Here’s a live show I would give my soul to have seen in person. In 1986, Rik Mayall and Ben Elton toured the UK with their show A Night Of Stand Up Comedy. Here’s what Angela Thomas made of it all in The Stage on the 9th January.
By May, they had relocated the tour to Australia. But we’ll look at that a bit more tomorrow.
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For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s […]
Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first […]
