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Alistair McGowan (born 24^th November 1964) is an impressionist, stand-up comic, actor, director and writer best known to British audiences for The Big Impression (formerly Alistair McGowan's Big Impression) which was, for four years, one of BBC1's top-rating comedy programmes - winning numerous awards, including a BAFTA.

He has also worked extensively in theatre and appeared in the West End in Art, Cabaret, The Mikado, Pygmalion and Little Shop of Horrors (for which he received an Olivier nomination.)

As an actor on television he played the lead role in BBC1's 'Mayo' and, on film, played Nico in 'Driving Aphrodite' alongside Nia Vardalos. He wrote the play 'Timing' (nominated as 'Best New Comedy' at the whatsonstage.com awards) and the book 'A Matter of Life and Death' or 'How To Wean Your Man of Football' with former comedy partner Ronni Ancona. He also provided voices for the iconic 'Spitting Image'.

Most recently, he  played the evil Piero de Medici in the first series of 'Leonardo' for CBBC and is about to return to mainstream television in June 2012 as the star of ITV's new prime-time Saturday night show 'You Cannot Be Serious' which takes a topical and sideways look at the world of sport.

TO BOOK TICKETS FOR THE RECORDINGS OF "YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS", GO TO www.tvrecordings.com AND THEN EMAIL comments@tvrecordings.com  WITH 'AM PRIORITY' IN THE SUBJECT HEADING AND THE DATE OF THE SHOW BOOKED !

RECORDING DATES ARE ; MAY 31ST, JUNE 7TH, 14TH, 21ST, 28TH AND JULY 5TH 2012. SEE YOU THERE !

Coming up this summer for Alistair McGowan...

He will be appearing on Sky 1's hugely-popular 'Soccer AM' on May 5th and blooding many of his new football-related impressions including : Roy Hodgson, Robbie Savage, Steve Claridge, Colin Murray, Alan Shearer, Lee Dixon, Roberto Mancini, Gary Neville and Gareth Southgate.

On a totaly different note, he will be introducing a concert for Radio 3 on May 7th from Birmingham Town Hall including the works of Elgar and Copland.

On May 31st, he records the first of six half-hour shows for ITV1 at BBC TV Centre. The show, 'You Cannot Be Serious,' is a new prime-time show highlighting the weird and wacky from the week's sport and will also showcase Alistair's ever-growing repertoire of impressions. Expect everyone from John Bishop to Roberto Martinez from Sarah Millican to Jeff Stelling, from Roger Federer to Frank Gallagher of Shameless from Sherlock Holmes to Jane MacDonald !

The shows will transmit on Saturday nights for six weeks from June 2nd 2012.

He can also be heard in May as seven characters in the new Radio 4 adaptation of 'Kind Hearts and Coronets - Like Father , Like Daughter'.