Chris Langham (born 14 April 1949) is a British comedian. He is most famous for playing presenter Roy Mallard in People Like Us, first on Radio 4 and later on its transfer to television on BBC TWO, where Mallard is mainly, but not entirely, an unseen character. He subsequently created several spoof adverts in the same vein. He also narrated the series The Rapid Eye Movement for Radio 4, which starred Martin Freeman as Chester Bennington, in whose head the entire series took place.

He has also written the BBC ONE sitcom Kiss Me Kate, which he also appeared in along with Caroline Quentin and Amanda Holden. Earlier in his career he wrote scripts for The Muppet Show. He appeared in the first series of Not the Nine O'clock News and Alas Smith and Jones. In the latter series he played an ineffectual panel show host, a character which apparently inspired John Morton to create the character of Roy Mallard. In 2003 he played George Orwell in a BBC docudrama entitled George Orwell - A Life In Pictures. One of his routines is Being an Owl.

Ironically, Langham's first television appearance was as a "special guest star" in The Muppet Show. The real guest star (Richard Pryor) was unable to make it to the recording, and so a script was hastily written in which "Chris the Delivery Boy" must stand in for an absent celebrity.

He is currently starring alongside co-writer Paul Whitehouse in Help on BBC2.

External links

• Interview on BBC web site
• http://www.electromancer.com/showTrack.php?id=2d6cef72d1
• Profile on BBC Comedy Guide
• Help in BBC Comedy Guide