Who's Rory MGrath? In case, you don't know who he is,
He studied at Redruth Grammar School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, from which he received a third class degree. He became a member of the Cambridge Footlights and met Jimmy Mulville, with whom he wrote and performed. After university, they wrote BBC radio scripts for Frankie Howerd and Windsor Davies. McGrath also co-wrote Black Cinderella Two Goes East with Clive Anderson for BBC Radio 4 in 1978. McGrath and Mulville went on to write for shows such as Not the Nine O'Clock News and Alas Smith and Jones, and they were part of the team of writer/performers behind the Channel 4 comedy sketch series Who Dares Wins
In 1986 McGrath was co-founder, with Jimmy Mulville and Denise O'Donoghue , of the independent British TV production company Hat Trick Productions. An early production was Chelmsford 123 (1988 and 1990), which McGrath and Mulville wrote and performed. In 1990, McGrath hosted the game show Trivial Pursuit on BBC1.
In 1992 McGrath was dismissed from Hat Trick, for allegedly not pulling his weight. The confrontation came days after McGrath had left his wife and two young children. .[1]
McGrath was a panel member on the BBC comedy sports quiz They Think It's All Over (1995-2006). He was presenter of the series Rory's Commercial Breakdown (1997), where humorous adverts were shown from different countries.
McGrath supports Arsenal. He and Peter Cook (a Tottenham supporter) used to have a friendly rivalry over their respective clubs. On the night that Cook died in January 1995, Tottenham had beaten Arsenal. McGrath found out about his friend's death by the fact that he hadn't received the traditional abusive phonecall the next morning.
McGrath has made 2 football DVDs titled: Own Goals and Gaffs - The Premiership in 2002 and More Own Goals and Gaffs in 2003.
His appearance on the quiz show QI made him one of the highest-scoring contestants after he received a 100 point bonus for correctly identifying the most common metal in the human body as calcium – ending the program with 88 points.
Rory was one of the Three Men in a Boat in the 2005 BBC reinterpretation of the travelogue by Jerome K. Jerome along with fellow rowers Griff Rhys Jones and Dara Ó Briain. He also starred in the sequels, Three Men in Another Boat, shown on BBC television in January 2008, and Three Men in More Than One Boat shown in January 2009.
His first book, Bearded Tit - Confessions of a Birdwatcher, was published by Ebury Press on 1 May 2008 and was serialised by BBC Radio 4.
First airing in August 2008, McGrath co-starred in a new television series along with British comedian Paddy McGuinness, broadcast on Channel Five, Rory and Paddy's Great British Adventure. This is a four-part series in which Paddy and Rory embark on a nationwide road-trip, “on a mission to explore Britain’s sporting heritage by probing the hidden life of its towns and villages”. The series focuses on arcane sports such as cheese rolling, toe wrestling and swamp soccer. Source: Wikipedia
