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Comedy in the UK


Sections:	Introduction
	Backyard Comedy Club
	Jongleurs Comedy Clubs
	British film comedy
	British TV comedy
	British radio comedy
	British humorous books
	Links

INTRODUCTION

Enjoy British comedy.

Products related to comedy:

Book ; Audio CD ; DVD (British films) ; DVD (TV comedy) ; Video

Modern-day Charlie Chaplins

BACKYARD COMEDY CLUB

Lee Hurst's Backyard Comedy Club is one of London's top comedy clubs. It is located at 231 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2: 1 minute's walk from Bethnal Green Tube station (on the Central line; see: map). To find out who is performing and ticket prices, see: http://www.leehurst.com

Lee Mack

appreciative audience

Glen Wool

Live at the Backyard (Audio CD)
Performer: Lee Hurst
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date: April 2000

Live (Audio CD)
Performer: Lee Hurst
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date: November 2002
Cassette tapes

JONGLEURS COMEDY CLUBS

Jongleurs is the name of a group of comedy clubs across the UK.
There are 3 Jongleurs clubs in London (in Battersea, Bow and Camden), plus clubs in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Leicester, Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford, Portsmouth, Reading, Southampton and Watford.
As well as regular performances at the Jongleurs clubs, performers also go on tour at other venues across the UK.
For details, see: http://www.jongleurs.co.uk

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BRITISH FILM COMEDY

See also: Britain/Films

	Bridget Jones's Diary (DVD) (comedy about a woman ) Studio: Meridian Entertainment Date: December 2001		Notting Hill (DVD) (comedy, set in London, with Hugh Grant) Studio: BBC Worldwide Publishing Date: November 2001
	The Full Monty (DVD) (comedy set in Sheffield, north England) Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Date: June 2000		Wallace & Gromit: 'A Grand Day Out', 'The Wrong Trousers' & 'A Close Shave' (DVD) (Oscar-winning animation; set in Lancashire, north England) Studio: BBC Worldwide Publishing Date: October 2002

BRITISH TV COMEDY

For information about comedy programmes involving Rowan Atkinson, see: Britain/Films/English.

	Little Britain - Series 1 (DVDs) Studio: BBC Worldwide Publishing Date: October 2004 Book (scripts)		Fawlty Towers - Complete (DVDs) (John Cleese comedy set in a hotel) Studio: BBC Worldwide Publishing Date: November 2001 Book ; Audio CD #1 ; Audio CD #2 ; Audio CD #3
	The Office - Series 2 (DVDs) Studio: BBC Worldwide Publishing Date: October 2003 Book (scripts)		The Office - The Complete Series 1 (DVDs) Studio: BBC Worldwide Publishing Date: October 2002 Book (scripts)
	Ripping Yarns - The Box Set (DVDs) (comic short stories by Michael Palin) Studio: Meridian Entertainment Date: July 2001		The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus (DVDs) (Monty Python comedy sketches) Studio: BBC Worldwide Publishing Date: May 2003

BRITISH RADIO COMEDY

See also: English/Listening

	Hancock's Half Hour (series 6) (Audio CDs) Starring: Tony Hancock Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Date: February 2003		I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue: Four (Audio CD) Starring: Tim Brooke-Taylor & others Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Date: July 2003
	Little Britain: The Complete Radio Series 1 (CDs) Date: September 2004 Little Britain: The Complete Radio Series 2 (CDs) Date: October 2004 Studio: BBC Audiobooks

BRITISH HUMOROUS BOOKS

See also: English/Reading

The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts
(science fiction comedy)
Author: Douglas Adams; Publisher: Carlton Books
Date: October 1995
Audio CDs ; Tapes

The Best of Alex 2003
(cartoon about a London banker)
Author: Charles Peattie, Russell Taylor
Publisher: Carlton Books
Date: October 2003

LINKS

Photos from the annual clown service: Ideas/Album/ClownService
Photos from Red Nose Day (Comic Relief): Ideas/Album/RedNoseDay
Fun with the English language: Ideas/Fun
British music: Britain/Music
British films: Britain/Films

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