Trevor Neal has recently appeared in Hollyoaks as a Santa Clause trainer and Simon Hickson has recently played Brother Brendon in Hard Spell for CBBC.
For almost a decade Trevor Neal and Simon Hickson, otherwise known as Trev and Simon, dominated Saturday morning TV with their unique brand of double-act comedy on BBC One's Going Live! and Live And Kicking. Their bizarre comedy characters coined popular catchphrases like 'Swing Your Pants!' and 'We Don't Do Duvets!' in a live TV studio where it seemed anything could happen . . . and it often did.
Big name celebrities joined Trev and Simon’s mad and unpredictable world of comedy, appearing alongside them in all kinds of specially written sketches and silly games. Snooker stars Steve Davies and Dennis Taylor put on boxing gloves to play an impossible match. Jason Donovan dressed up as a dog and danced around the studio, accompanied by Nigel Kennedy playing “Hound Dog” on the violin. Sting played Pin The Sting On The Bee. Jonathan Ross dressed up as a mole for no reason at all. And Dame Judi Dench was insulted over a cup of coffee.
Other stars guests who happily volunteered to appear with Trev and Simon include Tom Jones, Mel Brooks, Cher, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Mike Myers, David Hasselhof, The Spice Girls, Donovan, Naomi Campbell, Paul Simon, Jimmy Nail, Terry Venables, Robbie Williams, Trevor MacDonald, Frankie Howerd, Cyndi Lauper, Martin Bell, Damon Hill, Kylie Minogue, French & Saunders, David Essex, Richard Branson, The Pet Shop Boys, Dudley Moore, Vic Reeves, Meatloaf, Donny Osmond and Postman Pat.
Trevor Neal and Simon Hickson met at Manchester University in 1981 where they both studied drama. Here they directed and produced an outrageous version of Joe Orton’s Funeral Games, Chekov’s one act play, The Tragic Role, A Forced Marriage by Moliere and their own obscene live soap opera, The Scrimms in which an ordinary middle class family discover that their new lodger is the devil himself.
Fuelled by their obsession with good old fashioned comedy acts from yesteryear and blood thirsty horror films, they formed a bizarre comedy double-act called The Devilfishhorn Club. They quickly gained a reputation as one of the most exciting 'alternative comedy' acts outside London and went on to perform an extremely successful three week run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. They have since appeared at the Festival many times, including a two week sell-out run at the Assembly Rooms.
They left Manchester in 1985 to perform regularly on the London comedy circuit. Two years later, the BBC invited them to appear on a new Saturday morning show called Going Live! with Phillip Schofield and Sarah Greene.
Over the next ten years they wrote and performed over 20 minutes of live comedy business and original sketches, every week for 30 weeks of the year. To watch all these sketches, back to back, without interruption and without sleep, would take four days and four hours - although no-one is known to have actually attempted this.
In their spare time, they did three nationwide stage tours. Their Blimey That’s Good show with Phil McIntyre culminated in a live video filmed at the Duke Of York Theatre in the West End. They also presented their Friday evening magazine programme 100% and the mid-week evening Transmission Impossible for BBC Two, as well as recording a Saturday evening Trev and Simon Summer Special for BBC One. Trev and Simon retired from Saturday morning TV in 1997.
In 1998 they embarked on a nationwide tour for the Rank Organisation. In 1998/99 they hosted Games Republic, a thirty one episode computer game show for British Sky Broadcasting. In 1999/2000 they wrote and performed in 20th Century Stuff alongside Lisa Rogers and Jeff Green, a series of ten programmes for Rapido TV / Channel 5. In 2001 they hosted a series for Channel 5 entitled Downloaded It which was produced by World Of Wonder Television and featured the best in animation from the worldwide web. It received great ratings and was a great success for Channel 5 in the summer of 2001.
Trev & Simon took their brand new live show Circus Of Evil to the Edinburgh Festival for two weeks in 2001. This was their first live show in over three years and was performed at The Pleasance Theatre. All 20 performances were sold out.
For the past two years they have acted as consultants for the Grundy TV / Channel 5 show Night Fever, adding new strands to the show, writing gags for Suggs and creating the infamous Pop Monkey. They have also appeared on the show as special guests many times, including in the series Beach Fever, recorded on location in Mallorca, and in the Halloween Special as witch finders. Most recently they appeared in the guise of German porn stars.
Other TV credits include I Love The 1980s for BBC Two, It’s Only TV, But I Like It, It Takes Two, 24 Heaven and the Disney Christmas Special for BBC One, Bring Me The Head Of Light Entertainment for Channel 5, TV Unzipped, Space Cadets and 50 Greatest Magic Tricks for Channel 4 and It Shouldn’t Happen To A Weather Forecaster and I Suppose You Think That’s Funny for ITV.
They have written the pilot episode for Dogshome, an animation series produced by Alexei Sayle and a pilot script of Devil Gate Drive, a comedy drama for Carlton Television.
Following a 40 date tour of Circus Of Evil, 2002 saw Trev and Simon return to the Edinburgh Fringe and The Pleasance Theatre with a brand new show Trev and Simon Unwigged. Since this they have been producing a new children’s comedy series for Carlton and are working with the Lewisham Youth Theatre as producers of a new youth orientated sketch show.
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