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Ivo Charles Graham ( EYE-voh; born 5 September 1990) is an English stand-up comedian and comedy writer. Biography Born in Tokyo, Graham attended day and boarding schools in Australia and the UK, including Eton College, as his family moved around for his father's work. He studied French and Russian literature at University College, Oxford, graduating in 2012. Comedy career Graham was the youngest ever winner of So You Think You're Funny in 2009 and was subsequently signed by the biggest stand up talent agency in the UK, Off The Kerb. He was nominated for Best Newcomer at the 2010 Chortle Awards. His television appearances include The Stand Up Sketch Show (ITV2), Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week, Live from the BBC, Russell Howard's Stand Up Central, As Yet Untitled, Virtually Famous, QI, Sweat the Small Stuff and The Dog Ate My Homework, and he is a regular on radio show Fighting Talk. In October 2019 and December 2021, he competed on Richard Osman's House of Games and appeared on Paul Merton's team on Have I Got News For You on 8 November 2019. Ivo appeared again on the show, via webcam (due to the Covid-19 lockdown), on 15 May 2020, and was again part of Paul Merton's team. Graham regularly performs at the Edinburgh Fringe. His shows Binoculars (2013), Bowties and Johnnies (2014) and No Filter (2015) all transferred to London for runs at the Soho Theatre. His 2017 show Educated Guess garnered good reviews and sold out, prompting several extra shows to be added, and were performed at the Soho Theatre in October. Graham has also supported Josh Widdicombe on tour. In 2019 Graham was included in the i-news "50 of the best jokes of the Edinburgh Fringe" with his line: "Do I enjoy randomly appointing people to judicial positions? I'll let you be the judge of that". That year, he was nominated for Best Show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for his show, "The Game of Life". In late 2021, Graham co-presented the Dave travelogue British as Folk alongside fellow comedians Darren Harriott and Fern Brady. In December 2022 it was announced that Graham would appear on the fifteenth season of Taskmaster alongside Frankie Boyle, Mae Martin, Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Jenny Eclair. The series started broadcast on 30 March 2023. Personal life Graham is a supporter of Swindon Town F.C. He has a daughter, born in February 2019. References External links Official website Ivo Graham at IMDb. Discover the Graham English popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Graham English books.

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  • Dombey and Son synopsis, comments

    Dombey and Son

    Charles Dickens

    'The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light'Dombey and Son is both a firm and a family and the ambiguous connection betwee...

  • South Riding synopsis, comments

    South Riding

    Winifred Holtby

    The community of South Riding, like the rest of the country, lives in the long shadow of war. Blighted by recession and devastated by the loss, they must also come to terms with si...

  • Stealing the Show synopsis, comments

    Stealing the Show

    Joy Press

    From a leading cultural journalist, the definitive cultural history of female showrunnersincluding exclusive interviews with such influential figures as Shonda Rhimes, Amy ShermanP...

  • The Sun Book Of Short Stories synopsis, comments

    The Sun Book Of Short Stories

    Transworld

    To celebrate the launch of Quick Reads in 2006, The Sun ran a short story competition called 'Get Britain Reading' in order to find the hidden talent among its ten million readers....

  • Middlemarch synopsis, comments

    Middlemarch

    George Eliot

    Discover one of the most admired, best loved and influential novels in the history of English literature. The perfect long read to lose yourself in.‘If we had a keen vision and fee...

  • Urne-Burial synopsis, comments

    Urne-Burial

    Thomas Browne

    Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They ...

  • The World of Poldark synopsis, comments

    The World of Poldark

    Emma Marriott

    The World of Poldark explores the characters, the compelling stories and the era that Winston Graham's Poldark novels and the television series set out to recreate, the England th...

  • The Safeguard of the Sea synopsis, comments

    The Safeguard of the Sea

    N A M Rodger

    Throughout Britain's history, one factor above all others has determined the fate of the nation: its navy. N. A. M. Rodger's definitive account reveals how the political and social...

  • Mary Barton synopsis, comments

    Mary Barton

    Elizabeth Gaskell & MacDonald Daly

    Mary Barton is beautiful but has been born poor. Her father fights for the rights of his fellow workers, but Mary wants to make a better life for them both. She rashly decides to r...

  • The Willows at Christmas synopsis, comments

    The Willows at Christmas

    William Horwood

    The fourth enchanting addition to Kenneth Grahame's classic The Wind in the Willows with the delightful illustrations of Patrick Benson.The twelve days of Christmas are fast appro...

  • Hello, Heartbreak synopsis, comments

    Hello, Heartbreak

    Amy Huberman

    THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Will have you laughing out loud ... lovely' CosmopolitanYou'd think twentyseven years would be enough time to wise up to the rules of love and loss, espec...

  • The Eustace Diamonds synopsis, comments

    The Eustace Diamonds

    Anthony Trollope & Graham Handley

    Anthony Trollope's celebrated Parliamentary novels, of which The Eustace Diamonds (1873) is the third and most famous, are at once unfailingly amusing social comedies, melodramas o...

  • Confessions of an English Opium Eater synopsis, comments

    Confessions of an English Opium Eater

    Thomas De Quincey & Barry Milligan

    "Thou has the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium!" Determined to counter the lies about opium that had been told by travellers to the Orient and the medical profes...

  • Into the Red synopsis, comments

    Into the Red

    John Williams

    After a decade in football wilderness, weighed down by the legacy of unmatched domestic and European successes in the 1970s and ’80s, Liverpool Football Club – under new French coa...

  • The English Year synopsis, comments

    The English Year

    Steve Roud

    This enthralling book will take you, monthbymonth, daybyday, through all the festivities of English life. From national celebrations such as New Year’s Eve to regional customs such...

  • The Last Supper synopsis, comments

    The Last Supper

    Rosemary Shrager

    'A great yarn Shrager knows her food and she's cooked up a storm. . . Rosie can write and Prudence Bulstrode is here to stay.' Miriam Margolyes'Think bolshy Mrs Beeton meets Mis...

  • The House of Mirth synopsis, comments

    The House of Mirth

    Edith Wharton

    With an essay by Hermione Lee.'It was characteristic of her that she always roused speculation, that her simplest acts seemed the result of farreaching intentions'A searing, shocki...

  • Nicholas Nickleby synopsis, comments

    Nicholas Nickleby

    Charles Dickens

    '"I may grow rich!" repeated Nicholas, with a mournful smile, "ay, and I may grow old. But rich or poor, or old or young, we shall ever be the same to each other, and in that our c...

  • Money Machine synopsis, comments

    Money Machine

    Gary V. Smith

    This book looks at Wall Street wonders Warren Buffet, Benjamin Graham, and other legends and shares how you can utilize their secrets to unimaginable success!It’s time to put your ...

  • Castle Rackrent and Ennui synopsis, comments

    Castle Rackrent and Ennui

    Maria Edgeworth & Marilyn Butler

    Thady Quirk, devoted steward to the decaying estate of the Rackrent family, narrates a riotous story of four generations of a dying dynasty in Castle Rackrent (1800). Thady will de...

  • The Thirty-Nine Steps synopsis, comments

    The Thirty-Nine Steps

    John Buchan

    Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after...

  • November 22, 1963 synopsis, comments

    November 22, 1963

    Helen Thomas & Dean R. Owen

    Gripping, personal stories about the life and death of President Kennedy.In November 22, 1963, Dean Owen curates a fascinating collection of interviews and thoughtprovoking comment...

  • The Canterville Ghost, The Happy Prince and Other Stories synopsis, comments

    The Canterville Ghost, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

    Oscar Wilde

    A collection of stories, including two of Wilde's most famous: 'The Canterville Ghost', in which a young American girl helps to free the tormented spirit that haunts an old English...

  • The Twisted Sword synopsis, comments

    The Twisted Sword

    Winston Graham

    The Twisted Sword, the eleventh novel in Winston Graham's classic Poldark saga, now a major TV series from Masterpiece PBS.Cornwall 1815Demelza sees a horseman riding down the vall...

  • Best of Presents 2008 synopsis, comments

    Best of Presents 2008

    Lynne Graham & Sharon Kendrick

    Discover last year's finest...with the best eBooks of 2008!Harlequin Presents novels are always filled with passion, drama and timeless romanceand these three books are no exceptio...

  • Home Stretch synopsis, comments

    Home Stretch

    Graham Norton

    In this “compelling, bighearted, emotionally precise pageturner” (Sunday Times), the New York Times bestselling writer and acclaimed television host explores the aftermath of a tra...

  • Home of the Gentry synopsis, comments

    Home of the Gentry

    Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev & Richard Freeborn

    On one level the novel is about the homecoming of Lavretsky, who, broken and disillusioned by a failed marriage, returns to his estate and finds love again only to lose it. The se...

  • The Last Chronicle of Barset synopsis, comments

    The Last Chronicle of Barset

    Anthony Trollope

    The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867) is the novel that Anthony Trollope considered his masterpiece.     In the course of the last century and a half, Trollope’s count...

  • Seduced by the Shiekh synopsis, comments

    Seduced by the Shiekh

    Lynne Graham & Abby Green

    Jewel in His Crown Sheikh Raja alSomari knows that sacrificing his freedom for the good of his country is his duty. But he’s going to have to use more pleasurable tactics to convin...

  • How To Be Born Again synopsis, comments

    How To Be Born Again

    Billy Graham

    Man has a problem and God has an answer in Christ. How the do we respond?Dr. Graham gives the answer in simple, direct, and dynamic language. But he does not stop with the moment o...

  • Three Men in a Boat synopsis, comments

    Three Men in a Boat

    Jerome K. Jerome & Jeremy Lewis

    A comic masterpiece that has never been out of print since it was first published in 1889, Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat includes an introduction and notes by Jeremy Lewis...

  • The Power and the Glory synopsis, comments

    The Power and the Glory

    Catherine Lanone

    The Power and the Glory est un roman atypique en ce sens qu'il tranche sur la production romanesque anglosaxonne de tradition protestante pour s'inscrire dans un courant catholique...

  • Bit Of A Blur synopsis, comments

    Bit Of A Blur

    Alex James

    I was the Foolking of Soho and the numberone slag in the Groucho Club, the second drunkest member of the world's drunkest band. This was no disaster, though. It was a dream coming ...

  • The Queer Bible synopsis, comments

    The Queer Bible

    Jack Guinness

    An O, The Oprah Magazine LGBTQ Book "Changing the Literary Landscape"A gorgeously illustrated collection of essays written by today’s queer heroesfeaturing contributions from Elton...

  • An introduction to english literature - From Philip Sidney to Graham Swift - Ebook epub synopsis, comments

    An introduction to english literature - From Philip Sidney to Graham Swift - Ebook epub

    Françoise Grellet & Marie-Hélène Valentin

    Cet ouvrage, entièrement rédigé en anglais, s’adresse aux étudiants et aux amateurs de littérature. Les grands textes anglais y sont replacés dans leur contexte historique, social ...

  • Forever Home synopsis, comments

    Forever Home

    Graham Norton

     “Wonderful. . . . Dark, funny, full of emotional intelligence and gripping from the start . . . beautifully written.”Daily MailThe internationally bestselling author and host...

  • A Place of Safety synopsis, comments

    A Place of Safety

    Caroline Graham

    Charlie Leathers was not the most popular man in the charming English village of Ferne Basset, but few people seemed to hate him enough to murder him. Still, that was his fate one ...