David Armand

David Armand born David Robert Whitehead in September 1977 is an English comedian actor and writer who has performed on stage film radio and most notably television where the shows he has appeared in include Armstrong and Miller EastEnders My Family Peep Show Rush Hour How Not to Live Your Life and Episodes He is one of the writers and stars of the hit CBBC comedy shows Sorry Ive Got No Head and its sister show Pixelface He has also written for shows such as The Peter Serafinowicz Show and Katy Brands Big Ass Show Armand was educated at Latimer Community Arts College St Catharines College Cambridge and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art As a member of the sketch comedy troupe The Hollow Men he appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe four times between 1999 and 2002 travelled to America as a participant at the 2003 US Comedy Arts Festival in the Colorado mountain resort of Aspen and to Canada for a performance at Montreals 2005 Just for Laughs festival The troupe wrote and starred in their selftitled TV series for the American network Comedy Central as well as two series for BBC Radio 4 He is well known for his mime style interpretive dance of Natalie Imbruglias Torn in character as Austrian interpretive dance artist Johann Lippowitz A 2005 performance was broadcast by HBO Comedy and subsequently spread through the Internet The performance is often incorrectly labelled as Karaoke for the Deaf He performed his famous dance on stage live with Natalie Imbruglia at the 2006 Secret Policemans Ball for Amnesty International The performance started with Armand dancing with Imbruglia singing live vocals backstage then onstage and concluded with Imbruglia performing Armands dance moves alongside him Utilizing the Johann Lippowitz alter ego he has performed several other songs including Paul Youngs Wherever I Lay My Hat and Dont Look Back in Anger by Oasis Armand starred in BBC Three sitcom How Not to Live Your Life as Eddie Singh the overenthusiastic caregiver for the late grandmother of the shows leading character Don Danbury Dan Clark He has also appeared in several online BBC comedy sketches under the title This is Wondervision In 2011 he appeared on BBC2s improv show Fast and Loose where he performed an interpretive dance routine to a different song each week Two cast members had to guess the song title based on his routine In February 2012 Armand appeared as John in Alan Ayckbourns Absent Friends at the Harold Pinter Theatre London receiving a positive review from Michael Billington In July 2012 he made regular appearances on the American TV show Trust Us with Your Life on ABC performing interpretive dance to a popular song related to some aspect of the guest celebrity on that weeks show which the celebrity wearing noisecancelling headphones was challenged to guess He appeared in Comedy at the Hippodrome with Ardal OHanlon and Adam Kay in 2017