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Comedy, Issue 561

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The best comedy

17 Oct 2006

Rob Deering The manic chap with a nice line in musical analysis aims to rock your comedic world. The Stand, Edinburgh, Thu 19-Sat 21 Oct.

Peter Sellers Collection, The - DVD review

The Peter Sellers Collection

17 Oct 2006

COMEDY Master or monster? Idol or idiot? Genius or jackass? The debate still simmers upon which side Peter Sellers’ legacy should fall, but it would be a shame if his reel life was tainted by his clear failings as a husband or father. Just prior to…

Ed Byrne

12 Oct 2006

We’ll grant you that Ed Byrne is prone to standing up. But falling down? Not this consummate writer and performer. So, his show, Standing Up and Falling Down might not fully work as a title, but the guy’s stirring confidence and natural verve ensures…

Ian Pattison

Looking at the Stars (Black and White)

12 Oct 2006

COMEDY DRAMA Judging by the predicaments experienced by the anti-hero of his third novel, Ian Pattison looks to be exorcising his Rab C Nesbitt ghosts. Tucker, a fortysomething one-time screenwriter, currently reading scripts to make a living, lives…

Jim Davidson

12 Oct 2006

5 THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT . . . 1 He failed the audition to play the part of the Artful Dodger in the movie Oliver! 2 Later on in life, he managed to nab roles in Peter Greenaway’s A Zed and Two Noughts and in last year’s Colour Me…

Michael McIntyre - My Hero

Michael McIntyre

12 Oct 2006

MY HERO The nominations for my comedy hero are Billy Connolly, Larry David, Woody Allen and Richard Pryor . And the winner is . . . Woody Allen. But it was close. Connolly is fantastically naturally funny and a benchmark for my own comedy while David…

Peter Kay

The Sound of Laughter (Century)

12 Oct 2006

COMEDY AUTOBIOGRAPHY Since Peter Kay has built his career almost entirely upon a shared sense of nostalgia, it is only to be expected that his autobiography might contain a few ‘an’ then it were all back ‘ome for Manimal’ style anecdotes. But…

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