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After his success in fresh meat, Jack Whitehall is touring the country. Groskop Viv asks, "So you're the next Michael McIntyre and Russell Brand next would make sense to hate Jack Whitehall. He was 23, he's cute, funny, talented and well on your way to become extremely rich and famous. At least he knows how it is troublesome. "When people think of you, think" the young comedian, "if this is your calling card that can work for -. - What may be two years," he laughs. "I did this for a long time and although I am young enough. I hope people think of me as a little more. I have a beard. It makes me look very old. "

His performance in the new comedy this year Channel 4 Fresh Meat

, a group of university freshers along with the creators of " / AA> Peep Show , was well received. Currently on a national tour

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with two dates at the Hammersmith Apollo, the first time you had a solo show there.

January will see the launch of his Channel 4 show

Hit the Road, Jack

, where we visit a different part of the UK each week, shooting and walking with the people. There is already registered at a club in Glasgow working men.

Next year is set at one year of becoming a household name. Acute fans display panel (and in particular anyone who watches

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) say it is already. He said: "I think I've done too many shows after the sign of a city while you get bored of what could be a little more selective in the future ..."

Depending on who you ask, Whitehall is either the next or the next Michael McIntyre Russell Brand. When I put this to him directly, quickly put aside both the names Eddie Izzard and as it gets. So there is a plan, then. "I do not want to be just" a man and a microphone. I would like to tour with Eddie Izzard. An important creative journey. This would be my goal. "

We met at his office management Holborn, London, where the garments are tested to the Channel 4 show, talking non-stop dancing around the place. It is as it appears on television: very young and very English. And of particular interest to ensure they have a cup of tea. The flesh is pale and mottled studenty than I expected, with a red rash on the neck nerve extending up during our conversation.

is wearing black jeans, moccasins posh-boy and a bracelet made of wood very stupid hippies. Curiously, this only serves to make it more attractive as a person. The smug and arrogant type that plays in the programs of the panel is just a pose that falls inside and outside of the comic effect. This is part of the shtick: you must hate - hate you - but it looks Jack Whitehall

Peter Benedict gets away with much. He comes from a middle class family stereotypes outrageous that includes a course at Marlborough College and the School Harrodian in Barnes, south west London.

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actor Robert Pattinson, two years his senior, was a contemporary high school, Tower House School, also in the south-west London. His father, Michael, was an agent acting. At its peak, had Sr Whitehall Judi Dench, Colin Firth, Daniel Day-Lewis and Richard Griffiths in his books. (Griffiths is the godfather of Jack, as Nigel Havers). Her mother, Hilary, was an actress. The family home is now in Putney (just moved earlier this year), and the Putney branch of Waitrose occupies a prominent place in their consciousness - and anecdotes

The color in the neck is really starting to play when he speaks of his parents. This may be a little embarrassed. "My mother is very concerned. I am a bit of a son to mother. I really need to go out and start being a little more adult. And I had a lot written about them. I needed to find another material. "Do you have a girlfriend? The color goes nuclear." No, like, a girlfriend. But there is someone to give me a chance ... Yes, someone one. " It will not be drawn. Instead, start by recalling the time he had a daughter to turn to stay home with her parents and her father insisted on entering her room the next morning and read stories

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"Being at home was a little weird when you have a girlfriend and lives in his parents' home. I do not know if it's a generational thing, or just because my dad is a little strange. "The girl shrugged her shoulders and hid under the sheets, while Whitehall was found saying," Yes Dad, Simon Heffer is a very intelligent man. "

showbiz His childhood was not as it appears, however, he said. "It was not all glitz and glamor and sit on the lap of Judi Dench. When I was old enough to be aware, was to see the sad side of it. My father had done very well in the early 1980s, but then decided to have a family. It is often the case with agents once the families are not only the care of their customers. Many customers left. "At the time Jack was about 15 years, Michael has been removed anyway.

good story of his father for showbiz stories of random, however. He remembers the actor Leslie Grantham go home to write his autobiography because (Whitehall claims) Grantham was not allowed to use the computer at home (which was after the sex scandal online in 2004 ).

In his teenage years Whitehall Jr had a goal. "For the toenails" At the age of 19, he was offered his first weekend at the Comedy Store. "John Bishop was the moderator and I had my mom and dad down and some friends." You do. Their parents are never very far in any of his stories: he became a double act of Edinburgh show this year with his father. "Miranda came. My father tried to marry her. " been learning hard during his sabbatical leave, and later retired from the History of Art in Manchester to concentrate on stand-up. "I did a lot in the northern circuit," he said. "I did a lot of concerts in Manchester, often poorly organized, partisan crowds. Is it hardens quickly. If the equipment is not good enough, you know about it pretty quickly. I was in a camp of luxury in London, 19, to concerts in Bolton ... to mature quickly. I was very happy that I could do. "The opportunity came with TV

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