Editing Andy Hamilton (section)

==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.<ref>''Have I Got News for You'' – Series 44 – Episode 10 (BBC), 21 December 2012</ref>

His early radio work, mostly on BBC Radio 4, included ''[[Week Ending]]'', ''[[The News Huddlines]]'' and ''[[The Million Pound Radio Show]]'' (with [[Nick Revell]]). He has since appeared regularly in ''[[Chelmsford 123]]'', ''[[Have I Got News for You]]'', ''[[The News Quiz]]'', ''[[QI]]'', and ''[[If I Ruled the World (game show)|If I Ruled the World]]''. Hamilton is frequently invited as a panellist on ''[[The News Quiz]]'' and as a guest panellist on ''[[I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue]]''.

On television, he has been a regular contributor to a range of comedy programmes, and co-created ''[[The Kit Curran Radio Show]]'',<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0295105/ | title=Kit Curran | website=[[IMDb]] }}</ref> ''[[Drop the Dead Donkey]]'',<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098781/ | title=Drop the Dead Donkey | website=[[IMDb]] }}</ref> and ''[[Outnumbered (British TV series)|Outnumbered]]''<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1086191/ | title=Outnumbered | website=[[IMDb]] }}</ref> with [[Guy Jenkin]].

He is the voice of Dr Elephant, the dentist in the animation series ''[[Peppa Pig]]''. He was also the original voice of Bob Fish, who is also a dentist, in the cartoon ''[[Bob and Margaret]]''. Hamilton is also the voice of Captain Squid, the pirate in the children's show ''[[Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom]]''.

On 16 March 2007, he co-presented [[BBC Radio 4]]'s ''[[Woman's Hour]]'' programme alongside usual presenter [[Martha Kearney]] as part of that day's [[Comic Relief (charity)|Comic Relief]] fundraising activities, after defeating [[Richard Hammond]] and [[Kelvin MacKenzie]] in a poll.

Since 1995, Hamilton has written and played the lead role of [[Satan]] in the [[BBC Radio 4|Radio 4]] sitcom ''[[Old Harry's Game]]''. He toured with his UK stand-up show ''Hat of Doom'' in 2008.

In 2009, Hamilton presented the [[BBC Four]] series ''[[It's Only a Theory]]'' with [[Reginald D. Hunter]].

BBC Radio 4 broadcast two four-part series of ''Andy Hamilton Sort of Remembers'', in 2017 and 2018. Series 1 comprised the topics of childhood, politics, the human body, and animals, based on his own personal experiences of them.<ref name="BBC Sort of Remembers">{{cite episode| title= Andy Hamilton Sort of Remembers | series= Andy Hamilton Sort of Remembers | credits= Presenter and writer: Andy Hamilton| network= BBC| station= [[BBC Radio 4]]| url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b098jtq1 | airdate= 18 October 2017| access-date= 18 October 2017 }}</ref>