Frank Tully
- Actor
Press clippings Page 54
Opinion: Should Justin Lee Collins be on the radio?
The announcement has prompted some serious head-scratching. Should the station be employing Collins? It's a classic difficult decision. He has served his sentence, he has a right to work. I guess in this case you have a right not to subscribe to him. Or maybe to paraphrase one wag on Twitter, you have a right to cancel your introductory free subscription. Will those on a free trial listen to the man who was on trial?
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 7th March 2014Stewart Lee: The BBC don't promote the series
Comedy Vehicle's return was hastened in part because of a routine about UKIP in tomorrow's episode, which had to air before April 11th to comply with BBC rules on not broadcasting political satire too close to the European elections.
Jay Richardson, Chortle, 7th March 2014Lee Mack: How to eat well after a gig
Lee Mack explains precisely how to get the best out of any menu.
Lee Mack, GQ, 6th March 2014Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle Season 3 review
It's great to have him back and here's one element of the license fee that is a great investment. Stewart Lee never was the 41st best, but his current work suggest he's in a league of his own.
John White, The Digital Fix, 4th March 2014Why Stewart Lee is wrong about slapstick
In his TV series Comedy Vehicle Lee pours scorn on slapstick by berating Del Boy's fall through the bar for being voted number one in a Funniest TV Momentclip show: "Is that really what we've come to, Britain? Del Boy falling through a bar, and Trigger making a face?!" Significantly, many of the other top clips were also sight gags - Cleese's silly walks, Dawn French collapsing into a puddle... It seems that 80 years since the advent of sound technology we still favour the sight gag over the verbal. Why?
Julian Dutton, The Huffington Post, 3rd March 2014Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, TV review
This comedy about comedy would be unforgivably self-indulgent if Stewart Lee wasn't just as incisive on every other facet of modern life as he is on his own comedic genius.
Ellen E Jones, The Independent, 2nd March 2014Monty Python lose comedy crown to Lee Evans
The reunion of the Monty Python team should have been the comedy event of the year but it's been knocked into second place, says ticket website viagogo.
The Daily Express, 2nd March 2014Preview: Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, BBC Two
Let's hope this series picks up some new fans as well as his usual followers who watch him with religious devotion. Well, I say religious devotion, but, of course, as I said, god doesn't exist.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 25th February 2014Andrew Sachs: 'John Cleese once hit me so hard'
The actor on Sachsgate, fleeing the Nazis and being thumped by Basil Fawlty.
Tim Lewis, The Observer, 21st February 2014The Lee Evans lookalike who runs a pet shop
One is Lee Evans, the legendary stand-up comedian who has performed in front of millions. The other is John Barlow, who runs a pet shop in Clifton.
Marcus Boocock, Nottingham Post, 20th February 2014