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Al Read. Copyright: BBC
Al Read

Al Read

  • Actor and stand-up comedian

Press clippings

Leicester Comedy Festival ready to go out with a bang

It is almost time to say goodbye to Leicester Comedy Festival for another year - but there are lots of laughs still to be squeezed in.

Samantha Fisher, Leicester Mercury, 22nd February 2014

In It's All in Life (ATV) Read did acute impressions of a drunk, the wife of a drunk, the policeman who arrested the drunk. I liked them all. I always did. This is, astonishingly, called a brand new series, and if so, it is proof positive of reincarnation for I have somewhere, sometime, heard it all before.

Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 6th January 1973

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