens, Merseyside, England, UK
Historia
Johnny Vegas is the stage name of Michael Pennington, the St Helens born actor, stand up comedian, writer and director. He is perhaps best known for his lead role as Moz in the BBC3 sitcom Ideal and for his role as The Oracle in several series of the ITV sitcom Benidorm. More recently, he has starred as the hapless Eric in Roy Clarke's Still Open All Hours alongside David Jason. In 2018, Vegas took the lead in a new BBC sitcom, Home From Home.
Ghost Of Christmas Past
Nobody actually likes bread sauce, do they? It tastes like someone’s eaten a piece of bread, chewed it up and spat it onto your plate. Merry Christmas.
Arthur Braxton Sr.
When an awkward, heavily bullied schoolboy from a dysfunctional home discovers a beautiful water nymph hiding in an abandoned Edwardian bathhouse, he must confront his own personal demons in order to save them both from the depraved custodian who keeps the enchanted waters alive with the ritual sacrifice of children.
Rex
A weedy charity-shop worker is set on winning the big national talent show. But when the actions of 5 selfish people cause him to miss his audition, he sets out to seek deathly revenge.
Terry
Terry and Gemma are forced to take refuge in a sinister and dilapidated caravan park after their coach breaks down. During the unplanned stay, visitors and residents begin to be bumped off one by one under grizzly circumstances.
Himself
Documental sobre el excéntrico comediante Frank Sidebottom, conocido por llevar siempre puesta una cabeza creada con papel maché y cuya verdadera identidad no se supo hasta algún tiempo después de haber fallecido. La película "Frank", estrenada en 2014 y producida por Magnolia Pictures, estaba basada en su personaje.
Russell
Tales From The Lodge is a fresh take on the portmanteau horror-comedy genre. An isolated lodge somewhere in England. Five old university pals, now nudging 40, gather for a weekend to scatter the ashes of their friend, Jonesy, who drowned himself in the lake three years earlier. They settle in for a fun evening, entertaining each other with stories of murders, ghosts, zombies and possessions, but as day turns to night, the gang become aware of another horror story unfolding around them - And this one is real.
Spiggy
A new republican prime minister strips the British monarch and her family of their money and assets, and forces them to live on a rundown council estate.
Terry
Draper's Tours are taking Mildred and her care home friends on an overnight ferry trip from North Shields to Amsterdam, where things will quickly turn turbulent as the passengers and crew begin to get bumped off one-by-one. Throughout it all, Terry is still desperate to pop the question to Gemma, even if the circumstances are less than romantic.
Ray
Omar and Pete are half brothers. When their parents are eaten by lions they embark on a journey to find Omar's real father. What follows is a funny, heart-warming journey of self-discovery for both boys...in Blackpool. The Choudray family represents a truly contemporary example of modern multicultural Britain - but what will the brothers make of their eccentric newfound family? Will they be going to Mecca or Mecca bingo? In contrast to the old fashioned stereotypes about Blackpool, the comedy is sharp, current and non-stop.
Asbo (voice)
Dug y su compinche, el jabalí Hognob, unen a una tribu de cavernícolas para salvar su valle escondido del expolio y, todos juntos como equipo, para enfrentar la amenaza de un misterioso y poderoso enemigo en el césped de un antiguo y sagrado deporte.
Terry
A Blackpool coach driver and a tour guide get caught up in a deadly comedic conspiracy when bus passengers begin mysteriously dying one by one.
Apothecary
Drama ambientado en el siglo XVII en Holanda, durante una época donde un solo bulbo del tulipán costaba casi 10 veces más que el sueldo medio. La película nos cuenta la historia de un pintor que se enamora de una joven recién casada mientras le está pintando el retrato que le han encargado. Ambos invertirán en el negocio de los tulipanes con el propósito de ganar un dinero que les sirva para crear un futuro juntos.
Himself - Narrator (voice)
The UK has seen a massive growth in the number of all-you-can-eat restaurants offering limitless servings of food for a fixed price. How do such businesses remain profitable and is it possible to beat the system?
Milky Pimms
Un implacable agente del MI6 británico (Mark Strong), del grupo de operaciones especiales, descubre que tiene un hermano (Sacha Baron Cohen) muy diferente a él: fanático del fútbol y protagonista de numerosos y disparatados altercados dado su peculiar y conflictivo carácter.
Alan (Johnny Vegas) searches for answers in all the wrong places and this time he thinks he's found them...on the internet in the form of a highly trained deadly assassin. But he's about to learn the true price of entering the 'dark_net'.
Johnny
Comic fantasy telling the story of Rebekah, an innocent and beguiling Northern girl who accidentally becomes Chief Executive of News International and gets caught up in a seventies Watergate-style scandal.
Himself
A one-off 90 minute special in which Keith Lemon pays tribute to the iconic Back To The Future films.
Abu (voice)
Harry Hill embarks on a road trip to Blackpool with his Nan when he discovers that his hamster only has one week to live.
Director
In 1973 Ricky Tomilinson was imprisoned for unlawful assembly and conspiracy when picketing for support in Britain’s first National Building Strike a year earlier. During the course of Ricky’s sentence when he refused to conform, wear prison clothing, work and suffered on hunger strike he met a sympathetic and wise prison governor who introduced prisoner Tomlinson to Tressell’s great novel.
Dad
Chloe recedes into herself due to her family's uncaring attitude towards her. When she meets Mr. Stink, a smelly man, she invites him to live in her garden shed.
Brian (voice)
Marjorie the cow lives in a run-down stable in the middle of Bethlehem. Nothing exciting ever happens in Bethlehem until now… there’s a census or something and there’s going to be some sort of street party – that’s what Marje has heard, anyway!
Himself
For the first time ever, Johnny Vegas' full length stand up show storms onto DVD. The larger than life comedian and star of Benidorm, Ideal and 'those ads' bursts onto DVD in a triumphant return to the sun, sand, sea and sangria of Benidorm.
Al
Monkey portrays various historical figures as he attempts to make the perfect cup of tea in the Kenya tea farms and then safely take it across the world to England for the Queen.
Self
Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed programmes ever made, The 50 Greatest Television Dramas presents a long overdue assessment of the rich heritage television drama has to offer. Channel 4 invited over 200 of Britain's top television drama professionals – writers, directors, producers and commissioners – to take part in an exclusive poll to discover what they consider the finest dramas ever produced.
Shot live at the one off Comic Aid benefit gig at London’s Carling Apollo – which sold out in just three and a half minutes of tickets being put on sale – the DVD features the entire uncut show for all those unfortunate enough to have missed out on tickets. The 3 hour show sees Jonathan Ross, Jack Dee, Graham Norton, Julian Clary, and Lily Savage host a stellar comic line-up that includes; Lee Evans, Dawn French, Jimmy Carr, Ardal O’Hanlon, Johnny Vegas, Bill Bailey, Bo’ Selecta! star The Bear, Jo Brand, Jon Culshaw, Omid Djalili, Otis Lee Crenshaw, Eddie Izzard, The League Of Gentlemen with Miranda Richardson, Alistair McGowan, Dylan Moran, Dave Spikey, Simon Pegg & Jessica Stevenson. Psychological illusionist Derren Brown and international percussion sensation Stomp also present their own unique blend of stage entertainment.
Blake
Intergalactic revolutionaries "Blake's 7" make an eventful late night stop at Newport Pagnell Services on the M1.
Sackville
Londres, 1660, Época de la Restauración. En un periodo en el que tienen lugar constantes descubrimientos y progresos en el mundo de la ciencia, la religión y las artes, vive el decadente John Wilmot (Johnny Depp), Conde de Rochester, amigo y confidente del rey Carlos II de Inglaterra (John Malkovich). Wilmot, destacado poeta, dramaturgo, soldado y cortesano, mujeriego, hedonista y libertino, es uno de los personajes más peculiares e influyentes del siglo XVII.
Dave
Mackenzie Crook y Johnny Vegas protagonizan a un par de ligones, los "Butch Cassidy y Sundance Kid" de Birmingham, en esta comedia británica acerca de dos tipos de los bajos fondos con activas vidas sexuales que trabajan repartiendo patatas en restaurantes y verdulerías.
Writer
Johnny Vegas has crawled his way to the top of the showbiz ladder. Fame, wealth and awards are his but there's a problem...he's lost his edge. He's no longer funny and the fans have begun to take notice... The solution? Return Vegas to his stand-up roots - The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. How? Kidnap Johnny and surround him with a mad lifestyle manager, a meglomaniac sponsor and his obsessive comic flatmate who should've been sectioned years ago. Then just sit back, watch his world fall apart and hope his new found misery means he can reclaim his place amongst stand-up comedy's finest with hilarious results! Succeed or fail, one question must be answered...Who's Ready For Ice Cream?
Self
Johnny Vegas has crawled his way to the top of the showbiz ladder. Fame, wealth and awards are his but there's a problem...he's lost his edge. He's no longer funny and the fans have begun to take notice... The solution? Return Vegas to his stand-up roots - The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. How? Kidnap Johnny and surround him with a mad lifestyle manager, a meglomaniac sponsor and his obsessive comic flatmate who should've been sectioned years ago. Then just sit back, watch his world fall apart and hope his new found misery means he can reclaim his place amongst stand-up comedy's finest with hilarious results! Succeed or fail, one question must be answered...Who's Ready For Ice Cream?
Alf Price
Consumed with sadness after the death of his wife and subsequent rejection from his son, a widower, at the urging of his friends, opts to appear on a vulgar, wildly popular game show (for which his wife signed him up) and watches his life start to change for the better.
Trevor
Blackball follows the fortunes of Cliff Starkey, a working-class fine of lawn bowls with an exceptional talent. Wanting to take on the Aussies he manages to become regional champion, only to get banned. Sports agent Rich Schwartz picks him up and makes him so popular the Bowls Committee deem to lift the ban. Now the question is whether he can regain his form and his friends to beat the Aussies.
Jackie Symes
Cuando una chica de 12 años encuentra una estatua de la Virgen abandonada en un suburbio de Liverpool, no parará hasta que le encuentre un nuevo hogar, a pesar de las objeciones y reticencias de su divertida y peculiar familia. La búsqueda le reportará nuevos amigos, situaciones hilarantes y más problemas de los que ella imaginaba...
Self
Documentary charting the Derek and Clive phenomenon. The two foul-mouthed toilet attendants were the creations of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore and were responsible for some of the filthiest comedy to come out of Britain. Despite being banned from radio and television the duo achieved great success and a cult status, but the act broke up one of the greatest comedy partnerships of recent years. Featuring excerpts from the actual records and video footage of Cook and Moore.
Frank O'Hanlon
Set in 1990 on an Air Force base in the mid-Atlantic. Billy is desperate to listen to his team Middlesborough, play Newcastle United. But Billy's quest for diversion masks an unspoken trauma in his past which he is forced to confront.
Self
El juicio final está cada vez más cerca. Jesucristo ha vuelto a la tierra para llevar a cabo una última misión, antes de juzgar a la Humanidad por sus pecados. Esta misión consiste en acabar de una vez por todas con un ejército de vampiros capaz de resistir la luz del día.
Himself
Voted as Britain's funniest man Johnny Vegas hosts his first ever entertainment series. Re-live the best bits of the hit show Johnny Vegas:18 Stone of Idiot as Johnny invites you into his bizarre but comical world.Vegas is joined by a host of celebrity guests Ray Winstone, Kathy Burke, Elvis Costello, David Soul, Huey Morgan and Rhys Ifans who he interviews in his own unique way. For the first time ever the very best bits from the series are presented here on this essential jam-packed DVD alongside all the bits too outrageous for TV and loads of never-before-seen material. This is Johnny at his crude, rude, hilarious best!