TS: Americans that are always on British TV versus Brits that are always on American TV

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Katie Pucrik! Greg Proops! Rich Hall! The "Hi, I'm Ed Winchester" guy! Versus that guy who was the game show host in Red Dwarf and was in that shit movie about a Scottish hairdresser.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

Simon Cowell beats Ruby Wax

― blueski, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

Ed Bishop!!

― Tom D., Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

Kelly Monteith!!

― Tom D., Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:10 (nineteen years ago)

You don't see him on TV much nowadays, huh?

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

I know, shame

― Tom D., Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

Tracey Ullman

― blueski, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

John Mahoney! Jane Leeves!

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

Jerry Springer!

― Forest Pines, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

John Barrowman!

― chap, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

It is weird that there are so few of you, and so many of us, that we have to import your talent. I blame it on...the public school system, and the U.S. being a gigantic, unwieldy beast of a country that happens to control everything.
Also, you're good at pretending to be American.

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

And good at pretending to be that particular kind of Brit that Middle America loves but doesn't really exist.

― chap, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

I'd never heard of Ruby Wax until I mooved to England.

― ENBB, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Does Rich Hall have any kind of media presence in the States?

― chap, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

Profiles of him always say "in the States best known for his Sniglets books"

― Forest Pines, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

I knew who Rich Hall was but you don't see him here nearly as much as you do in England! I was amazed. Also, Huey from Fun Loving Criminals seemed to pop up often on game shows and countdowns as a commentator. I don't know anyone here who could name the Fun Loving Criminals and a lot of people wouldn't even remember them. Over there, however, he seems to be more well known.

― ENBB, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

There was a thread about FLC's popularity in the UK over on ILM recently.

― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

I remember seeing Huey on Nevermind the Buzzcocks about three years ago and being incredibly confused.

― ENBB, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

I think Reginald D Hunter may become the new Rich Hall, ie the American comedian who's always on panel shows.

― chap, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I have absolutely no idea who RDH is and have been back in the States for two years.

― ENBB, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Richard Perle. He seemed to be on Newsnight every night of the week in the run up to and in the immediate aftermath of the invasion of Iraq, sneering at anti-war sentiments and gloating about the might and right of the USA.... funnily enough, we haven't seem him lately

― Tom D., Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

But then you've got Christopher Hitchens

― Tom D., Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

John Barrowman!

But he's not Scottish.

We've given America Hugh Laurie! Naveen Andrews! Dominic Monaghan (OK, you can keep him)! Henry Ian Cusick!

― ailsa, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Also currently John Oliver!

― chap, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

John Barrowman is Scottish by birth, isn't he? I saw him on that "Taste of Your Life" (or whatever it's called) programme on telly, and his parents still had very Scottish accents,

― C J, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

America has our Cat Deeley now.

― C J, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

We learned your imperialist ways, and now we own your charming accents!

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

Bah, I confused "he's not American" and "he's Scottish" and got it all wrong. Yes, he is from Glasgow.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

Mr. Belvedere! (for a time)

― kingfish, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

IIRC, Mr. B replaced Tattoo on Fantasy Island

― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

E! has acquired rights to Katie and Peter, an ITV series starring model Katie Price and singer Peter Andre, a Romber-esque duo who fell in love on the U.K.'s I'm a Celebrity! Get Me Out of Here and then had their engagement and first child's birth covered on their titular series. Katie and Peter hits E! on April 21....

Yay! Jordan+Peter 4EVA

― Nicole, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

believe me, if you see an American on your British television regularly, chances are we have no idea who that person is

― cutty, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, we're gunna need photos.

Rich Hall i remember from Sniglets/SNL/Not Nec. The News, and nothing else.

― kingfish, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

I think the last time I saw Rich Hall on US tv was on Colin Quinn's "Tough Crowd" comedian panel show, and that's been gone since 2004. I remember being surprised by how old and grizzled he looked, but then remembered it had probably been a decade since I'd seen him before that.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

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