Sara Pascoe
Birthday: Born in 1981-05-22 in Dagenham, London, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
English writer, stand-up comedian and actress. She has appeared on TV programmes such as Mock The Week, Frankie Boyle's Election Autopsy and Frankie Boyle's New World Order for BBC2, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown for Channel 4, and Taskmaster for digital channel Dave. She is the author of the book Animal.
TV Credits
Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable
Character: Self
The comedy show in which the nation's favourite comics and celebrities compete to convince Mel Giedroyc that they are the most Unforgivable person in the room. To do this they will have to dredge up their most outrageous sins, lies, legal transgressions and morally bankrupt behaviour....
Campus
Character: Nicole Huggins
Campus is a semi-improvised British sitcom created by the team behind the comedy sketch show Smack the Pony and hospital-based sitcom Green Wing, led by Victoria Pile who acts as co-writer, producer and director. It is set in the fictitious Kirke University and follows the lives of the staff, in particular the power-crazed and callous vice chancellor Jonty de Wolfe, lazy womanising English literature professor Matt Beer and newly promoted senior mathematics lecturer Imogen Moffat. Campus was fi...
8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
Character: Self - Contestant
Jimmy Carr hosts proceedings as the 8 Out of 10 Cats crew take over the words and numbers quiz....
Hypothetical
Character: Self
Hosted by Josh Widdicombe and James Acaster, top comedians are posed absurd hypothetical situations and scored on how well they would deal with them. Over three rounds, two teams of comedians must think fast as they are faced with a series of completely made-up scenarios and interrogated on their approach to each one. Host Josh Widdicombe poses the questions and interrogates the guests' methods, whilst James Acaster, as arbiter of the Hypotheticals, deals with the guests quibbles and queries and...
Comedy World Cup
Character: Self
David Tennant hosts the competition to determine which of Britain's comedians have the biggest fountain of funny knowledge...
The Island
Character: Self - Contestant
Comedy panel show that invites four comedians to create their own personal dream island....
7 Days
Character: Panelist
7 Days is a New Zealand comedy gameshow similar in some ways to the British program Mock the Week, hosted by Jeremy Corbett and created by The Down Low Concept. Paul Ego and Dai Henwood usually appear on each episode, along with other comedians, who form teams and answer questions about news stories from the last week....
The Complaints Department
Character: Self
Jason Manford hosts a panel game based around complaining....
Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule
Character: Self
Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule is a panel show that sees Harry Hill presiding over two teams tasked with saving planet earth from alien invasion! Each team must find clips, people, basically anything that is fun or funny enough for Harry to place in a capsule which, in the event that we're invaded by aliens, we can present to them to demonstrate earthlings are good fun and therefore worthy of saving. Over a series of rounds, the two teams of two present Harry with fun stuff which Harry must adju...
Question Team
Character: Self
In every episode Richard invites three comedians to join his Question Team. In a brazen act of indolence, Richard is outsourcing the lion's share of the preparation to his guests by demanding they each bring a unique round of questions, inspired by their own interests for him and the others to play....
Big Fat Quiz
Character: Self - Contestant
Presenter Jimmy Carr oversees a panel of top-name celebrities in this year end quiz show where they compete to see who can answer the most questions correctly....
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
Character: Self - Guest
One of Britain’s favourite comedians doing what he does best – being funny. But Alan Davies isn’t on a stage, or behind his QI desk sparring with Stephen Fry, or even wearing his Jonathan Creek duffle coat… instead, Alan is at his most relaxed and most natural – sitting around chatting with some of his best comedian friends....
Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit
Character:
Gaming enthusiast Dara O Briain presides over the mayhem as two stars join team captains – gaming geek Steve McNeil and gaming cynic Sam Pamphilon – to battle each other at their favourite computer games....
Frankie Boyle's New World Order
Character: Self
In an attempt to make sense of the bewildering world we live in, Frankie Boyle dissects the week's news using stand-up, review, discussion and audience interaction....
The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret
Character: Pamela Taylor Woods
Comedy about an inept American placed in charge of sales at his company's London branch. He has no experience with British culture, knows nothing about sales, and has only one employee, Dave. Each episode begins with a scene of Margaret appearing in dire circumstances....
W1A
Character: Coco Lomax
The follow-up to 'Twenty Twelve' as Ian Fletcher takes up the position of 'Head of Values' at the BBC. His task is to clarify, define, or re-define the core purpose of the BBC across all its functions and to position it confidently for the future, in particular for Licence Fee Renegotiation and Charter Renewal in 2016 and 2017 respectively....
The Great British Sewing Bee
Character: Presenter
Amateur sewers take on challenges as they compete to be named Britain's best home sewer....
Travel Man: 48 Hours in...
Character: Self - Guest
British comedian Richard Ayoade (later taken over by Joe Lycett), accompanied by a celebrity guest, takes a ruthlessly efficient approach to travel, covering everything top tourist destinations have to offer in just 48 hours....
8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
Character: Herself
Jimmy Carr hosts proceedings as the 8 Out of 10 Cats crew take over the words and numbers quiz....
Roast Battle
Character: Self - Guest Judge
It's comedy’s closed thing to a sport – comedians battle it out with the most brutal jokes imaginable....
Gadget Man
Character:
Gadget Man shows the world's collection of handy gadgets throughout the ages, from today's smart devices to decades old electronics to even older mechanical devices....
Room 101
Character: Self
Fast-moving game show meets talk show, which sees Frank Skinner refereeing three celebrities each week as they compete to banish their top peeve or worst nightmare to the depths of Room 101....
Twenty Twelve
Character: Coco Lomax
A mock-documentary following the challenges - both personal and professional - faced by the team responsible for delivering the biggest show on Earth: the 2012 Olympics. From getting a busload of non-English speaking Brazilians from A to B, who to appoint to run the Cultural Olympiad and what to do when the much-vaunted wind turbines won't turn because there's no wind, it's all in a day's work for the men and women whose job it is to stage the greatest sporting event in the world....
The Horne Section Television Programme
Character:
One half of Dave's own Taskmaster - Alex Horne - has a side career: he's the leader of a band called The Horne Section. They've already performed with some of the biggest names in music and comedy and now they've scored their very own two-hour special featuring Alex and the band's spontaneous and free-wheeling combination of live music and comedy. Recorded at the London Palladium, the jazz/comedy hybrid features guest performances from Nadine Coyle, Sue Perkins, Sara Pascoe and Joe Wilkinson....
Joe Lycett's Got Your Back
Character: Self
Joe Lycett, famed for his epic battles with petty officials and dodgy scammers, fights for the consumer rights of the Great British public in this series. With the help of his assistant Mark Silcox, a weekly celebrity guest, and some daring hidden camera investigations, Joe campaigns on behalf of viewers who've been wronged by big corporations, caught out by small print, and hoodwinked by fraudsters. From dishing the dirt on unhygienic takeaways and battling with big banks, to pulling back the c...
Taskmaster
Character: Self
Greg Davies is the Taskmaster, and with the help of his ever-loyal assistant Alex Horne, they will set out to test the wiles, wit, wisdom and skills of five hyper-competitive comedians. Who will be crowned the Taskmaster champion in this brand new game show?...
The Thick of It
Character: Janice
Set in the corridors of power and spin, the Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10's policy enforcer and dependent on his not-so-reliable team of civil servants....
Jon Richardson: Ultimate Worrier
Character: Self
Ever worried about laboratory-grown meat, accidentally touching someone’s hand on the train or the impending nuclear apocalypse? Then join Jon Richardson as he hilariously works out exactly how worried the British public should be about everything there is to worry about....
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
Character: Self - Panellist
Based on the week’s news and fronted by guest hosts, this extended version of the satirical news quiz features more of the stuff that wouldn't fit into the regular programme....
Insert Name Here
Character: Self - Panelist
Comedy panel show about people with the same first name, hosted by Sue Perkins....
Richard Osman's House of Games
Character: Self - Contestant
Each week a group of four famous faces go toe to toe in testing their general knowledge skills in a variety of entertaining games....
8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
Character: Herself - Guest Captain
Jimmy Carr hosts proceedings as the 8 Out of 10 Cats crew take over the words and numbers quiz....
Would I Lie to You?
Character: Self
A comedic panel show featuring team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell plus two guests per side, hosted by Rob Brydon (formerly Angus Deayton). Each person must reveal embarrassing facts and outrageous lies during a series of different rounds including "Home Truths", "This Is My..." and "Quickfire Lies". It is up to the opposing team to tell tall tales from fantastic facts....
Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief
Character: Self - Contestant
Celebrity acts sing and dance to iconic pop tracks, all in aid of Comic Relief....
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Character: Self - Panellist
Never Mind the Buzzcocks is a comedy panel game show with a pop and rock music theme. The show is infamous for its dry, sarcastic humour and scathing, provocative attacks on the pop industry....
Comedians Giving Lectures
Character: Herself - Host
Some of the funniest people in British comedy deliver a hilarious stand up presentation in the guise of a lecture in this stand-up competition. Not only have they got to impress the audience with their usual comedy chops, they will also be marked on their oratory skills by experts in the field of their lecture topic....
The Great British Sewing Bee
Character: Self - Presenter
Amateur sewers take on challenges as they compete to be named Britain's best home sewer....
Jon & Lucy's Odd Couples
Character: Self
Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont are putting their own differences aside to judge everyone else's, as unwitting celebrity couples go head-to-head to find out who's got the best relationship...
The Graham Norton Show
Character: Self
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out....
8 Out of 10 Cats
Character: Self - Guest Captain
8 Out of 10 Cats is a British television comedy panel game produced by Zeppotron for Channel 4. It was first broadcast on 3 June 2005. The show is based on statistics and opinion polls, and draws on polls produced by a variety of organizations and new polls commissioned for the programme, carried out by company Harris Poll. The show's title is derived from a well-known advertising tagline for Whiskas cat food, which originally claimed that "8 out of 10 cats prefer Whiskas"....
8 Out of 10 Cats
Character: Self
8 Out of 10 Cats is a British television comedy panel game produced by Zeppotron for Channel 4. It was first broadcast on 3 June 2005. The show is based on statistics and opinion polls, and draws on polls produced by a variety of organizations and new polls commissioned for the programme, carried out by company Harris Poll. The show's title is derived from a well-known advertising tagline for Whiskas cat food, which originally claimed that "8 out of 10 cats prefer Whiskas"....
The Big Narstie Show
Character: Self
Grime legend and social media sensation Big Narstie hosts an anarchic studio show along with his co-host, and the hottest comedian in town, Mo Gilligan....
QI
Character: Self
Comedy quiz show full of quirky facts, in which contestants are rewarded more if their answers are 'quite interesting'....
The Ranganation
Character: Self
Romesh Ranganathan, joined by celebrity guests and the Ranganation, his very own focus group of 25 members of the public, takes a funny, topical look at modern Britain....
Guessable
Character: Host
Packed with plenty of take-away trivia, Guessable involves two celebrity teams competing to identify the famous name or object inside a mystery box. Sara Pascoe hosts the show with John Kearns on hand as her assistant. Alan Davies and Darren Harriott are the team captains, in a format that puts a twist on classic family games....
Between the Covers
Character: Self
Sara Cox hosts this new book club bringing the nation together through sharing the pleasure of reading. Each edition features a celebrity panel discussing their favourite book and two review sections....
Out of Her Mind
Character: Sara
Heartbreak, family and how to survive them - and just why is everyone pairing up and having babies? A deliriously surreal journey into the mind of Sara Pascoe....
The Last Leg
Character: Self
Adam Hills and co-hosts Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker provide some offbeat commentary on the significant moments of the past seven days....
Have You Been Paying Attention?
Character: Panellist
Topical comedy-quiz show featuring five guests competing to see who can remember the most about events of the week. A fast-paced, funny look at international affairs, politics, sport and entertainment news, we test just how well our contestants have been paying attention....
Victoria Wood: The Secret List
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Back in 2009, Victoria wrote a list of her favourite moments from her seminal 80s series, intending to use it as a compilation show of self-selected best bits. The list remained locked away in her personal office until now. It features familiar favourites and often overlooked gems, but as these two programmes explore, the chosen sketches serve as a prediction of what was to come in an unparalleled career that crossed just about every genre of stage and screen....
Last Woman on Earth with Sara Pascoe
Character: Self - Presenter
Writer and comedian Sara Pascoe is learning how to do the world’s most endangered jobs, from ice-carving in Finland to climbing trees to making sweets in Cuba....
Being Human
Character: Kathleen
Deciding to turn over a new leaf, a group of friends who also happen to be vampires and werewolves move into a house together, only to find that it is haunted by ghosts of people who have been killed under mysterious circumstances. As they deal with the challenges of being supernatural creatures, their desire to be human bonds them....
Blankety Blank
Character: Self - Panellist
Bradley Walsh presents the triumphant return of Britain's blank-iest game show. Can he control his celebrity panel and help contestants win the coveted cheque book and pen?...
Live at the Apollo
Character: Self - Presenter
A British stand-up comedy programme performed from the Hammersmith Apollo Theatre in west London....
The Horne Section TV Show
Character: Self
Alex Horne steps out of Greg Davies' shadow as he gets the chance to host his own late-night chat show with his loyal band. But will all go to plan in this mash-up of comedy, celebs, music and mayhem?...
Movie Credits
A Wonderful Christmas Time
Character: Laura
A young man and young woman, both who have recently gone through break-ups, become friends over the festive season though don't wish to be each other's respective rebound. To get over this, the man goes on a series of disastrous dates so he can get together with the girl he really likes....
Peacock Season
Character: Awards Producer
The Edinburgh Festival is a funny place to be... When you're not funny....
Sara Pascoe vs Monogamy
Character: Herself
Sara Pascoe explores the concept of monogamy in this funny and insightful film. Through Sara's world, created through live action and animation, we discover what makes us tick when it comes to matters of the heart and how you should never underestimate the allure of a saxophone....
Sara Pascoe Live: LadsLadsLads
Character: Herself
Exploring love, sex and doing both alone, Sara shares her wisdom and positivity, and overshares about her imaginary brother Stephen....
The Horne Section
Character:
Taskmaster's Alex Horne has a side career: he's the leader of a band called The Horne Section. They've already performed with some of the biggest names in music and comedy and now they've scored their very own two-hour special featuring Alex and the band's spontaneous and free-wheeling combination of live music and comedy....