Graham Fellows

Five things you might not know about John Shuttleworth

The polo-necked Yorkshireman hits the road with A Wee Ken To Remember.

Review: John Shuttleworth, Nottingham Playhouse

From Shopkeepers in the North ("When you've had a good chin-wag / They'll pop your provisions in your bag) to Eggs and Gammon (Poor Rhiannon / Ken's got wind) and the sublime I Can't go Back To Savoury Now (That Shepherd's pie was stunning / But I'm half way through me pudding), every time he sits down to play, the audience knows they in for a treat.

Review: John Shuttleworth

This tour's title A Wee Ken To Remember, is based on yet another poster misprint that his hapless manager and next-door-neighbour Ken Worthington apparently failed to notice. Of course the limited horizons of Graham Fellows's alter-ego is the joke.

Review: John Shuttleworth: A Wee Ken To Remember

Performing onstage for over 25 years and having a large presence on Radio 4 has earned him a loyal fanbase and a sold out 500 seat Lowry theatre hang on every twang of his Sheffield accent.

Graham Fellows interview

This year marks John Shuttleworth's 30th year in the comedy/music business.

Review: John Shuttleworth and Dylan Moran

Graham Fellows feels his retro comedy character cannot go on forever.

Dylan Moran is lyrical, poetic yet fearlessly frank too on religion, politics, parenthood, middle-age spread, and irritating young men, whether spouting their mystical language in mobile phone shops or the coffee house attendant with the "Edwardian cricketers' beard" lecturing him on beans.

An evening to remember: John Shuttleworth

John's got songs detailing the 'nightmare scenario' of having two tubs of margarine on the go at the same time.

Graham Fellows talks about creating a comedy character

In a series of videos created by The Open University, 'The Language of Comedy' looks at how comedians use language to create humour. Each video consists of short interviews with a leading comedian, or comedy writer, revealing some of the tricks of their trade. In episode one, Graham Fellows, the man behind John Shuttleworth, talks about using regional variety to get the laughs, with Shuttleworth providing some examples.

Graham Fellows: 'I can't do John Shuttleworth for ever'

Sean O'Grady joins Graham Fellows down the comedian's local Spar in Louth, Lincolnshire, for milk, pasties - and a heart-to-heart about the future of Sheffield's most versatile singer-songwriter.

John Shuttleworth, aka writer and performer Graham Fellows, is always hoping that someone will record his songs, and he gets his wish in the new series John Shuttleworth's Lounge Music.

The 'lounge' of this title doesn't necessarily relate to the comic character's whimsical style of music, but more to the front room of his house in Sheffield where he invites guests to chat and sing.

First to call in was Chas Hodges - of Chas and Dave fame (although Dave was busy elsewhere indulging his passion for restoring gypsy caravans).

Much about the half-hour amused, including the usual interruptions from John's wife Mary and his agent Ken Worthington (also voiced by Fellows), who hassled Chas about joining his tiny stable of artists.

The series is likely to stand or fall on how well the invited guest is able to ad-lib and engage with Shuttleworth's dry sense of humour. This first instalment was something of a hit and miss affair, although Chas' rendition of Shopkeepers in the North was a highlight.