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21/04/2017 … Quotes of the week ‘All people are sad clowns.
2017 Archives
Fri 21 April 2017
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Ross Noble to appear in Young Frankenstein
Playing Igor in new musical version
21/04/2017 … Ross Noble is to appear in the new musical stage version of the Mel Brooks comedy Young Frankenstein.
Stand-up novel nominated for Booker Prize
A Horse Walks Into A Bar describes comic's breakdown
21/04/2017 … A novel based on a single fictional stand-up set has been nominated for this year's Man Booker International Prize.
Did Brendan O'Carroll really 'nearly kill' Mrs Thatcher?
That's wha the Mrs Brown creator tells Graham Norton
21/04/2017 … Mrs Brown creator Brendan O’Carroll says he once accidentally served with Margaret Thatcher with strawberries – covered in salt.
Mark Thomas releases script collection
Annotated transcripts of his last three shows
21/04/2017 … Mark Thomas is releasing the scripts from his last three acclaimed one-man stage show in a new book.
Ben Elton to give the first Ronnie Barker Talk
New comedy lectures on BBC One
21/04/2017 … Ben Elton is to give the first Ronnie Barker Talk – a new annual lecture on a comedy-related theme to be broadcast on BBC One.
Nikki Britton is Romanticide
Review by Steve Bennett at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
21/04/2017 … ‘It’s going to be a lot of energy in a small space for an hour,’ Nikki Britton promises.
David Quirk: Cowboy Mouth
Review by Steve Bennett at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
21/04/2017 … What could be worse than people telling you their dreams? How about someone telling you of dreams other people have had about them? That’s the apparent…