About Johnny - your Entertainment Specialist
Bumbling, big-eared, comb-dodger Johnny is a versatile performer, who has spent many years entertaining audiences all around the entertainment industry....CITV, The Royal Palladium and Wembley Stadium are just some of the places he hasn’t performed....However, you may have seen him in CBBCs Twirlywoos; or perhaps witnessed his Captain Codseye in the Royal Spa Theatre’s production of Dick Whittington; or even experienced one (or more!) of his popular live entertainment shows, which have been running now for longer than a really long thing.
His talents (and cheap fees) have created a demand for his services across the globe. In Blackpool he won a limbo dance contest (he hasn’t walked properly since); entertained, and coached football in the USA (98% of his students have gone on to successful non-footballing careers); worked as an all singing/dancing/ukulele playing/juggling/magic performing shouty mouthed entertainer in France (Il parle français comme une vache espagnole); dressed up as a giant mouse for channel 4 Roadshows (don’t ask); regularly surfed an ironing board down a hill in Surrey (again, don’t ask); and reached the semi-finals of the Daily Telegraph Stand-up Comedy Competition - narrowly failing to reach the grand final, simply because the judges didn’t find him funny (a minor detail)
After losing his hair in a prank outside Debenhams, he ignored the call of the comb-over, said ‘certainly not’ to a syrup, and steadfastly refused the regaine. As Johnny proudly , and dived bald-head first into a cruel hairy world - he vowed never to accept a job just because of his failing follicles. He immediately gained work as the 'Happy Bald Man' in a commercial for After Eight Mints; then it was The Adventures of Lord Haw Haw, at the Luton Library Theatre (a variety of specialist bald characters); there was Rainbow theatre’s production of King Arthur’s Adventures’ (A Bald Merlin the Wizard); toured in Baldilocks & the Three Hairs (have a wild guess); and most recently in a music video for Irish band Le Galaxie (The puzzled bald man).
His career has continued with many more adventures, each one more similar than the last.
For the past few years he has been East Grinstead’s third favourite Harry Hill impersonator (you should see the other two).
At present, He continues to run Entertainment by Johnny - sprinkling fun and laughter on unsuspecting audiences everywhere!
What free time Johnny has, he likes to spend memorizing weather statistics, and taking part in competitive ukulele strumming.
He has used all this experience to bring these comedy characters, and shows to you - his most popular and enduring creations - which continue to make people laugh wherever he goes!
Here is a selection of places and organisations where Johnny has performed:
BBC
Channel 4 Roadshows
Chessington World of Adventures
Ross and Cromarty Council
Invergordon Arts Centre
CBeebies
Luton Library Theatre
Royal Spa Theatre, Leamington Spa
NASC, USA
Manoir de Kerlut, France
Dunstable College
University of Bedfordshire