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Richard Curtis. Copyright: Comic Relief
Richard Curtis

Richard Curtis

  • 68 years old
  • English
  • Writer, director, producer and executive producer

Richard Curtis features

The Tall Guy. Dexter King (Jeff Goldblum) Features

Comedy Rewind: Jeff Goldblum is The Tall Guy

Sunday 2nd February 2025

The Tall Guy may be long forgotten, but this 1989 feature deserves reappraisal as the film debuts of both writer Richard Curtis and director Mel Smith.

Blackadder. Image shows left to right: Lord Edmund Blackadder V (Rowan Atkinson), Baldrick (Tony Robinson). Credit: Tiger Aspect Productions TV

Blackadder Back and Forth - The forgotten special

Monday 1st January 2024

An article looking back at Blackadder Back and Forth, the special episode of the sitcom made for the Millennium Dome.

Just For Laughs London 2023 Live

Just For Laughs festival, London - Mark Muldoon's Comedy Diary

Tuesday 7th March 2023

Organisers of London's Just For Laughs festival are aiming for the event to eventually become "the UK's most recognised comedy festival". With a debut line-up that included Graham Norton, James Acaster, Aisling Bea and Nish Kumar, Mark Muldoon sizes up just how likely that's looking...

Comic Relief. Copyright: BBC TV

The Great Red Nose Day Parodies

Monday 15th March 2021

We take a look at a mainstay of the Red Nose Day telethons: the all-star parody.

Flickers Of The Future Pro

£100,000 prize available for climate change comedy idea

Tuesday 26th November 2019

Flickers Of The Future, a charity-sponsored opportunity for creators aged 18-29, has a £100,000 production funding prize. Judges include Richard Curtis.

Latitude 2018. Copyright: Aryan Jafri Live

Latitude 2018 Report

Thursday 19th July 2018

Latitude is the ultimate outdoor arts festival (with lots of decent music too) - this year with added dust and band-dissing. Big names wandering about onstage and off, new comic discoveries, Dr Buckles DJing, pink sheep and green ants - it was quite a weekend.

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