BEING the fishing consultant for Mortimer & Whitehouse:Gone Fishing has been the best gig of my professional life. I’ve been part of a great team of talented, dedicated professionals, and been given a ticket to travel to the most wondrous rivers and lakes in the UK. Above all, though, I’ve made a new friend in Paul Whitehouse, who as an angler and person is just about as nice a guy as you’d ever wish to meet.
Many remember Whitehouse first for in the 1990s but his career launched well before that. “My introduction to comedy came through Harry Enfield. Harry was starting out on the and in the late 1980s, hosted by Ben Elton,” Whitehouse recalls. “Harry got me into actual performing and we did our first show together – – in 1990. Some characters and ideas didn’t really fit but Charlie Higson and I squirrelled them away and dug them out a few years later to form the basis of what would become .
