Dave
Parton
“Hilarious” – Edinburgh Guide — “stonking” – Chortle –”enviable” – Grin Reaper
Mister Happy. A middle aged grumpy old sod emotionally welded to the Eighties (when you could hear the words), with failing joints, failing relatives, and resentful of “Yoot”. Dave offers Grown Up Comedy for Grown Up Times. He’s miffed as billyo, and he’s not gonna take it any more.
Five years since he last appeared on a comedy club stage, Dave is back from the dead, almost literally. Long story.
Dave had become a career actor, having careered into acting by mistake you could regularly see him playing various “slags from the Jasmin Allen Estate” on The Bill, and doing everything except kick a ball on Sky TV’s football drama Dream Team. One day, whilst appearing b*ll*ck naked in an episode of How Not To Live Your Life,, the irony of the show's title was not lost on him. He dusted down his joke book.
An old promoter friend accidentally copied him into an email inviting people to perform at a charity show and Dave bit her hand off. Dave has been quietly gigging again at small venues, building a new, “mature” routine and gaining more friends with each performance.
At fourteen Dave was the country’s youngest commercial radio presenter/producer, before taking the mic in 1998. Dave co-founded BendyClocks, Britain’s first stand-up band, and ran comedy clubs in Wales. He reached the dizzying mediocrity of the BBC New Act of the Year SEMI Finals. TWICE! He appeared in Four Edinburgh Shows. He has dressed up as a South African adult baby. He has appeared in and written for loads of tv and radio shows. He passed a kidney stone on stage during his Comedy Store début. He has appeared in several films, including one which actually got released in a cinema and everything. He was the torso of Film Four and corporate spokes nude for a major diabetes drug.
Fact. Dave once shared an agent with Nasty Nick and Wee Willie Harries. Steady on!
