Tony Hendra

Tony Hendra is an English satirist and writer, who has worked mostly in the United States. He was a member of the Cambridge University Footlights revue in 1962, alongside the likes of John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Tim Brooke-Taylor, and moved to America a few years later, where he became one of the founding editors of National Lampoon magazine in 1970. In the early 1980s Hendra helped create the British television puppet show Spitting Image. Hendra also edited Spy Magazine for a period in the 1990s. His most notable acting role was in This Is Spinal Tap, as the band's manager, Ian Faith.

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English - Satirist - United States - Cambridge University - Footlights - 1962 - John Cleese - Graham Chapman - Tim Brooke-Taylor - National Lampoon - 1970 - 1980s - Spitting Image - Spy Magazine - This Is Spinal Tap

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Tony Hendra was also a contributor to Saturday Night Live http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live.

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