The FGFF has honored many celebrities, including funnyman Jonathan Winters ("Certifiably Jonathan"), Judd Apatow ("American Storage"), Oscar-winning musical star Shirley Jones ("Elmer Gantry", "Oklahoma!", Cheryl Hines ("Curb Your Enthusiasm"), Joe Ballarini ("Father vs. Son"), Hal Sparks ("Queer as Folk"), Rainn Wilson ("The Office"), Carlos Mencia (Comedy Central). Other stars include James Darren, Sally Field, Jorja Fox, Gregory Harrison, Cliff Robertson ("Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story"), Greta Gerwig, Iggy Pop ("Art House"), Daniel Baldwin, Orson Bean, Willie Garson, Clint Howard, Craig Sheffer ("Ashley's Ashes"), Margot Farley], Mitzi Kapture, John Saxon, Tim Thomerson ("God's Ears"), Anne Hathaway, Leeza Gibbons ("10 Mountains 10 Years"), Beth Grant ("Herpes Boy"), James Hong, Jenna Jameson, Ken Jeong, Josh Meyers, Krysten Ritter, Ian Somerhalder ("How to Make Love to a Woman"), Tim Allen, Louis C.K., Tommy Davidson, Dana Gould, Kathy Griffin, Sarah Silverman ("I Am Comic") and Elaine Hendrix ("The Cloggers"). Also Valente Rodriguez ("Happily Divorced" and Rizwan Manji ("Outsourced").
The Feel Good Film Festival has been recognized as a "most favorite Los Angeles Film Festival". Writer, director, and actor Michael Worth ("God's Ears"; "Jabberwock"; "CSI NY"; "Desperate Housewives") praised the FGFF as "it makes filmmakers dig deeper for more substance over style". Chris Getman created the Festival's website. It was deleted in 2012. Founding FGFF Board members included Kristen Flores, Alan Noel Vega, Natalie Chaidez, Chandler Poling, Sarah "Quigs" Quigley, and America Young; 2011–2012 FGFF Board members included Kristen Flores, Alan Noel Vega, Natalie Chaidez, Dominic Flores, John Wildman, Jenna Charles, Mr. Lawrence, Kelly Koskella, and Richard Kraft.
Urdish
Urdish (or Urglish), a portmanteau of Urdu and English, is the macaronic hybrid use of English and Urdu in Pakistan, involving code-switching between these languages where they are freely interchanged within a sentence or between sentences. The term "Urdlish" is first recorded in 1989. Other less common colloquial portmanteau words for Urdish include (chronologically): "Urglish" (recorded from 1995), "Urdlish" (1997) and "Urduish" (1998).
Many bilingual or multi-lingual Urdu speakers, being familiar with both Urdu and English, display code-switching in certain localities and between certain social groups.
On 14 August 2015, the Government of Pakistan launched the "Ilm" Pakistan movement, with a uniform curriculum in Urdish. Ahsan Iqbal, Federal Minister of Pakistan, said, "Now the government is working on a new curriculum to provide a new medium to the students which will be the combination of both Urdu and English and will name it Urdish."
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Nigel Planer
Nigel George Planer (born 22 February 1953) is an English actor, comedian, novelist and playwright.
He played Neil in the cult BBC comedy "The Young Ones" and Ralph Filthy in "Filthy Rich & Catflap". He has been in many West End musicals.
He won a BRIT award in 1984 and has been nominated for Olivier, TMA, What's On Stage, and BAFTA awards.
Planer was born in Westminster, London. He studied at the University of Sussex. He left to become an actor.
He is a founding member of the London Comedy Store. He is an original member of The Comic Strip. They were pioneers of the alternative comedy movement in the United Kingdom. Planer worked with Peter Richardson. They were a double act called "The Outer Limits". Planer and Richardson also wrote the "That's Life!" parody on "Not the Nine O'Clock News".
He went on to star in film, theatre and television. He created the spoof actor character "Nicholas Craig", with help from Christopher Douglas. The Craig character appears in book, radio, TV and articles as well as live. The character appeared at the Royal Festival Hall, London, in Stewart Lee's "At Last the 1984 show".
Planer is also the author of several books, plays, radio plays, and TV scripts as well as a small volume of poetry. In June 2011, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Arts degree from Edinburgh Napier University.
Planer is best known for his role as Neil, the hippie housemate in the cult BBC comedy "The Young Ones". The series ran from 1982 to 1984. He has starred in "The Comic Strip Presents...", a series of short films broadcast from 1983 onwards, as various odd outsiders.
In 2003, Planer played Professor Dumbledore in a Harry Potter parody, "Harry Potter and the Secret Chamber Pot of Azerbaijan". He appeared on a BBC 4 programme in the guise of "Nicholas Craig" in 2007, in which he was interviewed by Mark Lawson.
Planer guest-starred in "The Pale Horse", a 2010 episode of "Agatha Christie's Marple". In 2011's "The Hunt for Tony Blair", he played Peter Mandelson.
Planer's guest appearances include programmes such as "The Bill", "French and Saunders", "Jonathan Creek", "Blackadder III", "The Last Detective", the "Paul Merton Show", the "Lenny Henry Show", "Death in Paradise (TV series)" and Gary Wilmot's "Songs from the Shows". He also guest-starred in an episode of "This is Jinsy" entitled "Nameworm", and in the BBC series "Boomers". Planer played Matt LeBlanc's lawyer in the TV series "Episodes".
Leading roles on television include "Shine on Harvey Moon", "Filthy, Rich and Catflap", "The Grimleys", "King and Castle", "Bonjour La Classe" and "Roll Over Beethoven". He also starred in Michael Palin's "Number 27", Simon Gray's "Two Lumps of Ice", Emma Tennant's "Frankenstein's Baby", and "Blackeyes" by Dennis Potter.
His first break in the theatre was understudying David Essex as Che Guevara in the original West End run of "Evita".
Planer played Amos Hart in the original London cast of "Chicago".
He played Pop in the original West End cast of Ben Elton's Queen musical "We Will Rock You".
In 1990, he replaced Michael Gambon in Alan Ayckbourn's "Man of the Moment" in the West End. Leading roles followed in other productions at the Bush Theatre, the Lyric Theatre, the Traverse, the Young Vic, the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Regent's Park Open-Air Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre, Plymouth Drum and the Hampstead Theatre.
In 2006, he was the narrator in "The Rocky Horror Show", taking on the role in Manchester and Bromley. He then starred as The Wizard in the original West End production of "Wicked" alongside Idina Menzel. The show opened at the Apollo Victoria Theatre on 27 September 2006. Planer ended his run on 7 June 2008 and was replaced by Desmond Barrit.
In 2009, he took over the role of Wilbur in the West End production of "Hairspray".
In 2010, Planer returned to the role of the narrator in the UK Tour of "The Rocky Horror Show", playing in Cambridge and Northampton. He reprised the role of Wilbur in Manchester and Leeds. He was in "Doctor Who: Live" touring the UK, as Vorgenson The Inter-Galactic Showman. He then played Captain Hook in Pantomime at the Lyceum Theatre in Sheffield.
In 2013, Planer starred as Grandpa Joe in the original production of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" in London's West End.
From September 2018 to November 2018, Planer toured with Ade Edmondson in a play that they wrote together called Vulcan 7.
Planer has appeared in films, including "Flood", "Virgin Territory", "Bright Young Things", "Hogfather", "The Colour of Magic", "The Wind in the Willows", "The Land Girls", "Clockwork Mice", "Carry on Columbus", "Brazil", "The Supergrass", "I Give It a Year", "The Apple Picker" and "Yellowbeard".
Planer played Den Dennis, one of the four members of the 1980s spoof rock band, "Bad News". They made two albums which were produced by Brian May. They also performed at the Hammersmith Apollo as well as the Donington and Reading Rock Festivals.