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John Sparkes
Birth at
9 January 1954
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John Sparkes is a comedian best known on Welsh television for his three-time BAFTA Cymru Award-winning sketch show Barry Welsh is Coming, the Welsh branch of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. John was born on 9 January 1954 in Swansea, the second largest city in Wales. After working as an English teacher, he still decided that comedy was closer to him, and therefore in the 1980s he moved to London and began to perform in alternative nightclubs in London along with such British stand-up
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John Sparkes is a comedian best known on Welsh television for his three-time BAFTA Cymru Award-winning sketch show Barry Welsh is Coming, the Welsh branch of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
John was born on 9 January 1954 in Swansea, the second largest city in Wales. After working as an English teacher, he still decided that comedy was closer to him, and therefore in the 1980s he moved to London and began to perform in alternative nightclubs in London along with such British stand-up stars as Alexei Sale, Joe Brand, Paul Merton and Rick Mayal.
At the same time, he began appearing on the sketch show Naked Video as an unsuccessful poet from Wales, and later appeared on BBC Radio 4 in the same way.
John is also known for his work on other projects, in particular on television in various sketch shows, including Jeff Global's Global Probe, the popular Absolutely and Barry Welsh is Coming.
On children's television, the actor voices animated characters. His voice is spoken by the narrator in the animated series for children “Peppa Pig”, as well as the heroes of the series.
"Little Kingdom of Ben and Holly" "Barashek Sean,"
Panic in the village full-length film
"Dummy Sean" .