Paul Riley is a Scottish actor and comedian. Still Game is a Scottish Sitcom, produced by The Comedy Unit with the BBC. The Scots people ( Scots Gaelic: Albannaich) are a Nation and an Ethnic group indigenous to Scotland. An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience primarily by making them laugh He is best known for his role as Winston Ingram in the Scottish sitcom, Still Game. Still Game is a Scottish Sitcom, produced by The Comedy Unit with the BBC. He previously worked on the sketch show Chewin' the Fat, the show that Still Game was a spin-off from. Sketch comedy consists of a series of short Comedy scenes or vignettes called "sketches" commonly between one and ten minutes long Chewin' the Fat is a Scottish Comedy Sketch show, starring Ford Kiernan, Greg Hemphill and Karen Dunbar. A spin-off (or spinoff) is a new Organization or Entity formed by a split from a larger one such as a Television series based on a pre-existing Again with Ford Kiernan, Riley starred in Dear Green Place, advertised as a "a gently-comic look at the working lives of Glasgow's park wardens". Ford John Kiernan (born 1962) is a Scottish comedian Along with his comedy partner Greg Hemphill, he is best known in the United Kingdom For other uses see Dear Green Place (disambiguation Dear Green Place is a Scottish Comedy programme set in a park in central Glasgow
On 1 November 2006, it was announced that Riley had been nominated for a BAFTA Scotland award for his role as Winston in Still Game. Events 996 - Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk Bishop of Freising which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA is a British charity that hosts annual awards shows for film television television craft video games and forms of animation He was up against Barry Jones and Stuart McLeod in their show, Tricks From The Bible. Barry Jones (born April 16 1982) is a Scottish magician. Jones was brought up in Portlethen, Aberdeen, and is one half Stuart Macleod is a Scottish magician. He is one half of Barry and Stuart. On November 12, Riley won the award, also picking up the "Best Entertainment" category as well for Dear Green Place. Events 764 - Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days [1][2] The Evening Times revealed that it was most likely that Dear Green Place would be turned into a full series for the BBC. The Evening Times is an evening tabloid newspaper published Monday to Saturday in Glasgow, Scotland. [3]