Deborah
Stand-Up / Improv
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DEBORAH FRANCES-WHITE: "I am a Scorsese Movie"
Female
101 years old
Camden Town, London
United Kingdom
Last Login: 11/18/2008
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Deborah's Comedian Bio
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| Bio | Deborah is a stand-up comedian. In 2006 she performed at The Underbelly at
The Edinburgh Festival. Her show was called “Deborah Frances-White is Phoning It In”. Edinburgh fest review website Hairline wrote "Remember her name as in years to come you will see it among the big ones". Deborah hopes that this is true - otherwise that review has falsely raised her expectations.
At this year's Edinburgh Festival she is performing at The Gilded Balloon. Her show is called DEBORAH FRANCES-WHITE'S “HOW TO GET ALMOST ANYONE TO WANT TO SLEEP WITH YOU”. The show contains both jokes and practical advice - sometimes at the same time. It previewed in June in New York at The Pit. London previews are listed at "upcoming gigs". Deborah is the co-founder and artistic director of The Spontaneity Shop, the UK's premiere improv group. Deborah is also a screenwriter and just sold a screenplay to Fox Searchlight. She likes to make stuff up. She prefers if it's funny. | | Website | almostanyone.co.uk phoningitin.co.uk the-spontaneity-shop.com | | Influences | She has been described on Radio 4 as the love-child of Dave Gorman and Dame Edna Everage. She wishes her love-aunts were Mrs Merton and Joan Rivers - can you have love-aunts?
She also wishes she thought like Demetri Martin but she never will. She thinks Steve Hughes, Katy Brand and Charlie Brooker are geniuses but she’s actually glad she’s not cynical enough to be any of them so she can’t call them influences just people she admires massively. As a kid she watched Dave Allen for years and she thinks he was an early crush because of that three piece suit and whisky glass - does that count as an influence? | | TV Shows | Various bits and bobs you haven't seen - she made a pilot of DreamDate an improvised romcom show she invented with Pozzitive TV for ITV. She has not yet made a series but has sold the format to Fremantlemedia (American Idol, Thank God You're Here) so watch this myspace...For like about 5 years... And maybe something will happen... Either that or it won't. | | Films | None but she just sold a screenplay she co-wrote called"The Wedding Pact" to Fox Searchlight - it has a director attached. She now has various other Hollywood projects in the mix which has surprised her greatly and brightened up her 2007 no end. She will certainly be writing amusing cameos for herself so watch this myspace... | | Albums | She is working on a song called "Sugar Daddy" which she thinks Beyonce Knowles will be keen to perform. |
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Deborah's Interests
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| General | improv, writing, hanging with friends, going to New York, bantering with clever, funny people, staying in great hotels, meeting strangers. | | Music | Scissor Sisters, Sondheim, Simon and Garfunkel, The Killers, Mozart, Ash, Verdi, R Kelly, Kander and Ebb, Cold Play, Piefinger, Ella Fitzgerald, Oasis, Razorlight, REM, Queen, Greenday | | Movies | Chariots of Fire, Out of Africa, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, When Harry Met Sally, 4 Weddings, Green Card, Better Off Dead, Singing in the Rain, Chicago, My Brother is an Only Child, South Park The Movie, Cinema Paradiso, Shawshank Redemption, Annie Hall, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Manhattan Murder Mystery. | | Television | Scrubs, House, The Office, The American Office, 30 Rock, Peep Show, Father Ted, Black Adder, Friends, Frasier, Fawlty Towers of course, All seven series of the amazing, amazing West Wing - I really tried to like Studio 60 but it was impossible. (I also like X Factor and American Idol but I'm not proud of it.) | | Books | Great Expectations, Hard Times, Jude The Obscure, The Mill on the Floss, The Secret History, 84 Charing Cross Road, Underfoot in Show Business, Paradise Lost. | | Heroes | Ameilia Lanyer (first woman published in Britain in the renaissance), Milton, Helene Hanff (witty American writer). |
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Deborah's Details
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| Status: | In a Relationship | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | London | | Zodiac Sign: | Sagittarius | | Education: | College graduate | | Occupation: | Comedian/Writer |
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About me:
I'm a big facebook fan. Come visit me there. Also this picture of me is to promote my Edinburgh show Deborah Frances-White's "HOW TO GET ALMOST ANYONE TO WANT TO SLEEP WITH YOU". I don't normally have photos of myself surrounded by men trying to light my cigarette although now I've tried it I may do it more often. (Everything else is below in my biog - look down! look down!)
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Who I'd like to meet:
Mike Myers - I think he and I would get on really well. Mike you probably think you can't get in touch 'cause you're single now and I'd take it the wrong way. I wouldn't. Send me a message. Oh also Jon Stewart and I would hit it off I'm almost sure of that. He seems funny and clever. Actually if he got in touch I might take that the wrong way... on purpose.
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