Graham Duff
- English
- Actor, writer, producer and script editor
Press clippings
Johnny Vegas to star in Ideal stage show
A 20th anniversary theatre version of BBC sitcom Ideal is to launch in Salford in September 2025, with Johnny Vegas reprising his role as Moz.
British Comedy Guide, 14th November 2024Brass Eye, Fist Of Fun actor Bill Cashmore dies
Actor Bill Cashmore, who appeared in a number of classic comedy shows, has died. He was 56.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 16th November 2017Count Arthur Strong: The Sound Of Mucus review
This show, directed by Graham Duff, plays to all the Count's strengths, as the master of mishap, malt whisky and malapropism makes a right hash of trying to recreate the Sound of Music with a distinctly limited budget.
Tim Pilcher & Sue Bradley, The Latest, 3rd April 2017Count Arthur Strong: The Sound of Mucus Tour - review
As Count Arthur continues his progress from obscurity to national treasure, his extremely loyal fan base will afford him considerable uncritical leeway. The difficult part is to discern which parts of the supporting performance structure help to better define the Count's absurd persona, and which are irrelevant, or even distracting and detracting.
Jim Gillespie, The Reviews Hub, 6th March 2017Stuart Mitchell's making an excellent fist of comedy
Losing the tips of two fingers at the age of five, finding your mum dead from suicide two years later, and then watching your dad die of stomach cancer - it doesn't sound like the obvious stuff of comedy. But Stuart Mitchell is proving a real hit at this year's Edinburgh Fringe with a show that actively embraces all of the above (and a whole lot more) in a festival debut that defies the audience not to share his positive approach to life.
Calum McDonald, Positively Scottish, 10th August 2016Fist of Fun, season 1 review
In 1995, comedy writing duo Stewart Lee and Richard Herring created this bizarre sketch show that was both of its era and eerily revolutionary.
Anglonerd, 9th September 2015Death, reviewers, pigs, ham-fistedness & drink
Reviews, of course, are both the dream and the nightmare of performers at the Fringe and some of the fly-by-night publications employ (unpaid) youngsters who are barely literate, let alone knowledgable.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 31st August 2015Ham Fist Award: the short list
Nominations are Greame Connelly's review of Stuart Goldsmith, Paul Fleckney's review of Bobby Mair, Mark Divine Calver's review of Lieven Scheire, Laura Geoff's review of The Beau Zeaux, and Philip Fraser's review of Joseph Morpurgo.
FringePig, 27th August 2015Comedian and comedy critic in fist fight at Fringe
Comedians and critics tend to have a love-hate relationship. Critics tend to love comedy and comics tend to hate critics.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 22nd August 2015Preview: The Rubberbandits - Continental Fistfight
TPR Caught up with Blindboy Boat Club from The Rubberbandits, whose show Continental Fistfight is at the Gilded Balloon this Fringe.
The Public Reviews, 5th August 2014