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Andrew Neil Hamilton (born 28 May 1954) is a British comedian, game show panellist, television director, comedy screenwriter and radio dramatist.
Early life
Hamilton was born in Fulham, south-west London. He has only four fingers and no thumb on his right hand. Hamilton is 5 ft 3ins tall. He was educated at a grammar school, and later read English at Downing College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the Cambridge University Light Entertainment Society (CULES).
Career
Hamilton first came to notice while performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the 1970s.
His early radio work, mostly on BBC Radio 4 included Week Ending, The News Huddlines and The Million Pound Radio Show (with Nick Revell). He has since appeared regularly in Chelmsford 123, Have I Got News for You, The News Quiz, QI, and If I Ruled the World. Hamilton is frequently invited as a panellist on The News Quiz and as a guest panellist on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. His voice is very similar to that of Jeremy Hardy, another regular on these two shows.
He is the voice of Dr Elephant, the dentist in the children's show Peppa Pig. He was also the original voice of Bob Fish, who is also a dentist, in the cartoon Bob and Margaret.
On 16 March 2007, he co-presented BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour programme alongside usual presenter Martha Kearney as part of that day's Comic Relief fundraising activities after defeating Richard Hammond and Kelvin Mackenzie in a poll.
Since 1995, Hamilton has written and played the lead role of Satan in the Radio 4 sitcom Old Harry's Game. He toured with his UK stand-up show Hat of Doom in 2008 in which he famously wore a large shiny top hat for portions of the show which he pretended to believe rendered him invisible.
In 2009, Hamilton presented the BBC Four series It's Only a Theory with Reginald D. Hunter.
Personal life
He is married to Libby Asher, with whom he has three children – Pip, Slobbie, and Isobel – and lives in Wimbledon, London.
On The News Quiz 25th Anniversary Special, he remarked many had noticed the likeness between him and a certain Italian opera singer: "I've often been compared to Pavarotti. But Pavarotti after a tree fell on him."
He supports Chelsea FC and regularly plays Sunday League football at Chelsea Sports Centre.
Scripts
Hamilton has written scripts for:
