Kit and the Widow met in the Cambridge University Footlights, and immediately went their separate ways, until they reconvened at the Comedy Store during the dark days of the Falklands crisis.

Their stylish musical humour catapulted them into the ozone layer of the theatrical firmament. They had their own sellout runs at the New End, King's Head, Donmar Warehouse and Albery Theatres. Their frenzied work for charity and world peace has taken them into virtually all the other regional and West End theatres.

Ten giddy years in the Edinburgh Fringe culminated when they played at the Royal Lyceum Theatre as part of the official Edinburgh Fringe, the first cabaret artists since Dietrich to do so.

Lavishly Mounted, their first West End run in 1991 at the Vaudeville Theatre transferred to the Ambassadors, and was nominated for an Olivier Award in 1992. January Sale, their second show in December 1993 at the Lyric Hammersmith, transferred to the Vauderville in January 1994, where it was extended and nominated, too, for a Larry. On New Year's Day 1992, they hosted their first hour-long TV special for Channel 4. This led to their hosting Mounting the Hustings; an hour's live election coverage during the 1993 general election.

Kit and the Widow have piloted a music quiz for Radio 4 entitled Kit and the Widow's Sound of Music and recorded a musical sketch show This Glad Century with Kit and the Widow for Radio 2, a series of which was also recorded.

In the summer of 1995 Kit and the Widow took a break from their own show to start in a revival of the musical Salad Days, which toured nationwide and went into the Vaudeville Theatre in the summer of 1996.

They then toured nationwide, which included dates at the Edinburgh Festival and London's New End Theatre. They also presented Kit and the Widow's Grand Tour for Radio 4 in the summer and made various television appearances - Going for a Song (Kit) and Crosswitts (Widow). They have also completed a run of their new show, Meat on the Bone, at London's Vaudeville Theatre.