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Bob Blackman's Tray answers 10 Fringe Questions

Johnny Sorrow and Richard Drake, the performers behind the surreal show Bob Blackman's Tray, answer 10 questions.

British Comedy Guide, 17th July 2015

The Bob Blackman Appreciation Society

To be found infrequently in the back rooms of pubs, The Bob Blackman Appreciation Society's boundary-pushing variety act pays homage to a time gone by - but updates it with an indefinable weirdness.

Jon Whiteley, The Skinny, 2nd October 2014

Para Handy (BBC1) is a perfectly pleasant period piece but I wonder if there's something I should understand about the style of acting? No lip is unpursed. No jaw undropped. No eye unpopped. This is the last happy home of the tossed head, the broad wink and the gulp. Is this something they do in Scotland?

Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 8th August 1995

I have a covert fondness, which I hope you will keep to yourselves, for City Lights (BBC2). This is Glasgow comedy like Rab C. Nesbitt and Naked Video and nothing much else on earth. [...] Like catching the wrong bus, it takes you into an unknown world.

Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 15th March 1991

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