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5 unusual facts about Phoenix Nights


Bridge to Your Heart

It featured on the sixth episode of the first series of Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights, where two men known as the Singing Builders performed the song during the Talent Trek grand final.

City Life Comedian of the Year

In the first year, the competition was won by Caroline Aherne, who went on to create Mrs Merton and The Royle Family and in subsequent years all three writers of the successful sitcom Phoenix Nights - Peter Kay, Dave Spikey and Neil Fitzmaurice - won the competition.

Kenny Senior

Kenny Senior is a fictional character from the Channel 4 sitcom Phoenix Nights, portrayed by Archie Kelly.

Max and Paddy

They subsequently featured as central cast members in the comedy series Phoenix Nights and starred in their own spin-off series Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere.

Ray Von

Ray Von is a fictional character that appears in UK sitcom Phoenix Nights.


Bernard Wrigley

Wrigley has made many appearances in British TV programmes such as Phoenix Nights (where he was Dodgy Eric, who sold club owner Brian Potter a Das Boot fruit machine, a bucking bronco and an obscene bouncy castle), Emmerdale (as eccentric rocket inventor Barry Clegg), and his sixth character in Coronation Street (as the Rev. Marvin Winstanley, the dodgy internet priest Roy and Hayley approached to arrange their wedding).

Harrisons

The video to the band's "Blue Note" single was based on the film Kes, and starred Phoenix Nights star Steve Edge as a Brian Glover-style PE teacher.

Stafford College

Steve Edge, actor who has appeared in such television programmes as Peep Show, Star Stories and Phoenix Nights, studied drama at the college.

Steve Edge

From March–November 2004 Steve, Paddy McGuinness, Archie Kelly and Janice Connolly toured a live stand-up show "Jumping on the Bandwagon" in reference to the success of Phoenix Nights.


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