Hawks noted that his correspondents 'might be able to do backside varials but they can't spell to save their lives.' On 2 January 2008 he appeared on an edition of Celebrity Mastermind, with Tony Hawk as his chosen specialised subject. Hawks maintains a list of emails intended for the skateboarder and his mischievous responses to them on his website.

He is frequently confused with Tony Hawk, largely because the latter's video game franchise uses the possessive apostrophe ('Tony Hawk's'). Hawks is the co-founder and public face of the 'Tennis for Free' campaign which aims to make Britain's existing municipal tennis facilities available to all. Hawks continues to support Hippocrates through fundraising and personal involvement. Tony Hawks donated half of the royalties from his book Playing the Moldovans at Tennis to a trust fund for Moldova, which was used to open the Hippocrates Centre, a medical centre that provides rehabilitative therapy for disabled children from socially vulnerable families. In March 2011 Tony travelled to Japan to appear at the Okinawa International Film Festival where Round Ireland with a Fridge was nominated for Best Comedy. Filming on the follow-up, Playing the Moldovans at Tennis, with Steven Frost, Angus Deayton, Morwenna Banks and Laura Solon, has just been completed. The full-length feature film version of his book Round Ireland with a Fridge, starring Tony, Josie Lawrence, Ed Byrne and Sean Hughes, was released in Autumn 2010. The follow-up, a pastiche of Stock Aitken Waterman called This Is the Chorus, fared less well. It went on to sell 220,000 copies, and was number one in Australia. As leader of the trio Morris Minor and the Majors, he reached number 4 in the UK charts with the Beastie Boys parody, Stutter Rap (No Sleep Til Bedtime) in 1988. He first attempted to break into show business as a serious singer-songwriter, but it was with a novelty record that he had his first brush with fame. Hawks performs stand-up comedy, and is a regular on TV and radio panel games in the UK, including I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, Just a Minute, The Unbelievable Truth and Have I Got News for You, although he first came to prominence as one of two resident performers - the other was Jo Brand - on semi-successful BBC monologue show The Brain Drain. Tony Hawks, is a British comedian and author, famous for his Quizotic travel accounts undertaking bizarre wagers with friends.

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