Cameos only, starring doesn't count...
Jimmy Perry played Charlie Cheeseman in Dad's Army,
Ben Elton played an anarchist in Blackadder the Third,
Stephen Merchant played the Oggmonster in The Office...
Writers who cameoed in their sitcom
Quote: Tim Azure @ December 19 2011, 2:06 PM GMTCameos only, starring doesn't count...
Jimmy Perry played Charlie Cheeseman in Dad's Army,
Ben Elton played an anarchist in Blackadder the Third,
Stephen Merchant played the Oggmonster in The Office...
Linehan and Matthews show up variously in Father Ted, Big Train and I'm Alan Partridge.
Graham Linehan also is in Black Books and The IT Crowd.
Quote: Tim Azure @ December 19 2011, 2:06 PM GMTBen Elton played an anarchist in Blackadder the Third,
He was also in The Young Ones and Filthy, Rich and Catflap. Actually, the scene he appeared in, in the latter also featured a young David Baddiel, a.k.a. the luckiest man in comedy.
I recall Simon Nye turning up in "Men Behaving Badly".
Mark Evans cameos in every episode of Bleak Expectations.
Quote: Ian Wolf @ December 19 2011, 3:26 PM GMTMark Evans cameos in every episode of Bleak Expectations.
And he's in "Bleak Old Shop Of Stuff".
Peter Tilbury appeared in the opening episode of Chef.
Mark Lamarr was the silver man in 15 Storeys High.
Ben Elton played a hippie in The Thin Blue Line.
In the last episode (and indeed the last scene) of Drop the Dead Donkey Guy Jenkin plays a removals man.
John Sullivan's voice can be heard in each episode of Only Fools and Horses, if that counts?
Brian Dooley is 'Ben From The Post Room' in The Smoking Room
Quote: Badge @ December 19 2011, 6:42 PM GMTJohn Sullivan's voice can be heard in each episode of Only Fools and Horses, if that counts?
Yes that counts.
Aaron, don't you want writing to look attractive? I only ask because I wrote "cameo'd" not "cameoed", I think most writers would do the same, like with "ski'd" and "tango'd". Either is surely suitable, but isn't it easier to read with an apostrophe?
Quote: Goose24 @ December 19 2011, 7:04 PM GMTBrian Dooley is 'Ben From The Post Room' in The Smoking Room
Apparently he went to the same school as me.