The Cheese Shop

The Cheese Shop were a troupe of six comedy writer-performers from the revue circuit of University of Warwick.

Between 1997 and 1999, , Dave Lamb, Gordon Southern, , Ben Ward and Richie Webb appeared in three series of their comedy sketch show The Cheese Shop Presents: The Butter Factor on BBC Radio 4.

This show featured a number of sketches based around eccentric and outrageous characters, including drug-addicted and sexually deviant singer-songwriter Ted Ruby, maniac gardener Jack Finsborough, petty official Miles Stoat and an unnamed but inexperienced vet ("'Tortoise', you say? Hmm... I must write that down...")

The third series included a regular section called "Fellah's Hour" this was expanded in a fourth series of The Cheese Shop renamed "Fellah's Hour" but still written and performed by the same 6 writer performers and featuring many of the same characters.

Ben Ward, Gerard Foster and Richie Webb also took part in the Saturday morning children's TV programme Live & Kicking, as , a parody based on the 1997 film Men in Black, where they all shared the same pair of trousers.

Cast[]

Dave Lamb went on to contribute to Asian comedy show Goodness Gracious Me and is a prolific comedy actor. He is the narrator for Come Dine with Me.
Ben Ward wrote the remake of The Basil Brush Show, SMTV Live, The Big Breakfast and the award-winning Disney series called Bus Life for which he was nominated as best Original Writer at the 2004 Children's BAFTAs.
Gerard Foster went on to write and star in a very successful Radio 4 sitcom called "At Home with the Snails"; he also wrote Young Dracula and My Parents Are Aliens.
Tim Verrinder is now a television director specialising in live television and events including music, comedy and entertainment.
Gordon Southern is a stand up comedian.
Richie Webb writes and performs extensively on Radio 4 and is a prolific composer of music for TV

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