Autumn 2004 releases

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Eddie Izzard: Sexie

This is Eddie’s first CD release in six years. Currently the most successful stand-up comedian ever in the UK, Eddie has sold more CDs during his career than any other UK comedian. Recorded during the Sexie world tour, where Eddie played three continents in six months to estimated audiences of 500,000, this double CD is Eddie’s funniest to date. £14.99 for double CD BUY

John Bird & John Fortune: The Long Johns Vol 4

More satirical improvisation from the stars of Channel Four’s Bremner Bird &  Fortune. Bird and Fortune have been the leading lights in political satire since they performed at Peter Cook’s Establishment Club in the late Sixties. They have worked with Rory Bremner for the last ten years, and have appeared as actors/performers separately in many sitcoms and radio series in their own right. This is the first new release by Bird & Fortune since 1998. Taken from last year’s Bremner Bird & Fortune TV series, the boys conduct mock interviews on subjects ranging from Merchant Banking, Terrorism, Islam, the Balkans and the Pension Crisis. £12.99 BUY

Hattie Hayridge: Random Abstract Memory

Published in book form by Penguin, this is Red Dwarf’s Hattie Hayridge telling her story as a stand up comic in the very early years of alternative comedy, before being cast as Holly the Computer in Red Dwarf, one of the longest running sitcoms on British TV, as well as other amusing and bizarre episodes in her life. Hattie is still a stalwart of the stand up comedy circuit, as well as an actress and radio performer.  Hattie is still a stalwart of the stand up comedy circuit, as well as an actress and radio performer. £12.99 BUY

The Reduced Shakespeare Company Radio Show

The Reduced Shakespeare Co’s ‘The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) is currently  the longest running comedy in London’s West End. It has been performed all over the world, and translated into 17 languages. This triple CD is a radio production of the stage show, commissioned by the BBC and produced by Laughing Stock Productions in six half hour episodes. Compared in comedy terms to the Marx Brothers, The Reduced Shakespeare Co are one of the most original comedy troupes to come out of the USA for decades! £12.99 for triple CD. BUY

Mark Steel: The Lectures Vol. 2

Mark Steel is a stand up comedian, best selling author, broadcaster, newspaper columnist and appears regularly on TV. Always at the vanguard of left wing political humour since the 80s, Mark's BBC Radio 4 series The Mark Steel Lectures‚ has won him fans and admirers throughout the country. This double CD features four extremely well researched, humorous and cuttingly observed monologues on the lives of Lord Byron, Aristotle, Billie Holiday and Che Guevara. £12.99 for double CD. BUY

Scott Capurro: Live

Scott Capurro is a US based gay comic with a tremendous following in the UK, amongst gay and straight audiences. He has appeared many times on TV in this country, and is currently performing a new play at the Edinburgh Festival, where he will also be performing his stand up shows. Having been unsuccessfully made the target of a lifetime ban from Liverpool by the Catholic church, Scott is happily talking to a terrestrial broadcaster about a new UK television series and will be extending his live appearances in the
UK until end November of this year. £9.99. BUY

Mitch Benn & The Distractions will be promoting this CD on tour during October/November. Mitch has been voted Best New Comic at The Glastonbury Festival, Comedian of the Year at the Leicester Comedy Festival and he is a regular on BBC Radio 4's The Now Show and BBC Radio 2's It's Been A Bad Week. Most recently, Radio 4 have commissioned his very own series, Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music. He has recorded this new album with his
band The Distractions featuring Tash Bayliss, (ex Hepburns and sessions for Enya, Andrea Bocelli and Busted) on drums & percussion and Kirsty Newton, keyboards and vocals. Mitch is an extremely talented musician and comic writer whose mixture of beautifully crafted songs and superbly comic lyrics should see him in the music charts in the very near future. £9.99 BUY

Rainer combines his skills as a stand-up with his music in this simple and stupid approach to the difficult subjects "How to play instruments without practicing"; "Why is organ music so boring?" and "What do conductors actually do?"  This live show was also made into a Radio 4 programme. £9.99 BUY

Recorded live in Edinburgh on the night the US and British military forces launched their attack on Bagdad. £12.99 for double CD. BUY

Published: 1 Nov 2004