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27 Nov 2006
CD The massive success of Ricky Gervais has occasionally been a bemusing thing. For every single episode of sheer genius that was The Office, there remains the dank memory of his ‘stand-up’ ‘career’. As excellent as the majority of Extras has been…
COMEDY/THRILLER Sometimes things just don’t work out. Particles and elements shift and design gets de-railroaded. That’s how you end up with a koala bear instead of a kangaroo or in this case a Big Nothing instead of Blood Simple or Fargo Big…
23 Nov 2006
Norma Farnes Box 18: The Unpublished Spike Milligan (HarperCollins) Named after the file into which the Goon would stick his ideas, this loving biog comes from his long-suffering agent.
Howard Read Not sure whether he will be trotting up here with his pal Little Howard, but if you ask him nicely he might even draw something. The Stand, Edinburgh, Thu 7-Sat 9 Dec. More details for Thursday , Friday and Saturday . Have a look at some of…
5 THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT . . . 1 He has to be one of the tallest men in comedy. Weirdly, his PR man also handles Alun Cochrane and Reginald D Hunter, who are very far from shrinking midgets themselves. 2 His big TV break came with…
SPOOF/COMEDY Confoundedly eccentric, inordinately shambolic and downright hilarious, this one-of-a-kind British cinema oddity plays like a collaboration between Luis Buñuel and the Monty Python team. It’s actually the fever dream of Vivian Stanshall…
COMEDY/DRAMA/FANTASY We’re so used to Will Ferrell playing the crazed maniac that it’s a pleasant surprise to see that he can play the straight guy equally well. He’s Howard Crick, a taxman with an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder whose life is turned…
21 Nov 2006
Christopher Walken has played some pretty crazy guys in his time but he’s in for the challenge of his career in The Dirt. In the film based on the book about Motley Crue , Walken will make a cameo as Ozzy Osbourne while, equally as intriguing, Val…
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27 Nov 2006
27 Nov 2006
