John Simmit

His many other TV credits include The Real McCoy,{{cite news |last= Hamilton |first= Davina |title= BBC: ‘We will not be releasing The Real McCoy on DVD' |url= http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/bbc-%E2%80%98we-will-not-be-releasing-real-mccoy-dvd |date= 2 February 2013 |newspaper= The Voice |location= London |access-date= 12 November 2017 |archive-date= 28 October 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181028190319/http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/bbc-%E2%80%98we-will-not-be-releasing-real-mccoy-dvd |url-status= dead }} The Gadget Show and The Big Fat Quiz of the '90s, whilst live he has performed internationally from Bahrain{{citation needed|date=October 2023}} to Budapest.{{cite news |last= Nelson |first= Alex |title= Offbeat: I played Dipsy in Teletubbies – it’s a manageable kind of fame |url= https://inews.co.uk/essentials/culture/television/dipsy-teletubbies-john-simmit/| date= 31 March 2017|newspaper= i |location=London| access-date=12 November 2017 }}

As a producer through Upfront Comedy he has put comedy shows into UK theatres nationwide{{cite news |last= Cook |first= William|title= Colour blind |url= https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2002/oct/08/comedy.williamcook| date= 8 October 2002|newspaper= The Guardian |location=London| access-date= 12 November 2017 }} for 25 years,{{cite news |last= Brady |first= Poppy |title= Save the date: John Simmit is still on comedy's front line |url= http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/save-date-john-simmit-still-comedys-front-line |date= 1 May 2017 |newspaper= The Voice |location= London |access-date= 12 November 2017 |archive-date= 3 June 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190603053918/https://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/save-date-john-simmit-still-comedys-front-line |url-status= dead }} including two major shows in London's west End, in New York & North Carolina.{{citation needed|date= November 2017}} Previewing Upfront's 10th anniversary show, The Guardian noted,

"[T]his anniversary show is yet another excellent standup bill from the most enterprising black comedy promoters in the country. Upfront's first Croydon gig featured Felix Dexter (the first black comic to become a regular performer at Jongleurs and the Comedy Store), plus lapsed Pentecostal choir boy Junior Simpson and Nigerian cockney Gina Yashere. Also on that first bill was the brains behind Upfront, John Simmit […] Thanks to pioneering outfits like Upfront, Britain's black comics are getting some of the mainstream exposure that their talents deserve - and now a growing number of African-American standups are coming here to gig alongside them".{{cite news |last= Cook |first= William |title= Preview: Peter Kay, London - Fathers 4 Justice Benefit, London - Upfront's 10th Birthday, Croydon |url= https://www.theguardian.com/theguide/comedy/story/0,14696,1450240,00.html| date= 2 April 2005|newspaper= The Guardian |location=London| access-date= 12 November 2017 }}

• The Real McCoy (1994) - Guest
• Teletubbies (1997–2001) - Dipsy
• Teletubbies Everywhere (2002) - Dipsy
• Today (2007) - guest (as Dipsy and himself)
• The Paul O'Grady Show (2009) - guest (as Dipsy)
• The Big Fat Quiz of the '90s (2012) - Himself
• Respect: A Felix Dexter Special (2013) - Himself
• The Gadget Show (2014) - Himself
• Pikachu & Friends - Charmander
• Stitch's Hawaiian Paradise - Stitch

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