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The Latest Breaking News from Bob Monkhouse

The Last Laugh at the Noel Coward Theatre review: gags, gurning, and a supremely lazy script

2/5 Impressive impersonations of Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe and Bob Monkhouse are undercut by cheap lines

Evening Standard

The Last Laugh review – Eric Morecambe, Tommy Cooper and Bob Monkhouse’s antic triple act

Bob Golding, Simon Cartwright and Damian Williams, who have played the comedy giants before, summon them like spirits to the stage in this tribute

The Guardian - UK

Edinburgh festival 2024: 20 theatre shows making a scene this summer

With subjects ranging from the deadly serious to the downright silly, this year’s shows include plays about addiction, politics, funk and Come Dine With Me

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Celebrities reveal their political allegiances, 1991

Ben Elton and Lenny Henry were backing Neil Kinnock; Bob Monkhouse and Steve Davis supported John Major

The Guardian - UK

Lost Doctor Who episodes found – but owner is reluctant to hand them to BBC

As sci-fi show’s 60th anniversary nears, a collector pleads for BBC to offer amnesty to those with recordings discarded by corporation

The Guardian - UK

Historic Swansea pub where theatre stars stayed and football fans drank is set to become flats

It once hosted star names like Bob Monkhouse, Windsor Davies and Joe Pasquale

Wales Online

Paul Stewart Laing obituary

Television producer and director behind such popular 1970s shows as Celebrity Squares and New Faces

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Jon Culshaw fulfills dream of taking Les Dawson tribute show on the road

The star of TV’s Dead Ringers is paying tribute to Blankety Blank host Les with a show that premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe and ends in Lancashire near the home of the comedy legend

Daily Mirror

Don’t Look Up: Why Adam McKay’s divisive doomsday satire should win the Oscar for Best Picture

Critics and audiences were split over the A-lister-packed disaster movie, but Kevin E G Perry argues it deserves to take home the Academy’s biggest prize for finding cathartic laughter in the dark

The Independent UK

Don’t Look Up: Why Adam McKay’s divisive doomsday satire should win the Oscar for Best Picture

Critics and audiences were split over the A-lister-packed disaster movie, but Kevin E G Perry argues it deserves to take home the Academy’s biggest prize for finding cathartic laughter in the dark

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