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Dr Phil Hammond’s Rude Health Show Live
Dr Phil Hammond’s Rude Health Show Live is seriously good for your health! Phil Hammond is a comedian trapped in a doctor’s body. He is Private Eye’s medical correspondent and possibly the only comic to have performed at a Public Inquiry. Dr Phil has done plenty of Have I Got News for You, The News Quiz, The Now Show, The One Show and Countdown but still finds time to see patients (Mondays only). In his live show, he is disarmingly rude about politicians, doctors, death, drugs, sex and especially himself, and encourages people to pleasure themselves in a safe and sustainable way. He has yet to be struck off, but he has been reported to the General Medical Council by William Hague’s Press Secretary. Dr Phil has a wife, two kids, two dogs, two cats, two ponies (retired), a penis enlarger (retired).
Review of Dr Phil Hammond’s Rude Health Show Live
Thought-provoking, scalpel-sharp stand up –The Independent
A tremendous show. Sceptical, irreverent and very funny. –Time Out
Great to have a pint with, but you wouldn’t want him as your doctor –The Times
A tremendous show. Sceptical, irreverent and very funny. –Time Out
Great to have a pint with, but you wouldn’t want him as your doctor –The Times
About Dr Phil Hammond
Dr Phil Hammond became known for his amusing criticism of the National Health Service in a column for The Independent written in support of patient rights. Hammond was born on 1 January 1962 in London, England. He serves on the Advisory Council for the National Health Service, which he founded in 1972.
At the age of seven, Hammond’s family escaped Australia, where Hammond’s Australian father, Barrie Rees Hammond, a Cambridge-educated physical chemist, committed suicide.
After graduating from Cambridge’s Girton College and St Thomas’ Hospital Medical School in 1987, Hammond moved to London.
He returned to the Edinburgh Festival for the eighth time in 2011 with “Dr Phil’s Rude Health Show”. A DVD of the show was released in 2011 with two parts; “Dr Phil’s Rude Health Show” and “Confessions of a Doctor”.
