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Frank Tully

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Press clippings Page 17

BBC set to broadcast Stewart Lee stand-up show

The BBC is set to broadcast Stewart Lee's latest stand-up show, Content Provider. The comedian is set to take a long break from performing following the conclusion of his tour.

British Comedy Guide, 22nd March 2018

Lee Mack to host new comedy game show

Lee Mack is to host First & Last, a comedy game show in which members of the public mustn't come first and mustn't come last.

British Comedy Guide, 16th March 2018

Lee Mack to film live episode of Not Going Out

The 2019 series of Not Going Out will feature a live episode, Lee Mack has revealed.

British Comedy Guide, 9th March 2018

Lee Mack interview

"Everyone told me British sitcom was dead". The writer and star also opens up about the time he almost walked away from the BBC comedy - and why he writes in a shed.

Thomas Ling, Radio Times, 8th March 2018

Camilla Cleese to star in new film One Night In Bath

Camilla Cleese is to star in One Night In Bath, a new romantic comedy film going into production this summer. Her father John Cleese will also have a role in the movie.

British Comedy Guide, 2nd March 2018

Lee Mack complains about alcohol adverts

Lee Mack nearly pulled the plug on sitcom Not Going Out in a row about his work "being used to sell booze".

Radio Times, 26th February 2018

Stewart Lee, Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury - review Read m

The sexual practices of impoverished Midlanders are not your usual stand-up material but then Stewart Lee is no ordinary comedian.

Harry Leather, The Shropshire Star, 22nd February 2018

Left stony-faced by Cleese? Try bittersweet gem Mum

We all laugh at different things. Opinions were sharply divided, in my home and probably millions of others, over John Cleese's new sitcom Hold The Sunset last Sunday -- blissfully traditional, or wheezingly out-dated, depending on your taste. Mum (BBC2) tackles identical subject matter: the recently widowed woman, not yet ready for her bath chair, whose hopes of new romance with an old friend are constantly obstructed by her selfish son and the rest of her feckless family.

Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 21st February 2018

TV review: Sun will set fast on John Cleese comeback

Between the sitcom cliches, including jaunty music and folk forever bursting through the back door, characters did things they only ever do in TV comedies, such as repeating themselves.

Alison Rowat, The Herald, 19th February 2018

John Cleese's sitcom return fizzes with comic energy

This was one of those wonderful programmes about everything and nothing - love, getting on with getting on, and simply taking a deep breath and adjusting as best you can when things don't quite turn out the way you'd hoped. Who can't relate to that?

Rupert Hawksley, The Telegraph, 18th February 2018

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