| Paul Kaye | |
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| Born | 1965 Clapham, England |
| Nationality | English |
| Notable works and roles | Dennis Pennis Mike Strutter |
Paul Kaye (born 1965) is an English comedian and actor who made his name as shock interviewer Dennis Pennis, a fictional geeky American. Clapham is an area of South London, England, in the London Borough of Lambeth. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Nationality is a relationship between a Person and their State of Origin, Culture, association Affiliation and/or Loyalty The English people (from the adjective in Englisc) are a Nation and Ethnic group native to England who predominantly speak English Michael 'Mike' Strutter is a fictional character of an MTV UK & Ireland show Strutter. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience primarily by making them laugh An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works The word geek is a Slang term noting individuals as "a peculiar or otherwise odd person especially one who is perceived to be overly obsessed with one or more things The United States of America —commonly referred to as the
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Biography
Early life
Kaye was born in Clapham, London to Jewish parents. Clapham is an area of South London, England, in the London Borough of Lambeth. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ Kaye and his twin sister were brought up in Wembley where their father and mother ran a nearby schoolwear shop called Jackie's, first in Kingsbury and then in Kenton. Wembley is an area located in North-West London, England which forms the northern part of the London Borough of Brent. Paul Kaye attended Nottingham Trent University and graduated with a degree in Theatre Design.
Dennis Pennis
A well-known character of Kaye's is celebrity interviewer Dennis Pennis, written by Kaye and his friend Anthony Hines. With a shock of red hair, gaudy jackets adorned with punk-style badges, and thick glasses (worn, ostensibly, to reduce the likelihood of getting assaulted), Dennis literally stood out from the crowd and asked celebrities atypical questions, ranging from playful to cruel.
As Pennis, a character first seen in 1995 on BBC2's The Sunday Show, the basic premise was that Kaye and a camera crew would visit movie premieres, press functions, and other assorted celebrity gatherings to attempt to get an "interview" with the stars, in between short skits and sketches featuring the character. The Sunday Show was a British live television entertainment programme which ran for four series on BBC Two between 1995 and 1997
Originally, the celebrities would be mainly British stars harassed at assorted London-based events, such as actor Hugh Grant, TV host Ulrika Johnson and sports pundit Des Lynam. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Hugh John Mungo Grant (born 9 September 1960 is a British Actor and Film producer. Eva Ulrika Jonsson (born 16 August 1967 is a Swedish -born British Television presenter. Desmond Michael "Des" Lynam OBE (born 17 September 1942 Ennis, County Clare, Ireland) is a presenter on British television and A 1995 video release of these early clips, Anyone For Pennis, assured success for the controversial comedian, who sought to broaden Pennis' scope.
When the Pennis character took off, Kaye was afforded a budget large enough to travel to Cannes, Hollywood and Venice to record footage for his video VIP - Very Important Pennis, released in 1996. Cannes (kan in Occitan Canas) is a city in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Venice ( Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venesia or Venexia) is a city in Northern Italy, the capital of the
His victims from this point on were much more renowned, the most famous of which were Demi Moore, Kevin Costner, and Bruce Willis amidst a raft of other Hollywood A-list stars. Demi Moore (born Demetria Gene Guynes on November 11 1962 is an American Actress. Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American Actor, producer and Academy Award -winning director Walter Bruce Willis (March 19 1955 is an American actor and Singer-songwriter. It was apparent that these victims, in the absolute upper echelons of fame, were highly unsettled and unhappy with Dennis' unique line of questioning. Some stars, such as Costner, hurled insults back at him, while others, such as Moore, simply declined to comment. Pennis was visibly amused at the look of disgust on some of the stars' faces. There was some controversy when Pennis asked of Steve Martin: "How come you're not funny anymore?" Martin subsequently cancelled all scheduled press interviews. Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an Emmy Award -winning American Actor, Comedian, Writer, Kaye later stated it was the sole interview he regretted whilst playing the Pennis character.
The final video release, Dennis Pennis RIP: Too Rude to Live, released in 1997, saw the character killed off. In the video's plotline, certain members of the public take such offence to Dennis that they form a protest group against him, and the leader of the group deliberately provokes lawyer Mike Strutter (another Kaye character, see below) into strangling and finally bludgeoning Dennis to death. Kaye gave his reasons for axing Dennis as expense, the effort required to get a single usable interview, the notoriety of the character, and simply Kaye's own boredom and unhappiness with Dennis. Although the video consists partially of more celebrity interviews in the familiar format, Kaye also used this release to portray several new characters he had created. One example was Labian Quest, an eccentric upper-class composer who turns out to have written many of the best-known English football chants, such as "In your Everton slums" and "Who the fucking hell are you?" (in Quest's words, "a generic piece concerning identity and belonging"). A football chant, also referred to as terrace chants, is a term that refers to songs or chants sung at Football matches This article refers to the district of Liverpool For the football club see Everton F
The reasoning for killing off the character was stated as such by Kaye, "Dennis Pennis had become too expensive. Taking a film crew out every night with no guarantee of getting even a minute's worth of footage of me harassing celebs was just stupid. And then the programme would take months to compile, and it was just boring, man. . . . . hanging out in the rain, twiddling your thumbs, playing with your hip flask. . . . . . he had to go. . . . . . "
The character was also said to be killed off after a mockery of the pop star Simon Le Bon backfired.
Pennis remains unrevived, although Kaye in 2002 stated his intentions to bring him back in some form or other [1].
Post Pennis career
A character Kaye debuted in segments featured in the Pennis videos, Mike Strutter, has been the subject of his own video release, Mike Strutter Presents A Star Is Porn, released on DVD in 2003. Michael 'Mike' Strutter is a fictional character of an MTV UK & Ireland show Strutter. Strutter is a hard-talking pastiche character, mainly influenced by Sean Penn's star turn in the film Carlito's Way. The word pastiche describes a literary or other artistic Genre. Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an Academy Award - and Golden Globe -winning American Film Actor Carlito's Way is a 1993 gangster film based on the novels Carlito's Way and After Hours by Judge Edwin Torres. A loud and intensely vulgar American lawyer, Strutter is violent and unapologetic, and is frequently seen hawking his questionable inventions on mock infomercials on the Pennis releases. A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law as an attorney, Counsel or Solicitor; a person Infomercials (or informercials are Television commercials that run for one minute or for as long as a typical Television program Strutter is now a series on MTV UK comprising a 'clip show' with voice overs, studio links and infomercials for 'Struttergear'. MTV One is part of MTV Networks Europe. The channel is broadcast in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
Kaye also appeared as the singer of a fictional punk band called Spunk in a 1999 mock-documentary of the same name, which appeared as the 'wrath' part of a Channel 4 series on the seven deadly sins. Mockumentary (also known as a pseudo-documentary) a Portmanteau of Mock and documentary, is a film and TV Genre, or a single work Channel 4 is a public-service Television and Radio broadcaster in the United Kingdom centred around a television channel of the same name which began
In 2000 Kaye starred in the comedy series Perfect World, a sitcom about a down-on-his-luck marketing manager. Although somewhat coolly received, the show did manage two series, although a third has not been commissioned by the BBC. He also briefly presented a BBC2 quiz show, Liar, in which six contestants would all have a supposed claim to fame and the studio audience voted on which one they believed was telling the truth. In the same year Kaye took a dramatic role alongside Michelle Collins in Two Thousand Acres of Sky. Michelle A Collins (born May 28 1963 in Hackney, East London) is a British actress best known for her roles on television Two Thousand Acres of Sky was a TV drama which aried on BBC Television from 2001 to 2003
In 2004, he played the leading role in the film Blackball, which was poorly received. Blackball is a 2003 British Comedy Sports film about Cliff Starkey (played by Paul Kaye) a fictional rebellious young Bowls His role as deaf DJ Frankie Wilde in the 2005 mockumentary It's All Gone Pete Tong won him the Film Discovery Jury Award at the 2005 US Comedy Arts Festival. A disc jockey (also known as DJ or deejay) is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience It's All Gone Pete Tong is a 2004 Fictional independent Mockumentary about Frankie Wilde ( Paul Kaye) a DJ who It's All Gone Pete Tong is a 2004 Fictional independent Mockumentary about Frankie Wilde ( Paul Kaye) a DJ who The Comedy Festival formerly known as the US Comedy Arts Festival is a Comedy Festival held each year in Las Vegas Nevada. Television appearances in 2006 and 2007 include episodes of Hustle, EastEnders and Kingdom. Hustle is a British television comedy-drama series made by Kudos Film & Television for BBC One in the United Kingdom. EastEnders is a most popular and award-winning Television Soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 on 19 February 1985 Kingdom is a British television series produced by Parallel Film and Television Productions and Sprout for ITV. Kaye is now the chief interviewer on rockworld. tv, in which he interviews up and coming punk/indie bands.
Kaye recently appeared in Hotel Babylon (March 11th 2008, BBC 1) and Pulling (Series 2 Episode 1, March 2008, BBC 3). Hotel Babylon is a BBC television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen Edwards-Jones, first shown in January 2006
Personal life
Kaye is a huge Arsenal fan, and writes a regular column for their official magazine, however ironically he used to work for their bitter enemies Tottenham Hotspur. Tottenham Hotspur, ˈtɒʔnəm is an English professional football club which currently plays in the Premier League. As evidenced by his Dennis Pennis look ("a punkoid Woody Allen"), he is fond of punk music, particularly The Clash, and The Sex Pistols. Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1 1935 is an American Film director, Writer, Actor, Comedian, and For the debut album by The Clash see The Clash (album The Clash were The Sex Pistols are an English Punk rock band that formed in London in 1975 He has two sons, the younger of which bears the middle name of Strummer, as in The Clash's Joe Strummer. John Graham Mellor (21 August 1952 – 22 December 2002 better known as Joe Strummer, was the co-founder lyricist Rhythm guitarist and lead singer of the
Filmography
- Pulling Series 2, Episode 1 (March 2008)
- Hotel Babylon Series 3, Episode 4 (March 2008)
- Fight the English way (Mobile and internet video)
- Hustle - Series 3, Episode 5
- Waking the Dead - Series 4, Episode 6 "Shadowplay"
- It's All Gone Pete Tong
- Match Point
- Blackball
- Spaced Series 1, Episode 3 - "Hoover"
- Perfect World
- Two Thousand Acres of Sky
- Eastenders 9th April 2007
- Fight the English way (Mobile and internet video)
Awards
Kaye has been nominated for, and won , a number of film awards:
- Best Actor – US Comedy Arts Festival (It's All Gone Pete Tong)
- Best Actor – Method Fest (Nominated) (It's All Gone Pete Tong)
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role – Genie Awards (Nominated) (It's All Gone Pete Tong)
External links
- Paul Kaye at the Internet Movie Database
- BBC comedy guide to Paul Kaye
- Nov 4, 2006 Guardian Inverview of Paul Kaye & Mike Strutter
- Strutter @ MTV UK (adult content)
- Struttergear (adult content)
- BBC Interview with Paul Kaye about Two Thousand Acres of Sky
- Official site for It's all gone Pete Tong
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