Liam Kelly

Spitting Image puppets to tread boards in West End

For many years, no public figure of a certain standing was safe from being lampooned by grotesque latex figurines on primetime TV. Now they will have to absorb potshots from the stage too. The satirical puppet show Spitting Image is bound for the West End with a live run likely next year.

Liam Kelly, The Sunday Times, 2nd May 2021

Osman's debut novel to join the million-sales club

Barring a calamity, the tall one from the TV quiz show Pointless will make literary history this week. Richard Osman is on the brink of selling the millionth copy of his debut novel.

Liam Kelly, The Sunday Times, 21st March 2021

Banish stress with improv class? You having a laugh?

Unlike most workers at this stage of the pandemic, Liam Brennan still relishes his video calls. "I'm in a position where a Zoom meeting isn't a 'What the hell am I doing?' task," he said. "I know it's going to be a laugh for two hours." Brennan, 32, has reasons to be cheerful. He is an improvisational comedy tutor at Hoopla, reckoned to be the country's oldest dedicated improv theatre, and leads online classes most nights while its site near London Bridge is shut. No two sessions are the same, but all are full of silliness.

Liam Kelly, The Sunday Times, 14th February 2021