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If you’re putting your work out there, which is a bit of yourself…, “There’s a clip of us on Eight out of Ten Cats Does Countdown and the comments underneath are horrendous, honestly, some of the worst stuff I’ve ever seen. Ellie & Natasia is the first show they’ve written entirely together for TV but they’ve been writing and performing sketches for several years, both live and on shows like People Time and Elevenish. Other notable acting credits include the BBC’s CLASS DISMISSED, HOUSE OF FOOLS, in which she starred alongside creators Vic and Bob, Matt Berry and Morgana Robinson, and MURDER IN SUCCESSVILLE, in which she played various characters including Cara Delevigne. She received some lovely write-ups: 'Ellie White brilliantly channels the plummy vowels of the (very) upper classes as Marianne.' “We once did a show after someone who was fire juggling and bombed. “They wear a lot of make-up, idolise American culture and anything commercial.” She adopts a thick accent and launches into a hysterical impression: “‘Oh there’s nothing nicer than you get dressed up, go M&M’s World, go to Garfunkel’s, have a lovely meal – very exclusive executive life.’ I’ll never stop finding that funny.”. Ellie White is from Oxford, England[3]. Ellie White is a hugely in-demand writer, comedian and actor. When someone in Edinburgh first suggested they do a set together, “We thought, ‘Er, are we not good enough by ourselves?’” says White. White does a line in hilarious, unsettled, often terrified long looks to camera. Demetriou darts between characters with almost alarming ease, slipping into accents and personae, each one visibly pulls her mouth in a slightly different direction. What the new Covid restrictions mean, Tier 2 and Tier 3 'childcare bubble' rules explained - and if grandparents can look after child. Ellie & Natasia is begging for a full series, but they won’t relax until it’s out and the TV hasn’t blown up. [2] After the festival, White landed her first TV appearance on the Channel 4 TV series Jamie Demetriou's Comedy Blaps and on BBC3's Live at the Electric as well as BBC Radio 4 Show Fresh From the Fringe. ‘Ellie & Natasia’ is available on BBC3 and BBC iPlayer from 10am on Monday 10 June, and on BBC1 at 11pm on Monday 17 June. Ellie White, Actress: The Other One. ‘Whenever we don’t know how to finish a sketch we always say, ‘Catch us afterwards, we’ll be at the back selling pints of prawns”. Ellie and Natasia are now working on a full series of the show. It is brilliant: familiar stereotypes and impressions are cut through with a streak of the delirious, and each three-minute glimpse into a new world they’ve created leaves you wanting more. You hopefully get better at learning it’s noise, block it out.”, Read more: Julia Davis: ‘It’s a bit annoying when you’re simulating violent lesbian sex and shouting over your shoulder, ‘don’t forget milk”. “It must be nerves. “We’re pushing those YouTube ‘dislike’ buttons up and up.”. She’s got an archive of weird and interesting images.”, Demetriou nods. The pilot was released in June to critical acclaim: All rights reserved. “I joked about the ‘dislike’ button but I have been known to have breakdowns.”, “We both struggle with social media,” Demetriou agrees. I don’t think it’s that common”, (though confesses an early desire to have John Bercow shouting “Order” between each sketch). Ellie White is a hugely in-demand writer, comedian and actor. We were slipping around in paraffin oil on stage and playing to 500 people who weren’t laughing,” says White. [4] She attended the University of Bristol, and was a member of the Bristol Revunions, graduating in 2010. ‘You see each other at the saddest bleakest times’. The pair share a sense of the inexplicably, purely, funny: one of the earliest things White did as a child – to make her brothers laugh and “assert my place as the girl in the house” – was pretend to be a woman who put on gloves really elegantly and then pointed at things on a map. Ellie White is from Oxford, England.Her father is journalist Jim White. “I’ve got a lot of respect for people who take on bigger issues, but it’s never what’s come easiest for me. Meanwhile, her portrayal of Princess Beatrice in the smash hit Channel 4 show THE WINDSORS, which has run for two seasons and had two specials, has garnered acclaim from critics and the show's viewing numbers have been fantastic. Some of their best work is on YouTube – my favourite is their superb, savage Revived, a mini-mockumentary about a reforming pop duo, so acutely observed it could have been a pilot for last year’s Bros: After the Screaming Stops (it was actually inspired by MTV’s Totally Scott-Lee – “the best show ever made”, they say). She attended the University of Bristol, and was a member of the Bristol Revunions, graduating in 2010.. Ellie's career started in comedy stand-up, appearing in the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where the comedy line up also included Aisling Bea and Romesh Ranganathan. Natasia Demetriou and Ellie White are comedians with “a lot of desperation and no ego”. “Change my nappy, daddy” rings uncomfortably in my head for days). In 2017, she played the role of Marianne in Sean Foley's production of THE MISER alongside Griff Rhys Jones, Lee Mack and Matthew Horne at The Garrick Theatre in London's West End. “Julia Davis, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ricky Gervais, Steve Coogan, Chris Morris – all those people making really good things now, or who have full-on sitcoms, came from being able to– I hate this phrase – cut their teeth doing shorter-form stuff. This BBC Three comedy from Ellie White and Natasia Demetriou is full of feminist fury and gloriously daft gags. “Whenever we don’t know how to finish a sketch we always say, ‘Catch us afterwards, we’ll be at the back selling pints of prawns’.”. I’m a 50-year-old guy’. I’d like to think that because we’re young women, there will be some stuff to do with gender and being young and social anxiety that naturally affects us.”, In one sketch, they lampoon men’s desire for women who look like “sexy babies” with a music video, gyrating in knee socks and bibs and high ponytails (“Change my nappy, daddy” rings uncomfortably in my head for days). Ellie and comedy partner, Natasia Demetriou, recently filmed their sketch pilot, ELLIE & NATASIA, for the BBC, which they made with CPL and Harry Hill. “Together, everything is nicer – apart from Ellie gets very hyper before a show and I have to watch her run around the venue about 65 times.” White nods, bewildered. “A lot of our characters have got a sense of class,” White says. I was the only one crying a lot.” Demetriou is from north London and her sense of humour comes from her half-Cypriot upbringing, her bonkers father, and her brother. Early life and career. 9: THE BILL, which won a BAFTA for Best Writing. “If we had any disagreement [with the pilot], which was rare, he would say, ‘Well, what do I know? “I feel very lucky that we can write together and work together, because comedy is a very hard thing to do,” Demetriou says. June 10, 2019 7:00 am. Ellie White is an English actor, writer and comedian. They share ideas on a “stunning” WhatsApp thread – “If it makes Els laugh, it makes me laugh,” says Demtriou – and improvise characters for ages before writing a script. Together, it’s kind of quite funny.”, ‘We’re pushing those YouTube dislike buttons up and up…’. “You see each other at the saddest, bleakest times, you have to look that person in the face and then see them at a social event the next day and you’re like, ‘Wow, that was hard’. Ellie reprised the role in late 2019. Ellie and Natasia are now working on a full series of the show. [8], In 2019, White teamed up with long-time stand-up comedy partner Natasia Demetriou[9][3] to make critically acclaimed comedy sketch pilot Ellie & Natasia for the BBC. White has starred in Stath, too, and The Windsors, Timewasters and Murder in Successville. She had a regular role in ITV2’s GLITCHY, and has a key guest role alongside Steve Pemberton and Reese Shearsmith in Series 3 of INSIDE NO. [11][1], "Get to know Ellie White: The Windsors' Beatrice has fans in hysterics! Ellie’s acting skills are not restricted to the screen. While surreal, their caricatures are eerily believable, and though White cackles, “we just want everyone to be thick and stupid”, there is commentary that nips away in their send-ups, even if they don’t beat you over the head with it. I’ll be very hyper, then I’ll crash and almost fall asleep and then fart.” “There’s a lot of gas before we go on stage,” Demetriou confirms. But there’s only one episode so far. Their live shows have rave reviews – one called their partnership “glorious chaos”, which seems apt after spending an hour with them in a pub in Tufnell Park, north London: they are rapid wits, sardonic, self-deprecating, shriek with laughter often and seem genuinely touched by compliments about their work. Ellie White (born 1989)[1][2] is an English comedy actress. On the writing front, she co-wrote a Sky short, VICKI PEPPERDINE AND ELLIE WHITE’S SUMMER, with Vicki Pepperdine for Sky Arts, has a script commission with Cave Bear Productions, MILKMAIDS, and is working on another scripted project with Shiny Button. “You see each other at the saddest, bleakest times, you have to look that person in the face and then see them at a social event the next day and you’re like, ‘Wow, that was hard’. “If we tried to do something zeitgeisty and political it would be absolute shit,” she adds (though confesses an early desire to have John Bercow shouting “Order” between each sketch). Natasia Demetriou and Ellie White are comedians with “a lot of desperation and no ego”. “I love Tash’s unique ability to find the more weird aspects of life very funny,” White says. Ellie White is an actress and writer, known for The Other One (2017), Ellie & Natasia (2019) and Stath Lets Flats (2018).

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