The Pros From Dover
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Sketch Comedy / Sketch Comedy / Sketch ComedyTV Shows
Neil, Phil and Richard are currently writing & filming an action-comedy series, spoofing TV show ’24’ for Warner Music’s internet comedy portal, Comedybox, which will launch in September. They have been commissioned to write & perform some of their original sketches for Comedybox, too.
Some of their work can also be seen on constantcomedy including the sketch "strange nosebleed", which is quickly becoming a cult hit.
The Pros can be heard on the next series of ’28 Acts In 28 Minutes’ for BBC Radio 4, and are developing a TV format for Channel Five.Website
prosfromdover.co.ukBio
The Morecambe, Costello and slightly funnier Chuckle Brother of Sketch Comedy. Neil Cole, Richard Glover and Phil Whelans are The Pros from Dover. Sketch Comedy has never been more like this than this is. Kill your friends... wait, tell... Tell your friends. Tell them. Oh God.
Phil Whelans Former member of double-act The Sean Connery Brotherhood. TV appearances include Brasseye, Saturday Night Live, The Jack Docherty Show, writing includes Armstrong & Miller, 11 Oclock Show, 2DTV, Basil Brush, Joan Rivers. Outstanding Time Out Hilarious The Independent. DIRECTED THE 2006 IF.COMEDDIE AWARD-WINNING SHOW PHIL NICHOL: THE NAKED RACIST
Neil Cole: Former member of double-act Hitchcocks Half Hour (winners Hackney Empire New Act Of The Year 1998, The new young gods of comedy The Times Very fast, very fresh and very funny The Guardian). Has supported Harry Hill & Russell Brand. TV credits include BBC1s The Stand-Up Show, MTV, extreme sports channel and ITV2s Shakedown. See www.theneilcoleshow.com
Richard Glover: Former member of double-act Hopkins & Glover (Winners BBC New Comedy Award 2001, with Big Face). Writing & performing credits include C4s Canadia, Blackout and Speeding, BBC2s My Life In Film, Velvet Soup and Revolver. He appears in commercials and feature films, including I Want Candy and the forthcoming St Trinians remake.Members
Phil Whelans, Neil Cole and Richard Glover. Regular guests include: Kevin Eldon, Adam Buxton, Rich Fulcher, Joanna Neary, Katy Brand, Tony Law, Tim Key, Tom Meeten, Steve Oram, Waen Shepherd, James Bachman, Lizzie Roper, Justin Edwards, Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Jordan Long, Jim Field-Smith, Jim Howick, John Hopkins, Katherine Jakeways, David Armand, Dan Renton Skinner, Paul Litchfield, Millie Reeves
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Visit our real website: Pros From Dover..Chortle said this: "The Pros From Dover produce sketches with the twin advantages of brevity and, most rare this, proper punchlines. Glover’s imitation of the late John Mills is especially memorable, a perfect parody of stilted British upper-class film acting"
Time Out said this: "Entertaining"
42: Pros From Dover - Episode 2
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The Pros From Dover - Mistaken Surgery
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- Height: 0' 1"
- Zodiac Sign: Pisces
- Occupation: comedians
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definition from urbandictonary.com:
1. PROS FROM DOVER:
An American slang term for outside consultants who are brought into a business to troubleshoot and solve problems. The term comes from the 1968 book M*A*S*H by Richard Hooker. In the book, the character Hawkeye is described as using the guise of being the pro from Dover to obtain free entrance to golf courses:
"Hawkeye would walk confidently into a pro shop, smile, comment upon the nice condition of the course, explain that he was just passing through and that he was Joe, Dave or Jack Somebody, the pro from Dover. This resulted, about eight times out of ten, in an invitation to play for free. If forced into conversation, he became the pro from Dover, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New Jersey, England, Ohio, Delaware, Tennessee, or Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, whichever seemed safest."
Later on in the book, when Hawkeye and fellow surgeon Trapper are called from Korea to Tokyo to perform surgery on a congressman's son, the following exchange takes place:
"'All right, ' Trapper said. 'Somebody trot out the latest pictures of this kid with the shell fragment in his chest.' No one moved. 'Snap it up!' yelled Hawkeye. 'We're the pros from Dover, and the last pictures we saw must be forty-eight hours old by now.'"
This latter exchange is repeated in the 1970 movie, but the term pros from Dover is not explained in the script. People who had seen the movie, but not read the book, started using the phrase to mean outside experts/consultants without understanding that Hawkeye was using the term facetiously, referring to an old con he used to run.
"Look, mother, I want to go to work in one hour. We are the Pros from Dover and we figure to crack this kid's chest and get out to golf course before it gets dark. So you go find the gas-passer and you have him pre-medicate this patient. Then bring me the latest pictures on him. The ones we saw must be 48 hours old by now. Then call the kitchen and have them rustle us up some lunch. Ham and eggs will all right. Steak would be even better. And then give me at least ONE nurse who knows how to work in close without getting her tits in my way."