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Ronni Ancona (born 4 July 1968) is a Scottish actress, impressionist and author. She first became well known as a result of appearing in the BBC's BAFTA award winningThe Big Impression alongside Alistair McGowan.
Ancona was born in Troon, Ayrshire, Scotland and is of English and Italian, Jewish descent. She attended Marr College, a secondary school in Troon. In the programme "Comedy Map of Britain" she returned to her old school in Troon and talked about her earliest comedy performing experience as part of an improvisation group called "Pots People". She made a one-off appearance on Blue Peter in 1986 while she was still at school. She moved to London when 17 to study design at St Martin's. After this she became a teacher before embarking on stand-up comedy.
Her comedy career started on the comedy circuit and she won the Time Out Hackney Empire New Act of the Year in 1993. For many years she worked extensively in radio and on television shows, such as Fist of Fun, as well as performing stand-up comedy. She also appeared in the first series of The Sketch Show before the The Big Impression.
Ancona (Italian pronunciation: [aŋˈkoːna]; Greek: Ἀγκών - Ankon (root)) is a city and a seaport in the Marche region, in central Italy, with a population of c. 101,997 as of 2015. Ancona is the capital of the province of Ancona and of the region.
The city is located 280 km (170 mi) northeast of Rome, on the Adriatic Sea, between the slopes of the two extremities of the promontory of Monte Conero, Monte Astagno and Monte Guasco.
Ancona is one of the main ports on the Adriatic Sea, especially for passenger traffic, and is the main economic and demographic centre of the region.
Ancona was founded by Greek settlers from Syracuse about 387 BC, who gave it its name: Ancona stems from the Greek word Αγκων, meaning "elbow"; the harbour to the east of the town was originally protected only by the promontory on the north, shaped like an elbow. Greek merchants established a Tyrian purple dye factory here. In Roman times it kept its own coinage with the punning device of the bent arm holding a palm branch, and the head of Aphrodite on the reverse, and continued the use of the Greek language.
Alistair Charles McGowan (born 24 November 1964) is an English impressionist, comic, actor, singer and writer best known to British audiences for The Big Impression (formerly Alistair McGowan's Big Impression), which was, for four years, one of BBC1's top-rating comedy programmes – winning numerous awards, including a BAFTA in 2003. He has also worked extensively in theatre and appeared in the West End in Art, Cabaret, The Mikado and Little Shop of Horrors (for which he received a Laurence Olivier Award nomination). As a television actor, he played the lead role in BBC1's Mayo. He wrote the play Timing (nominated as Best New Comedy at the whatsonstage.com awards) and the book A Matter of Life and Death or How to Wean Your Man off Football with former comedy partner Ronni Ancona. He also provided voices for Spitting Image.
He made his début broadcast as a tennis commentator for BBC Sport at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships.
In 2012, McGowan wrote and hosted the ITV comedy sports show You Cannot Be Serious, in which his impressions included Roy Hodgson, Jedward and Louie Spence.
The Ministries of Love, Peace, Plenty, and Truth are ministries in George Orwell's futuristic fiction dystopia novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, set in Oceania. No ministers are mentioned in the book, and all public attention is focused on the idealized figurehead Big Brother.
The Ministry of Love (or Miniluv in Newspeak) serves as Oceania's interior ministry. It enforces loyalty to Big Brother through fear, buttressed through a massive apparatus of security and repression, as well as systematic brainwashing. The Ministry of Love building has no windows and is surrounded by barbed wire entanglements, steel doors, hidden machine-gun nests, and guards armed with "jointed truncheons". Referred to as "the place where there is no darkness", its interior lights are never turned off. It is arguably the most powerful ministry, controlling the will of the population. The Thought Police is part of Miniluv.
The Ministry of Love, like the other ministries, is a misnomer, since it is largely responsible for the practice and infliction of misery, fear, suffering and torture. In a sense, however, the name is apt, since its ultimate purpose is to instill love of Big Brother—the only form of love permitted in Oceania—in the minds of thoughtcriminals as part of the process of reverting them to orthodox thought. This is typical of the language of Newspeak, in which words and names frequently contain both an idea and its opposite; the orthodox party member is nonetheless able to resolve these contradictions through the disciplined use of doublethink.
Brilliant sketch from Alistair McGowan's Big Impression
Can the King and Queen of Celebrity become the King and Queen of the nation's favourite morning TV show...?
Ronni Ancona provides a hilarious backstory for the word 'obscurity.'
Subscribe for more: http://bit.ly/hattricksub Room 101 series 4 episode 1 Frank Skinner hosts as comedian Tim Vine, Strictly's Len Goodman and actress Ronni Ancona compete to have their pet hates and peeves consigned to Room 101. The show consists of three rounds: going out, modern life and the wildcard round. Room 101 is back - the fast moving game show meets talk show sees Frank refereeing three celebrities each week as they compete for his approval to banish their top peeve, annoyance, irritation or worst nightmare to the depths of Room 101 forever. The guests are a broad mix of comedians, actors, presenters, pop stars and national treasures mixed up in unlikely combinations. Welcome to the brand new home of Hat Trick Productions. Here you'll find all your favourite Hat Trick product...
Alistair McGowan and Ronni Ancona on Richard and Judy
Ronni Ancona - Interview with Jools Holland (2000)
This is from ep 16, series 1 of THE RECOMMENDED DAILY ALLOWANCE WITH JOHN GORDILLO which, for reasons too complicated to explain, we decided to bring live from the studios of regional news programme "East Midlands Today". This is why John is joined by their anchor, Nick Thatcher. Ronni talks about working on Alistair MacGowan's Big Impression, and does some impressions, including Caroline Ahearne, Posh and Becks, and Audrey Hepburn, while also doing Nottingham's weather. Series Producers - Karen Rosie and Neil Mossey.
Digital Spy chats to Ronni Ancona and Rufus Hound at the British Comedy Awards, where Rufus Hound took the opportunity to send a message to the Digital Spy forums! For the latest TV news, go to http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/
Posh and Becks get grilled by the oldest and wisest interviewer on our screens...
The Sketch Show, British comedy show from 10th September 2001 to 24th April 2004 starring Lee Mack, Tim Vine, Jim Tavare, Karen Taylor, Ronni Ancona and Kitty Flanagan. This sketch stars Lee Mack & Ronni Ancona.
It's hard to see when the smoke cloud's over your eyes
And you loose focus as you losing on your time
And there's one last thing to do, it's waiting there on you
Cut from this circle leave, it behind
Come on over for a moment, and see what you find
Worry and distance, it's all in your mind
Come on over, take a chance now
I know what you like
Caught in the middle, between your heart and your mind
And it's hard to see when the smoke clouds cover your eyes
And you loose focus as you losing on your time
And there's one last thing to do, it's waiting there on you
Cut from this circle leave, it behind
Come on over for a moment, see what you find
Worry and distance, it's all in your mind
Come on over, take a chance know
I know what you like
You're caught in the middle, between your heart and your mind
And it's hard to see when the smoke cloud's over your eyes
And you loose focus as you losing on your time
And there's one last thing to do, it's waiting there on you
Cut from this circle leave, it behind, whoa
It's now, I was waiting on somebody else to show
Me how,
A singe spark will catch a light
And when you thought, could change your life