Geoffrey Perkins

Geoffrey Howard Perkins (22 February 1953 - 29 August 2008) was a comedy producer, writer and performer, and a central figure in British comedy broadcasting. This was recognised in December 2008 when he was awarded with a Outstanding Contribution to Comedy Award. Best known as the BBC head of comedy (1995 - 2001), he produced the first two radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and created the bizarre panel game Mornington Crescent ... more

Geoffrey Howard Perkins (22 February 1953 - 29 August 2008) was a comedy producer, writer and performer, and a central figure in British comedy broadcasting. This was recognised in December 2008 when he was awarded with a Outstanding Contribution to Comedy Award. Best known as the BBC head of comedy (1995 - 2001), he produced the first two radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and created the bizarre panel game Mornington Crescent for I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. Perkins attended the Harrow County Grammar School, alongside such future-names as Nigel Sheinwald (now, as Sir Nigel, British ambassador to Washington), Michael Portillo and Clive Anderson, with whom he ran the debating society." Taking an early interest in drama, he worked with Clive Anderson to write, in 1970, a charity revue called Happy Poison. Perkins read English at Lincoln College, Oxford and while there wrote for and directed The Oxford Revues of 1974 and 1975, contributing to, among others, a comedy... less