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The Last Leg (known during its first series as The Last Leg with Adam Hills and for its end of year special as The Last Leg of the Year) is a British television show that originally ran alongside the 2012 Summer Paralympics every night following the main coverage on Channel 4. Hosted by Australian comedian Adam Hills and co-hosted by Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker, it gave an alternative review of the day's events.The Last Leg is also broadcast in Australia on ABC Television.
Featuring a mix of comedy, guests and Paralympics highlights, the show received strong reviews and regularly pulled in more than a million viewers each night of the Paralympic Games.
Since then, the show has become a weekly show giving an alternative look at the week's events. Micky Flanagan co-hosted the first show of 2014 as a temporary replacement for Brooker, who was in Austria as co-host of The Jump.
The Last Leg is summed up by Hills as: "Three guys with four legs talking about the week." This is based upon Alex Brooker missing his right leg and Adam Hills his right foot.
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Adam Hills (born 10 July 1970) is an Australian comedian and radio and television presenter. He has appeared on Australian and British television and is best known in Australia for his role hosting the music trivia show Spicks and Specks and the talk show Adam Hills Tonight, and in Britain for hosting The Last Leg. He has been nominated for a Edinburgh Comedy Award and Gold Logie Award.
He began performing as a stand-up comedian in 1989 at the age of 19, and since 1997 has produced ten solo shows which have toured internationally. He has performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Montreal Just for Laughs festival, earning three consecutive Edinburgh Award nominations for his Edinburgh shows in 2001, 2002 and 2003.
In 2002, he scored a minor hit in Australia with his single "Working Class Anthem", in which he sang the lyrics of the Australian National Anthem to the tune of "Working Class Man", a song by Australian rocker Jimmy Barnes.
Joshua Michael "Josh" Widdicombe (/ˈwɪdɪkəm/; born 8 April 1983) is an English comedian and radio presenter, best known for his appearances on The Last Leg (2012–present), Insert Name Here (2016–present) and his BBC Three sitcom Josh (2015–present).
Widdicombe was born in Hammersmith but grew up in Haytor Vale near Widecombe-in-the-Moor in Devon. He then attended South Dartmoor Community College and later studied linguistics at the University of Manchester.
Widdicombe's elder half-brother, Henry, is now a comedy promoter and one of the founders of the Machynlleth Comedy Festival.
Widdicombe began performing live in 2008, and made it to the final of "So You Think You're Funny" at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival during the same year. In 2009 he co-wrote and performed in the sketch show Superclump, and appeared with James Acaster and Nick Helm.
In 2010, Widdicombe worked as a contributer for the Dora the Explorer magazine, and in 2011 he performed his debut solo show "If This Show Saves One Life..." at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and was subsequently nominated for Best Newcomer by the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards and for the Malcolm Hardee "Act Most Likely to Win a Million Quid" Award.
Alexander James "Alex" Brooker (born 15 May 1984) is an English journalist and presenter, best known for his television work with Channel 4.
Brooker has co-hosted The Last Leg, a Channel 4 panel show with Adam Hills and Josh Widdicombe since 2012, as well as co-presenting Channel 4 ski jumping show The Jump with Davina McCall in 2014.
Brooker went to the Norton Knatchbull School in Ashford, Kent, before graduating from Liverpool John Moores University in 2006 and worked as a sports reporter on the Liverpool Echo. He now works for the Press Association.
Brooker entered Channel 4's Half a Million Quid Talent Search in 2012, which aimed to find disabled talent for coverage of the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games and beyond. He first appeared as a trackside reporter on Channel 4's coverage of the 2011 BT Paralympic World Cup. Brooker interviewed the likes of Boris Johnson and David Cameron during the 2012 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony and was a co-host on The Last Leg with Adam Hills, a nightly alternative look at the Games. Brooker was also on The Last Leg of the Year, an end of year special with Adam Hills and Josh Widdicombe.
Host Adam Hills Co-host Josh Widdicombe Co-host Alex Brooker Contributor Rob Beckett Contributor Kumail Nanjiani
Host Adam Hills Co-host Josh Widdicombe Co-host Alex Brooker Guest Kathy Burke
Host Adam Hills Co-host Josh Widdicombe Co-host Alex Brooker Guest Andy Serkis
Host Adam Hills Co-host Josh Widdicombe Co-host Alex Brooker Contributor: Nick Clegg, Alastair Campbell, Jon Richardson, Stephen Mangan, Katherine Ryan, Ed Balls Feat Tony Blair and a wide range of other guests
Host Adam Hills Co-host Josh Widdicombe Co-host Alex Brooker Contributor(S) Jon Richardson, Jamie Oliver, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, Richard Osman, Jessica Hynes and Brendan Cox
Host Adam Hills Co-host Josh Widdicombe Co-host Alex Brooker Contributor Sue Perkins Executive Producer Andrew Beint
Host Adam Hills Co-host Josh Widdicombe Co-host Alex Brooker Guest Armando Iannucci Executive Producer Ben Wicks
Host Adam Hills Co-host Josh Widdicombe Co-host Alex Brooker Guest Richard Ayoade Guest Mhairi Black MP Sang out by the Manchester City Choir- Don't look back in Anger
Host Adam Hills Co-host Josh Widdicombe Co-host Alex Brooker Contributor Sandy Tocksvig Contributor James Blunt
Adam Hills explains how the Grenfell Fire highlights the inequality that is in Britain today. Subscribe to The Last Leg: http://bit.ly/1ck6MKa Watch The Last Leg on Channel 4, Fridays at 10pm, or CATCH UP on All 4: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-last-leg Be Social With The Show: Follow The Last Leg: https://twitter.com/TheLastLeg Like The Last Leg: https://www.facebook.com/TheLastLeg
Host Adam Hills Co-host Josh Widdicombe Co-host Alex Brooker Contributor Rob Beckett Contributor Kumail Nanjiani
Host Adam Hills Co-host Josh Widdicombe Co-host Alex Brooker Guest Kathy Burke
Host Adam Hills Co-host Josh Widdicombe Co-host Alex Brooker Guest Andy Serkis
Host Adam Hills Co-host Josh Widdicombe Co-host Alex Brooker Contributor: Nick Clegg, Alastair Campbell, Jon Richardson, Stephen Mangan, Katherine Ryan, Ed Balls Feat Tony Blair and a wide range of other guests
Host Adam Hills Co-host Josh Widdicombe Co-host Alex Brooker Contributor(S) Jon Richardson, Jamie Oliver, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, Richard Osman, Jessica Hynes and Brendan Cox
Host Adam Hills Co-host Josh Widdicombe Co-host Alex Brooker Contributor Sue Perkins Executive Producer Andrew Beint
Host Adam Hills Co-host Josh Widdicombe Co-host Alex Brooker Guest Armando Iannucci Executive Producer Ben Wicks
Host Adam Hills Co-host Josh Widdicombe Co-host Alex Brooker Guest Richard Ayoade Guest Mhairi Black MP Sang out by the Manchester City Choir- Don't look back in Anger
Host Adam Hills Co-host Josh Widdicombe Co-host Alex Brooker Contributor Sandy Tocksvig Contributor James Blunt
Adam Hills explains how the Grenfell Fire highlights the inequality that is in Britain today. Subscribe to The Last Leg: http://bit.ly/1ck6MKa Watch The Last Leg on Channel 4, Fridays at 10pm, or CATCH UP on All 4: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-last-leg Be Social With The Show: Follow The Last Leg: https://twitter.com/TheLastLeg Like The Last Leg: https://www.facebook.com/TheLastLeg
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I couldn't live with no one else your jealousy becomes your passes by
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Bottle of the pain fall off the bottom shelf
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The desert island will be your prison cell
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(everyone dance, everyone sing)
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