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Ruth Bratt joins The Comedy Store Players

Improv group The Comedy Store Players are to be joined by a new core member for the first time in almost thirty years. Ruth Bratt will start performing at the weekly show from March.

British Comedy Guide, 22nd February 2024

Comedy Store Players announce improv tour

Four of the original Comedy Store Players improv troupe will perform a number of tour dates early next year.

British Comedy Guide, 29th September 2023

Comedy Store Players improvised show to stream online

The Comedy Store Players, the UK's longest-running improvisation team, will be putting a show online for the very first time since they started in 1985.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 18th May 2020

How comedy captured the Edinburgh Fringe: part 3

In the third part of our Fringe history, two long-forgotten venues put comedy before theatre with the help of Austin Powers and a Wonder Dog.

Ben Venables, The Skinny, 11th July 2017

L Vaughan Spencer launches Kickstarter campaign

Motivational guru L Vaughan Spencer has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund his new live DVD, entitled Don't Be Needy Be Succeedy. Spencer is recording the show at the Comedy Store in London on November 17 and has said that this may be his last-ever live performance, though he may still be available for corporate bookings. L Vaughan Spencer is the creation of Comedy Store Player and actor Neil Mullarkey.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 29th October 2014

Neil Mullarkey interview

How did a stand-up comedian and improviser become a business guru?

John Fleming, , 26th April 2014

Neil Mullarkey on 1980s alternative comedy

"In the old Comedy Store in Leicester Square," said Neil, "there was no toilet in the dressing room. There was a sink you could pee in. Sometimes a woman would say: I'm going to have a pee; do you mind leaving the room? And we did. Otherwise they'd have had to go all round and queue up with the punters. But now we have a toilet."

John Flemming, John Fleming's Blog, 24th April 2014

Neil Mullarkey to run Twitter-powered improv show

Improvisation legend Neil Mullarkey is to host a Twitter-powered comedy event on Monday night, 140 Characters.

British Comedy Guide, 3rd November 2011

A British comedy invasion

Telegraph Expat talks to comedians Stephen Frost and Neil Mullarkey about why they enjoy performing abroad.

Leah Hyslop, The Telegraph, 6th October 2010

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