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Life / Entertainment / Comedy
Comedy in the UK
     
Sections:
Introduction
Arts (c) R.T.Allen
  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

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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

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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

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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

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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
   

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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

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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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