Quoting the funny Peter Kay :

"I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.”

"I've often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming."

My dad used to say 'always fight fire with fire' . . . which is probably why he got thrown out of the fire brigade.“

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Peter John Kay . . . born July 2, 1973 in Farnworth, in Bolton, England . . . is a writer, producer, actor and comedian. His work includes That Peter Kay Thing (2000), Phoenix Nights (2001 - 2002), Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere (2004), as well as other independent productions.

After leaving Mount St Joseph High School, Kay took several menial jobs, including working in a toilet roll factory, Netto supermarket, and the bingo hall which inspired episodes or sequences in That Peter Kay Thing. He attended Salford University where he studied a Higher National Diploma in Media Performance. This involved a stand-up course and which was the course he naturally excelled in. His first stand-up was a competition in Manchester, hosted by later co-star and co-writer of Phoenix Nights, Dave Spikey. Peter was last on the bill and ended winning the competition, beating off fellow stand-up comedian Johnny Vegas who was also on the bill.

His earliest TV appearance was an interview with Granada Television in which he listed the contents of his room, as well as detailing his experience meeting Jimmy Savile. This would later be used in That Peter Kay Thing, in the role of Leonard De-Thompkinson.

Most recently Kay's experience working at the Manchester Evening News Arena inspired him to wear the official yellow jacket of the MEN Arena for the final performance of his Mum Wants a Bungalow tour. Kay has said that he sought a career in comedy. During his time working as a cinema usher, he experimented with stand-up, participating in several local events, as well as others at the Comedy Store in Manchester. Eventually, after losing his job at the cinema, he was presented with the choice between finding another relatively meagre position or moving into comedy. After being told by several of his family that he was talented, he swiftly chose stand-up. He also states that he became a comedian partly to clear debt - though this is believed to be a joke, referring only to the fact that he was out of work.

After he entered and won Channel 4's So You Think You're Funny contest in 1997, his first semi-professional stand-up appearances were at the 1998 Edinburgh Fringe festival, where he was nominated for the Perrier Award. During this time, he also appeared at various other clubs, such as London's influential Comedy Store, and the Barracuda Club in Lincoln. Although this led to a certain level of public recognition, it was only after his heavily-promoted show Live at the Top of the Tower in 2000 that Kay attained mainstream fame.

In 2006, a Channel 4 television show voted him as number two in 100 Funniest Moments, most notably for his stand-up act, and in particular for his description of a family wedding.

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