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Chris Hayward is known for Brian and Charles (2022), SOS: Save Our Skins (2014) and Misery Bear (2009).
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Jun 17, 2022 · Chris Hayward plays Charles, a robot friend of Brian, in the British comedy film Brian And Charles. He also co-wrote the script with David Earl, who plays Brian, and based it on their own internet radio show and short film.
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- Brian and Charles from Stage to screen
- David Earl Shows The Softer Side of Brian Gittins
- David Earl Brings His Experience as A Parent to Brian and Charles
- Chris Hayward on The Comedy of Brian and Charles
Earl and Hayward have actually been performing as these characters for several years, with the idea of Charles originating in 2013 with Earl's friend Rupert Majendie on a radio show. They would take the characters to popular live shows, having all written routines for them, and Majendie would be in the back typing Charles' dialogue into a computer,...
Brian is actually a variation of a character that Earl has played around with for nearly two decades. Brian Gittins, as he is known, is rather popular in the UK as an often wildly inappropriate, verbally inventive comedy character who has appeared in several radio series and Ricky Gervais shows like Extras and After Life, though the character is fl...
Part of this kindness and authenticity comes from the fact that Brian and Charles is largely symbolic of the process of parenting itself. Earl is a parent, and throughout this last decade of playing with the Brian and Charles characters, he's obviously seen his son grow up quite a bit. Earl movingly explains how he drew from the sometimes heartbrea...
The inherent sweetness of Brian and Charles doesn't detract from its humor one bit. For Hayward, whose character largely embodies the figure of the son, the main goal was to make Earl laugh. Hayward is a great writer who worked on the legendary early 2000s British comedy shows Big Train and Smack the Pony, and later Trollied and Cardinal Burns, but...
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Chris Hayward co-wrote, co-starred and co-directed Brian and Charles, a 2022 comedy drama film about a lonely inventor and his robot friend. The film premiered at Sundance and was nominated for a BAFTA Award.
David Earl and Chris Hayward are the co-screenwriters and lead actors of Brian and Charles, a comedy film about a man and his robot. Learn how they created their characters, their relationship, and their future plans.
With David Earl, Chris Hayward, Louise Brealey, Jamie Michie. After a particularly harsh winter Brian goes into a deep depression; completely isolated and with no one to talk to, Brian does what any sane person would do when faced with such a melancholic situation.
Festival favourite Brian and Charles is a wonderfully quirky British mockumentary comedy which follows the exploits of an eccentric inventor and his companion robot, starring comedians David Earl and Chris Hayward.
