Frank Tully
- Actor
Press clippings Page 32
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle roars back
Billed as addressing wealth, it was more specific than that: it was about Lee's wealth, or lack of it.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 4th March 2016Stewart Lee interviewed
Stewart Lee is back with another series of Comedy Vehicle. He tells Simon Price his thoughts on Lenny Bruce, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn, swimming through piss, Brexit and the pitfalls of being constantly misunderstood.
Simon Price, The Quietus, 3rd March 2016Sublime stand-up from Stewart Lee
The finest half hour of comedy ever written and performed, in my opinion, was one particular episode of Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle.
Tara Pardo, The Bristol Post, 29th February 2016Will Self meets Stewart Lee
As his TV series returns to our screens, comedian Stewart Lee talks to Will Self about his prickly stage persona, how social media is changing comedy and why you won't see him on Mock the Week.
Will Self, The Guardian, 26th February 2016Grimsby: gleefully pushes the limits of bad taste (Link expired)
Comedy genius Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat, Bruno, Ali G Indahouse) may just have created a whole new genre with his latest film Grimsby, a gross-out action comedy that gleefully pushes the limits of bad taste humour, achieving almost sublimely surreal results in the process.
Matthew Turner, WOW247, 25th February 2016John Cleese rules out Fawlty Towers musical
John Cleese, who played bumbling British hotel manager Basil Fawlty in the hit 1970s TV series, says a musical version of Fawlty Towers would never work.
ABC News (Australia), 18th February 2016TV show Glee vows to fight comedy club trademark ruling
It is not over yet, says popular US TV show Glee's producers 20th Century Fox after it lost its appeal to British comedy chain The Glee Club, over a trademark dispute on the use of the name in the UK. The film studio says the case is still ongoing and could be referred to the European court.
Laura Bates, International Business Times UK, 13th February 2016Review: Lee Nelson: Suited and Booted - Salford
Brodkin is clearly a talented performer but on this occasion seems to have lost some of the power behind his punch. Nelson's charm and energy is evident in the first half but disappointingly, is let down by some weak material in the second half.
Donna Kelly, The Reviews Hub, 8th February 2016Eric Idle blogs about touring with John Cleese
It's a kangaroo tour of Australia and New Zealand. I shall be hopping round the antipodes. My companion is the legendary John Cleese, a man who has been making me laugh hysterically for 53 years.
Eric Idle, 6th February 2016John Cleese slammed over advert by Timothy West
Actor Timothy West, whose wife played the long-suffering Sybil in the classic sitcom, says it was a mistake to recreate the scene of Basil thrashing his car for Specsavers.
Hannah Hope, The Mirror, 4th February 2016