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David Armand (born David Whitehead on September 1977)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Biography for David Armand )〕 is an English comedian, actor and writer who has performed on stage, film, radio and most notably, television, where the shows he has appeared in include ''Fast and Loose'', ''Episodes'', ''How Not to Live Your Life'', ''Pulling'', ''The Armstrong and Miller Show'', ''Swinging'', and ''Peep Show''. He is one of the writers and stars of the hit CBBC comedy shows ''Sorry, I've Got No Head'', and ''Pixelface''. He has also written for shows such as ''The Peter Serafinowicz Show'' and ''Katy Brand's Big Ass Show''. ==Early life and career== Born in the Northamptonshire town of Kettering,〔 Armand was educated at Latimer Community Arts College, St Catharine's College, Cambridge〔(Report 7/7/99: Congregations of the Regent House on 25 and 26 June 1999 )〕 and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. As a member of the sketch comedy troupe ''The Hollow Men'', he appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe four times between 1999 and 2002, travelled to America as a participant at the 2003 US Comedy Arts Festival in the Colorado mountain resort of Aspen, and to Canada for a performance at Montreal's 2005 Just For Laughs festival. The troupe wrote and starred in their self-titled TV series for the American network Comedy Central as well as two series for BBC Radio 4. He is well known for his mime style interpretive dance of Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn" (in character as "Austrian interpretive dance artist Johann Lippowitz"). A 2005 performance was broadcast by HBO Comedy and subsequently spread through the Internet.〔(The full "''Torn''" interpretive dance (without Natalie Imbruglia) ) at Google Videos〕 The performance is often incorrectly labelled as "Karaoke for the Deaf".〔(Karaoke for the Deaf featuring David Armand ) at Google Videos〕 He performed his famous dance on stage live with Natalie Imbruglia at the 2006 Secret Policeman's Ball for Amnesty International. The performance started with Armand dancing with Imbruglia singing live vocals backstage, then on-stage, and concluded with Imbruglia performing Armand's dance moves alongside him. Utilizing the "Johann Lippowitz" alter ego, he has performed several other songs, including Paul Young's "Wherever I Lay My Hat". and "Don't Look Back in Anger" by Oasis. Armand starred in BBC Three sitcom, ''How Not to Live Your Life'' as Eddie Singh, the overenthusiastic former caregiver for the late grandmother of the show's leading character, Don Danbury (Dan Clark).〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher =TV Scoop )〕 He has also appeared in several online BBC comedy sketches under the title This is Wondervision. In 2011 he appeared on BBC2's improv show ''Fast and Loose'', where he performed an interpretive dance routine to a different song each week. Two cast members had to guess the song title based on his routine. In February 2012 Armand appeared as John in Alan Ayckbourn's Absent Friends at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London, receiving a positive review from Michael Billington. In July 2012, he made regular appearances on the American TV show Trust Us With Your Life on ABC, performing interpretive dance to a popular song related to some aspect of the guest celebrity on that week's show, which the celebrity (wearing noise-cancelling headphones) was challenged to guess. 〔("Absent Friends – review", by Michael Billington, at The Guardian, 10 February 2012 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Armand」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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