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Britain's Oldest Stand Up. Jack Woodward. Copyright: Testimony Films
Britain's Oldest Stand Up

Britain's Oldest Stand Up

  • TV documentary
  • More4
  • 2012
  • 1 episode

First Cut documentary following 90-year old Chelsea Pensioner Jack Woodward returning to his previous career as a stand-up comic. Features Jack Woodward, Ed Byrne and Les Keen.

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This cockle-warming film follows 90-year-old Jack Woodward, who dreams of reviving his comedy career for one last gig at the Hammersmith Apollo. Woodward performed to troops during the Second World War and was a BBC warm-up man in the Sixties. He's now a Chelsea pensioner who hasn't been on stage for half a century and his jokes are, to put it kindly, showing signs of age. Can he update them, then remember the new material? Most importantly, can this frail gent make an audience of 3,000 youngsters laugh?

Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 27th July 2012

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