Yesterday on this blog, I was probably guilty of doing something that annoys me a bit when others do it to me. I get a little irked when folks send me questions that they could answer themselves in ten seconds by Googling instead of writing to me. I got one this morning from someone asking me if Jack Kirby ever drew any covers for Daredevil. I went to Google, typed in "jack kirby daredevil cover," hit my enter key and it instantly showed me several he'd done, including the first.
So I was curious about the very funny YouTube superstar act, Men in Coats, and I asked about them without taking the time to search myself. A lot of you did and you led me to some answers. The gent with the white hair is named Mick Dow, and he started in show business as a magician. He wrote this bio on IMDB…
Mick Dow is a writer and director, best known for creating the comedy show 'Men In Coats' (100 million Hits on You Tube) and as the writer of the multi award-winning short film 'Interference' (Best Student Film at the London Short Film Festival) Mick Dow, born in Dundee Scotland and brought up in Yorkshire, started as a street performer in Covent Garden, London and went on to national tours and International acclaim with his own take on visual comedy. 5 years ago he went back to school to gain a Diploma in Film Making.Writing Credits include 2 BBC pilot comedy dramas and he has directed 3 shorts; 'Department of Fate' 'Shortcut' and 'Hope in a Box.' His next short as Writer-Director will be 'Pretty Bonnets, due for release in 2018.
If I understand correctly, his first partner in the act was a comedian named Maddy Sparham and now, when the Men in Coats perform, Dow works with a gentleman named Mark Felgate. There are videos on YouTube of them doing basically the same clever act in recent years. I think that's Mr. Felgate on the left in the photo above with Mr. Dow.
That's a lot more than I knew about them before. If you want to know about them, searching for "Men in Coats" will take you to a lot of websites and photos of guys in parkas. But if you search for "Mick Dow," you can find what you're looking for.