Quote: Tim Azure @ October 11 2010, 2:21 PM BSTI believe he did practise as a Doctor for a number of years. Whether he became any good...
Trained at the same place I did, St George's Hospital Medical School, Tooting (though he was a few years above me). Matthew started doing the Harry character (but with a little more hair) back when he was in the medical school revues. Somewhere(?), someone must have a couple of video tapes of his early med school performances (our revues were filmed every year). He worked for a few years after qualifying - in the end mainly locums to financially supplement his stand-up career - but never worked long enough to become truly experienced/senior as a doctor. Before he made it really big, he would occasionally turn up to watch the comedy nights organised in the med school bar. (Often with the little red-haired chap who used to play his son - also a doctor in real life.)