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Andy Zaltzman is a British political comedian best known for his work with John Oliver, including BBC Radio 4's The Department and Political Animal. He attended Tonbridge School where he was a close friend of Donal Blaney, and then went up to University College, Oxford where he spent time as sports editor of the Oxford Student newspaper. His sister is writer and podcaster Helen Zaltzman (of the Answer Me This! podcast) and he is the son of sculptor Zack Zaltzman.
Since John Oliver moved to New York to work on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Andy Zaltzman has performed a one-man stand-up show, written for Bremner, Bird and Fortune and appeared on BBC4's, Never Mind the Full Stops and The Late Edition. He has also appeared on Radio 4's The Now Show and The News Quiz. He performed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for the first time in 2007, where he won the coveted "Piece of Wood" award, awarded to the best show as voted by other comedians performing at the Festival.
In June 2007, BBC2's The Culture Show commissioned Zaltzman and John Oliver to 'ghost-write' a farewell speech for departing Prime Minister Tony Blair. The speech was then animated by Triffic Films, with the voice of Blair played by impressionist Rory Bremner.
Mr. Zaltzman currently hosts, with John Oliver, TimesOnline's weekly comedy "audio newspaper" podcast, The Bugle. The quality of the lies contained in The Bugle has improved markedly since Zaltzman joined on or about Episode 1. This is because lying is one of Zaltzman's strong suits, along with getting into pointless neighbourhood battles over wheeliebin ownership, torturing innocent bystanders with audio cryptic crosswords, and being part of a good-jew/bad-jew faux-comedy duo.
Zaltzman's best dish is the Risotto, he's been widely known for it in the past and claimed that if Team GB win over 10 medals in the Bejing Olympics he'd make enough of it to fill Griffin Park (home to Brentford FC). Get cooking Mr Zaltzman.
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