Sam Bain
Sam Bain is a British comedy writer, best known for the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show. He is a graduate of Manchester University, where he met his writing partner Jesse Armstrong.[1]
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[edit] Career
[edit] Collaborations with Jesse Armstrong
At the beginning of their writing career, Bain and Armstrong wrote for the Channel 4 sketch show Smack the Pony and the children's shows The Queen's Nose and My Parents Are Aliens.[2] They went on to create and write Peep Show, BBC One sitcom The Old Guys, and most recently Channel 4 comedy-drama Fresh Meat. They also wrote for the Radio Four sketch show That Mitchell and Webb Sound, starring Peep Show's two main actors David Mitchell and Robert Webb, and its BBC Two adaptation That Mitchell and Webb Look. Peep Show has won several writing awards,[3] including a BAFTA for Best Situation Comedy in 2008.[4]
To date, Bain and Armstrong have written two films together - the 2007 comedy Magicians, and, alongside Chris Morris, the 2010 terrorism satire Four Lions.
Bain and Armstrong received the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award at the British Comedy Awards 2010.
Bain and Armstrong's latest project is their Channel 4 comedy pilot Bad Sugar, a spoof of Dynasty-style soap operas, which will air in 2012 and will star Olivia Colman, Julia Davis and Sharon Horgan, all of whom also co-conceived the show.[5]
[edit] Other writing
Bain wrote the novel Yours Truly, Pierre Stone, which was published by IMP Fiction in 2002.
Bain provided additional material for episode one of the BBC Four political satire The Thick of It, and was the script editor for the second series of BBC2 sitcom Rev.
[edit] Personal life
Bain is a Buddhist, as stated by Jesse Armstrong and David Mitchell on the DVD commentary of Peep Show in episode 6 of series 2 (which features a minor character named Sam who is a Buddhist). He is married to actress/screenwriter Wendy Bain. He was educated at St Paul's School, where he was a classmate of future Chancellor George Osborne.[6] His father was TV director Bill Bain and his mother, Rosemary Frankau, co-starred in the sitcom Terry and June. Through his mother, Bain is related to a long line of noted British comedians and writers, including his grandfather Ronald Frankau, his great-grandmother Julia Davis and cousin Pamela Frankau.
[edit] References
- ^ "Interview: Fresh Meat writers Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong". The Sunday Telegraph. 21 September 2011. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8774274/Interview-Fresh-Meat-writers-Sam-Bain-and-Jesse-Armstrong.html. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
- ^ "The secret of good comedy writing". The Independent. 6 November 2006. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/the-secret-of-good-comedy-writing-423112.html. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
- ^ "Peep Show - Awards and Honours". 30 November 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peep_Show_%28TV_series%29#Awards_and_honours. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
- ^ "Television Awards 2008". 26 April 2008. http://www.bafta.org/awards/television/latest-winners-and-nominees,91,BA.html. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
- ^ "Channel 4 commissions Bad Sugar by Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong". 1 December 2011. http://www.channel4.com/info/press/news/channel-4-commissions-bad-sugar-by-sam-bain-and-jesse-armstrong. Retrieved 11 December 2011.
- ^ "George Osborne: from the Bullingdon club to the heart of government". The Guardian. 1 October 2011. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/oct/01/george-osborne-bullingdon-club-government. Retrieved 11 December 2011.
[edit] External links
- Sam Bain at the Internet Movie Database
- Sam Bain on Twitter
- Sam Bain's advice on giving and receiving script notes
- Ideas Factory interview with Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong
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