January 2010

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  Tommy Trinder and My Upcoming gigs

  01.23.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Channel 4 are about to do another 100 Greatest Stand-Ups show as voted for by the public. Ross Noble initiated the idea to try and get the original Sunday Night at the London Palladium presenter Tommy Trinder to number one. This cause has now been taken up by Viz‘s Simon Donald, Alan Davies, Rob Rouse, [...]

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  Comedy Prequels

  01.23.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  In 1988 the BBC commissioned a prequel to their Last of the Summer Wine sitcom. It ran for two series and chronicled the early years of the tin-bath-riding octogenarians. They give this sitcom the unimaginative title of First of the Summer Wine. Now 22 years later the BBC have made a prequel to Only Fools [...]

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  Hatty & Nathaniel’s Comedy Chat Show Experiment

  01.23.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Press Release HATTY ASHDOWN AND NATHANIEL METCALFE HOST THEIR NEW COMEDY CHAT SHOW!

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  Dirk Venice 2

  01.18.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

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  The Real Dirk Venice

  01.17.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Upon reading my Dirk Venice post, my friend Beezer remembered that he once covertly took a photo of the man in the pub that Dirk Venice was originally based on. Ladies and Gentlemen; The real Dirk Venice (above).

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  Dirk Venice

  01.16.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

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  TV Pitches

  01.16.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Here are some TV ideas I’ve had for when the BBC come calling: BANKSIDE James Bolam plays Geoff Bankside a maverick policeman forced into early retirement by the Met. He now lives on a houseboat on the bankside, and other policeman have to bring him crimes that they can’t solve. He either refuses to come [...]

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  Comedy Films 4

  01.16.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Lenny (1974) Jon Chandler suggested this film, a biopic of comedian Lenny Bruce starring Dustin Hoffman. That does open us us to a whole new category of comedian biopics. That said the only other one I can think of is…

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  Comedy Films 3

  01.15.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Martin Croser also suggested the following three “films about comedy”. Mr. Saturday Night (1992) Made by Billy Crystal at the height of his powers, Crystal plays lounge comedian Buddy Young. Buddy Young was a character Crystal developed in Saturday Night Live but this is a much more dramatic movie than the other SNL spin-off’s you [...]

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  Deep Roy

  01.15.10 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  Here’s a truncated alternate version of a set I performed on Tuesday night at Lost Treasures of the Black Heart.

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