Stan & Ollie
- 2019 film
Biopic film following Laurel & Hardy on their 1953 UK tour. Stars Steve Coogan, John C. Reilly, Nina Arianda, Shirley Henderson, Rufus Jones and more.
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The best comedy of 2019
Another year has past and once again it's been a pretty amazing one for comedy across the board, and it's been hard to whittle each category down to a top 10. But here are our suggestions for the best tv, film and live comedy of the year, along with a couple of other lists as well.
Alex Finch, Comedy To Watch, 31st December 2019Writers' Guild Awards 2020 shortlist
Danny Brocklehurst, Lisa McGee, Rufus Jones, Tom Neenan, Brenda Gilhooly, Caroline Moran and James J Moran are amongst the comedy writers nominated for the Writers' Guild Awards 2020.
British Comedy Guide, 4th December 2019Stan & Ollie DVD review
It's a rare example of an exceedingly gentle and alluring film, and an exuberant celebration of two of the most talented comedians the world has ever seen.
Alice Finch, Comedy To Watch, 26th March 2019Review: Stan & Ollie
Long gone are the days of the noughties rom-com and Jon S. Baird's charming biopic, Stan & Ollie, proves that the best way to warm our hearts is through the bromance comedy.
Helena Merron, The Student Newspaper, 31st January 2019Review: Stan & Ollie
Stan & Ollie is as well-crafted, with a warm tone and gentle pacing, just like the perfected comedy routines of the iconic duo of the title.
The Edinburgh Reporter, 18th January 2019Stan & Ollie and The Favourite performing at box office
Steve Coogan, John C Reilly and happy audiences propel biopic to top of the rankings as The Favourite also comes up smiling after two weekends in cinemas
Charles Gant, The Guardian, 15th January 2019Stan & Ollie review from Mark Kermode
Steve Coogan and John C Reilly excel in this bittersweet film about the twilight years of the great double act.
Mark Kermode, The Guardian, 13th January 2019Where are the great comedy double acts of today?
This weekend, audiences around the country will have been taken into a bygone era by Stan & Ollie, a film guaranteed to ensure we fall in love all over again with Laurel and Hardy, courtesy of Steve Coogan and John C Reilly's remarkable, eerily exact impersonations.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 13th January 2019Will Gompertz reviews Stan & Ollie
It doesn't attempt to poison their legacy, but to celebrate and acknowledge it, while contemplating what it must have been like for this odd couple to come to terms with each other, their shared past, and uncertain future.
Will Gompertz, BBC, 12th January 2019The real story of the relationship in Stan & Ollie
It's been said that offscreen, Laurel and Hardy were quite the opposite of their movie characters.
i Newspaper, 12th January 2019