Ricky Grover

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Ricky Grover is a British performer, born in the East End of London. His stepfather was an armed robber and his mother a hairdresser.^[1] He himself became a ladies' hairdresser and a boxer,^[1] before becoming a stand-up comedian, actor and occasional TV presenter.

1 Career
2 Filmography
3 References
4 Books
5 External links

[edit] Career

He has appeared in various television programmes including Red Dwarf,^[1] Fist of Fun, 'Orrible,^[2] The 11 O'Clock Show,^[1] Honky Sausages and Black Books. He also provided the voice acting for the character of Yangus in the English language version of the Playstation 2 game Dragon Quest VIII.

His 1996 short film Punch' won the Silver Bear Award^[2] at the Berlin International Film Festival.^[3]

In 2000, he won the Best Actor award at the Brest European Short Film Festival for his performance in Hungry (1998)^[4]

One of his most regular characters is "Bulla", a violent offender who originally featured on The 11 O'Clock Show. Many elements of this character were adapted for the short lived and poorly received 'Orrible.

Ricky writes a highly popular article for the monthly Loaded (magazine) under the title Raging Bulla; he's been writing for them since July 2003. He has also appeared as a Mexican Bandit in a Virgin Mobile advert.

In 2006, Ricky Grover presented the documentry F*** Off I'm Fat as part of BBC Three's first Body Image season. In 2007, on ITV1, he presented a peaktime Tonight With Trevor McDonald report on obesity and a BBC Two episode of Grandad's Back in Business in which he mentored two stand-up comedians.