Rare 1981 LP featuring soon to be famous Cambridge Footlights Old Boys Griff Rhys Jones, Clive Anderson, Rory McGrath, Jimmy Mulville and Martin Bergman.

Rare 1981 LP featuring soon to be famous Cambridge Footlights Old Boys Griff Rhys Jones, Clive Anderson, Rory McGrath, Jimmy Mulville and Martin Bergman.

In 1986, McGrath, with Jimmy Mulville and Denise O'Donoghue, co-founded the independent British TV production company Hat Trick Productions. An early production was Chelmsford 123 (1988 and 1990), which McGrath and Mulville wrote and performed. In 1990, he hosted the game show Trivial Pursuit on BBC One, but in 1992 he was dismissed from Hat Trick, allegedly for not pulling his weight. From 2006-2011, McGrath starred in the BBC's Three Men in a Boat series, alongside Dara Ó Briain and Griff Rhys Jones. The series has included the trio rowing up the River Thames (similar to the 1889 novel also named Three Men in a Boat), sailing from London to the Isle of Wight for a sailing yacht race, borrowing numerous vessels to make their way from Plymouth to the Isles of Scilly, taking to the Irish canals and rivers along with Ó.

An evening planned to spend watching his hero Frankie Howerd at the invitation of friends Clive Anderson and Rory McGrath, who were writing the show at the time, resulted in Rhys Jones replacing the show's producer, who had suffered from a stress-related illness from dealing with the comedian From 10 April 2015, he introduced a five-part documentary series for ITV, Slow Train Through Africa, taking in life on and off trains from Morocco to South Africa, by way of Algeria, Tunisia, Kenya and Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Namibia.

James Thomas "Jimmy" Mulville (born 5 January 1955) is an English comedian, comedy writer, producer and television presenter. Mulville is best known for co-founding in 1986 the British independent television production company Hat Trick Productions with Denise O'Donoghue and Rory McGrath (who left in 1992)  . He and Andy Hamilton are old friends, having met at Cambridge, where they were at university with Rory McGrath, Clive Anderson and Griff Rhys Jones. He has been married three times, with the first two marriages ending in divorce. He has four children, a 21-year-old step-daughter and three sons 13, 11 and 7 years old. His second marriage was to Denise O'Donoghue, with whom he continued to work after they divorced.

Mulville is best known for co-founding in 1986 the British independent television production company Hat Trick Productions with Denise O'Donoghue and Rory McGrath (who left in 1992) Jimmy Mulville. James Thomas Mulville.

James Thomas Mulville (born 5 January 1955) is an English comedian, comedy writer, producer and television presenter. In 2003, Mulville and O'Donoghue, as co-founders of Hat Trick, were listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy.

His co-conspirators at this prestigious finishing school for comics included Douglas Adams, Griff Rhys Jones, Jimmy Mulville and Clive Anderson. The contacts and experience Rory gained during his Footlights years stood him in good stead. By the early 1980s, Rory was writing for his old mate Griff Rhys Jones's show, Alas Smith and Jones