Richard Vranch

I'm an impro comedian, voiceover person and sometimes a scriptwriter. I do bits of acting, animation and odd things like panel games, cartoons, a hula-hoop act and science shows. 25 years ago I improvised the music on Whose Line Is It Anyway? This has proved to be confusing - I don't work as a musician and have never made a living that way. I co-wrote a play for Tamasha Theatre (the "East is East" people) and I do workshops for actors and business folk.

I've been a Comedy Store Player since 1986. I'm there every Wednesday and Sunday improvising on stage. My voice features on loads of TV and radio ads and on TV documentaries like Meet The Foxes and Love Thy Neighbour.

With Pippa the Ripper I am half of the comedy hula-hoop double act "DR HULA" - atomic structure explained through sharp jokes and impressive hula-hooping. In 2012 I appeared naked at one point in a show at the Vaudeville Theatre. I have performed runs of shows at the Edinburgh Fringe almost every year since 1979, including my one-man show "Mexico" in 1999.

I've done all kinds of TV, stage and radio comedy and I hosted a primetime Channel 4 science series in 1994 (I have a Radiation Physics PhD from Cambridge and I was briefly an Oxford Don.) I was lucky enough to appear on stage with Pete 'n' Dud and I've appeared on Radio 4's Just A Minute. I was once The Weakest Link on a charity doctor's special and I've improvised stories on Jackanory on BBC TV. With Leisa Rea I founded the YarnBards, improvising stories for family audiences.

I've travelled to 40-odd countries doing comedy shows: Sketch shows from Mexico to the Occupied Palestinian Territories; dozens of tours in Steve Frost's Impro Allstars including China and the Far East, the Middle East, New York, Glastonbury and Europe. I am one of Paul Merton's Impro Chums - UK theatre tours and 10 Edinburgh Fringes. Paul, Lee Simpson and myself performed a 3-man variety show at the London Palladium for a season in 1994 which ended up on BBC1.

There are more TV, radio and stage oddities listed on richardvranch.com as well as curious pictures of me with Stephen Fry, Betty Boo and Nicholas Parsons.