Andrew Neil Hamilton is a British comedian, film and television director, comedy screenwriter, radio dramatist and novelist.
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Early life and education
Hamilton was born in Fulham, West London. He was educated at Westminster City School which was then a voluntary aided grammar school and later read English at Downing College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the Cambridge University Light Entertainment Society (CULES).
Career
Hamilton first came to notice while performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the 1970s. In the mid-1970s he sustained himself by taking jobs at Harrods and the Post Office before joining the BBC in 1976.
