Monday, 22 March 2010

Rory Bremner discusses  SATIRISES-Current Political Personalties on BBC.

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His Battle Bus goes around the UK.

Bremner contributed to Spitting Image and Week Ending and by 1987 he had his own BBC Two show: Now - Something Else. He later moved to Channel 4 with Rory Bremner, Who Else? where his output became more satirical and the sporting commentators gradually came to represent a smaller proportion of his repertoire. Having teamed up with veterans, John Bird and John Fortune, he now hosts Bremner, Bird and Fortune, which (along with its predecessor Rory Bremner, Who Else?) has won numerous awards. Occasional one-off specials are also shown, with Bremner impersonating Tony BlairGordon Brown and various other government figures. In the 1990s he became a semi-regular cameoturn on the Channel 4 improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway? and in 2005 he was a team captain on the BBC2 improvisational satire show Mock The Week. Bremner now regularly performs on Sunday AM, impersonating politicians, with a review of recent political events.

Bremner has translated two operas into English: Der Silbersee by Kurt Weill and Carmen by Georges Bizet[4]. He has also translated a Bertolt Brecht play into English.[5]