Before becoming a stand-up comedian and quiz show host, he was a PE teacher, and then a deputy headmaster at Caton Primary School near Lancaster.
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His catchphrases: "Super, Smashing, Great", "You can't beat a bit of Bully!", "Let's look at what you could have won" and "Keep out of the black and in to the red, nothing in this game for two in a bed"
