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Frank Tully

  • Actor

Press clippings Page 65

Stewart Lee: John Cage meets Ant & Dec

In 2001, I was invited by ITV to pitch Ant & Dec a sitcom idea. I suggested the pair should play bickering lighthouse keepers on a lonely rock.

Stewart Lee, The Guardian, 16th September 2012

Comedy gold: Stewart Lee's 90s Comedian

Britain's best standup offers a theatrical masterclass in comic timing, baroque repetitions and sheer, barefaced bravura.

Leo Benedictus, The Guardian, 13th September 2012

Fringe round-up I - clowns, rape gags and Stewart Lee

Now the 2012 Fringe is done, some closing thoughts...

London Is Funny, 30th August 2012

Maureen Lipman takes a swipe at John Cleese

Maureen Lipman suggests John Cleese has the mental age of a 17 year-old following the news that he has married for the fourth time.

Tim Walker, The Telegraph, 23rd August 2012

Stewart Lee interview

Stewart Lee - currently playing the Edinburgh Festival - talks panel shows, Jimmy Carr, and cost-effective comedy.

Paul McNamee, The Big Issue, 21st August 2012

'Russell Brand was too dirty to sleep with'

Jasmine Lennard revealed on Celebrity Big Brother that she thought Russell Brand was too dirty to sleep with.

Daily Mail, 18th August 2012

Why Stewart Lee is wrong about the death of the Fringe

Charlie Wood from Underbelly: Stewart Lee and Tommy Sheppard's criticisms of my venue and the fringe only damage the artists they say they want to help - and make them sound like a pair of grumpy old men.

Charlie Wood, The Guardian, 16th August 2012

BBC Three orders new Lee Nelson sketch show

BBC Three has ordered Lee Nelson's Well Funny People, a new sketch vehicle for character comedian Simon Brodkin.

British Comedy Guide, 16th August 2012

John Cleese marries for the fourth time

With three failed marriages behind him - the last one forcing him to hand over more than £12million of his fortune - another trip down the aisle might have seemed the furthest thing from his mind. The 72-year-old John Cleese has married girlfriend Jennifer Wade, 31 years his junior, on the Caribbean island of Mustique.

Liz Thomas, Daily Mail, 13th August 2012

Lee Ridley: Stand-up success for 'Lost Voice Guy' comic

Born with cerebral palsy, Lee Ridley does not have a voice of his own. But that has not stopped him from braving the stage as a stand-up comedian.

Phil Mawson, BBC News, 9th August 2012

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