David Armand

David Armand (lahir David Robert Whitehead pada bulan September 1977) adalah seorang komedian, aktor dan penulis Inggris yang pernah tampil di panggung, film, radio dan yang paling terkenal, televisi, di mana acara yang pernah ia ikuti termasuk Armstrong dan Miller, EastEnders, My Family, Peep Show, Rush Hour, How Not to Live Your Life, dan Episodes. Dia adalah salah satu penulis dan bintang acara komedi terkenal CBBC Maaf, Saya Tidak Punya Kepala, dan acara saudaranya, Pixelface. Dia juga menulis untuk acara seperti The Peter Serafinowicz Show dan Katy Brand's Big Ass Show. Armand menempuh pendidikan di Latimer Community Arts College, St Catharine's College, Cambridge dan London Academy of Music dan Dramatic Art. Sebagai anggota rombongan komedi sketsa The Hollow Men, ia muncul di Edinburgh Fringe empat kali antara 1999 dan 2002, melakukan perjalanan ke Amerika sebagai peserta di Festival Seni Komedi AS 2003 di resor pegunungan Aspen di Colorado, dan ke Kanada untuk tampil di festival Just for Laughs di Montreal tahun 2005. Rombongan ini menulis dan membintangi serial TV self-titled mereka untuk jaringan Amerika Comedy Central serta dua serial untuk BBC Radio 4. Dia terkenal karena tarian interpretatif gaya pantomimnya dari "Torn" karya Natalie Imbruglia (dalam karakter sebagai "artis tari interpretatif Austria Johann Lippowitz") Pertunjukan tahun 2005 disiarkan oleh HBO Comedy dan kemudian menyebar melalui Internet. Pertunjukan tersebut sering kali disalahartikan sebagai "Karaoke untuk Tunarungu". Dia menampilkan tarian terkenalnya di panggung live bersama Natalie Imbruglia di Pesta Polisi Rahasia 2006 untuk Amnesty International. Pertunjukan dimulai dengan Armand menari dengan Imbruglia menyanyikan vokal live di belakang panggung, kemudian di atas panggung, dan diakhiri dengan Imbruglia menampilkan gerakan tarian Armand di sampingnya. Memanfaatkan alter ego "Johann Lippowitz", dia telah membawakan beberapa lagu lain, termasuk "Wherever I Lay My Hat" milik Paul Young. dan "Jangan Melihat Kembali dalam Kemarahan" oleh Oasis. Armand membintangi sitkom BBC Three, How Not to Live Your Life sebagai Eddie Singh, pengasuh yang terlalu antusias untuk mendiang nenek dari tokoh utama acara tersebut, Don Danbury (Dan Clark). Dia juga muncul di beberapa sketsa komedi online BBC dengan judul Ini adalah Wondervision. Pada tahun 2011 ia muncul di acara improvisasi BBC2 Fast and Loose, di mana ia menampilkan tarian interpretatif rutin untuk lagu yang berbeda setiap minggunya. Dua pemeran harus menebak judul lagu berdasarkan rutinitasnya. Pada bulan Februari 2012 Armand tampil sebagai John dalam Absent Friends karya Alan Ayckbourn di Harold Pinter Theatre, London, menerima ulasan positif dari Michael Billington. Pada Juli 2012, ia tampil secara rutin di acara TV Amerika Percayai Kami dengan Hidup Anda di ABC, menampilkan tarian interpretatif untuk lagu populer yang berkaitan dengan beberapa aspek selebriti tamu di acara minggu itu, yang ditantang oleh selebriti tersebut (yang mengenakan headphone peredam bising). Dia muncul di Komedi di Hippodrome bersama Ardal O'Hanlon dan Adam Kay pada tahun 2017.

David Armand (born David Robert Whitehead in September 1977) 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 Armstrong and Miller, EastEnders, My Family, Peep Show, Rush Hour, How Not to Live Your Life, and Episodes. He is one of the writers and stars of the hit CBBC comedy shows Sorry, I've Got No Head, and its sister show, Pixelface. He has also written for shows such as The Peter Serafinowicz Show and Katy Brand's Big Ass Show. Armand was educated at Latimer Community Arts College, St Catharine's College, Cambridge 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 performance is often incorrectly labelled as "Karaoke for the Deaf". 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 over-enthusiastic caregiver for the late grandmother of the show's leading character, Don Danbury (Dan Clark). 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. He appeared in Comedy at the Hippodrome with Ardal O'Hanlon and Adam Kay in 2017.