Sam Bain (born 3 August 1971) is a British comedy writer, best known for the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show . He attended St Paul's School in London before graduating from the University of Manchester , where he met his writing partner Jesse Armstrong .
18-396: Bad Sugar is a British comedy pilot, written by Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong , based on an idea by the show's stars Olivia Colman , Julia Davis and Sharon Horgan . The programme centres on a wealthy, dysfunctional British mining dynasty, and is a parody of telenovela -style melodramas and soap operas such as Dallas . It was shown on Channel 4 on 26 August 2012. A full series
36-649: A BAFTA for Best Situation Comedy in 2008. To date, Bain and Armstrong have written two films together — the 2007 comedy Magicians , and, alongside Chris Morris , the 2010 terrorism satire Four Lions . Bain and Armstrong received the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award at the British Comedy Awards 2010 . In 2012 both Bain and Armstrong were featured on the TV industry journal Broadcast ' s 'Hot 100' list, highlighting
54-723: A chorus boy at Daly's Theatre in London in 1911 and joined the army in 1914 to fight in the Great War. During that time he continued his musical and comedy ambitions, organising his own concerts in Africa and the United Kingdom. After the war he worked in night clubs and hotel lounges as an entertainer in both comical song and dance. It was here that he met performer Montë Crick, who became Frankau's pianist in many subsequent performances and recordings. Ronald Frankau formed various concert parties in
72-529: A comedy duo with Tommy Handley called ' Murgatroyd and Winterbottom '. The two had originally met performing in Liverpool before the Great War. Like many comedians, he passed comment on current events of the time, often in satire. March 1939 saw his heavily ironic recording There's Absolutely Nothing Wrong at All . Among his many Second World War recordings were "Heil Hitler! Ja! Ja! Ja!" (October 1939), "Fanny's Been Evacuated Now" (October 1940) and "The Jap and
90-430: A naughty ogre took that princess to his cave, And how the little princess was rescued by a prince, And how they've been so very very happy ever since. Extraordinary! Wonderful! Fascinating! Queer! Marvellous! Incredible! Oh dear, dear! His other publications include Crazy Omnibus (Grayson & Grayson, 1933), and two wartime books of morale-boosting humorous verse, both illustrated by Laurie Tayler and published in
108-533: A review of one of his acts – "Mr Murgatroyd and Mr Winterbottom" – 'The story of Tommy Handley and Ronald Frankau, a comedy partnership which had its heyday in the 1930s world of radio. There was no straight man, so the partnership was considered a rare one. Tommy was a fast talking Liverpudlian, while Ronald in contrast was upper class and Eton-educated. Presented by Nicholas Frankau , actor and grandson of Ronald.' BBC - (none) - Arts and Drama - Mr Murgatroyd and Mr Winterbottom Ronald Frankau died at Eastbourne on
126-627: Is married to actress/screenwriter Wendy Bain. He was educated at St Paul's School , where he was a classmate of future Chancellor George Osborne . His father was TV director Bill Bain and his mother, Rosemary Frankau , co-starred in the sitcom Terry and June . Through his mother, Bain is related to a long line of noted British comedians and writers, including his grandfather Ronald Frankau , his grandmother Renee Roberts , his great-grandmother Julia Davis , and cousins Pamela Frankau and Nicholas Frankau . Ronald Frankau Ronald Hugh Wyndham Frankau (22 February 1894 – 11 September 1951)
144-470: The BBC Four political satire The Thick of It , and was the script editor for the second series of BBC2 sitcom Rev . In 2017, the black comedy Ill Behaviour , his first television series written solo, screened on BBC2 and Showtime . In 2018, Bain was hired to write the spy action-comedy No Glory by Valparaiso Pictures & Gary Sanchez Productions. Kumail Nanjiani is attached to star. Bain
162-617: The Pony and the children's shows The Queen's Nose and My Parents Are Aliens . They went on to create and write Peep Show , BBC One sitcom The Old Guys , and most recently Channel 4 comedy-dramas Fresh Meat and Babylon . They also wrote for the Radio Four sketch show That Mitchell and Webb Sound , starring Peep Show' s two main actors David Mitchell and Robert Webb , and its BBC Two adaptation That Mitchell and Webb Look . Peep Show has won several writing awards, including
180-480: The Sussex coast – as had his father half a century before. Frankau published a children's book, Oh, Dear, Dear ( Frederick Warne & Co. , 1929), poems from which were also set to music by his pianist Montë Crick and released on Parlophone . If you'd like to hear a story of many years ago, Then gather round, good children, and I'll tell you all I know. It's all about a princess who couldn't quite behave, And how
198-631: The Wop and the Hun" (April 1942). Despite his risqué tone off air, he was able to keep his jokes clean enough for some of the toughest British broadcasting censors of the day, including Baron Reith . In 1994, Jeremy Nicholas presented a programme on BBC Radio 2 to commemorate the centenary of Ronald Frankau's birth, which included an original July 1940 gramophone record of "Uncle Bill Has Much Improved", still bearing its BBC label: "NOT TO BE BROADCAST UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES". On 7 November 2006, BBC Radio 4 broadcast
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#1733085525219216-637: The early 1920s, of which the most successful was The Cabaret Kittens . In 1925, he started broadcasting saucy jokes on the radio in an Etonian tone for the BBC , but is perhaps better known today for what he was not allowed to broadcast. Frankau recorded a number of songs and skits on Parlophone , some of which, like "Winnie the Worm" and "Everyone's Got Sex Appeal For Someone" (October 1933), were banned outright. Despite, or because of, this flavour in his songs, Frankau sold over 100,000 records in 1932. In 1934, Frankau began
234-499: The early 1940s by Raphael Tuck & Sons : Diversion and He's a Perfect Little Gentleman, the Swine . Frankau had several children, including TV producer John Frankau, the father of Nicholas Frankau . Ronald had two children with the actress Renée Roberts , Roberta and Rosemary. Rosemary Frankau pursued a career in acting, appearing in the TV sitcom Terry and June as June's best friend Beattie. Rosemary's son, Sam Bain , became
252-517: The most successful people in UK television. In 2012 Bain and Armstrong wrote the Channel 4 comedy pilot Bad Sugar , a spoof of Dynasty -style soap operas, which starred Olivia Colman , Julia Davis and Sharon Horgan , all of whom also co-conceived the show. Bain wrote the novel Yours Truly, Pierre Stone , which was published by IMP Fiction in 2002. Bain provided additional material for episode one of
270-667: The trade. He continued in this career until the Great War ; he was a war poet, and subsequently a novelist, while his daughter Pamela Frankau would also become a novelist. Jack was killed leading his platoon in the Third Battle of Gaza in November 1917. Joan married the historian Henry Stanley Bennett and, as a Cambridge don in her own right, she was one of the defence witnesses in the Lady Chatterley trial of 1960. Frankau worked as
288-552: Was an English comedian who started in cabaret, before appearing on radio and in films. Ronald Frankau was born in London, the third child of Arthur Frankau , son of Joseph Frankau, a German Jew who came to London from Frankfurt in the late 1830s and started a cigar trading business. Ronald's mother was Julia Davis Frankau , who would later become a celebrated writer of satirical novels. His mother's siblings included Henry Irving 's mistress Eliza Aria and theatre critic and librettist Owen Hall , whilst their sister Florette
306-451: Was commissioned for broadcast in 2013 but cancelled before production with problems co-ordinating the main actors' schedules cited as the reason. This article relating to a comedy television series in the United Kingdom is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Sam Bain At the beginning of their writing career, Bain and Armstrong wrote for the Channel 4 sketch show Smack
324-539: Was married to architect Marcus Collins , a brother of Drury Lane Theatre manager Arthur Collins . Ronald's brother Gilbert Frankau stated that the reason why their mother "tacked the stage-famous ' Wyndham ' onto the 'Ronald Hugh'" in Frankau's name was "obscure". Frankau's siblings were Gilbert, Jack and Joan . Gilbert went into the family cigar business, living and working in Germany throughout 1902 to learn something of
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