Funny or Die (funnyordie.co.uk) - the world’s most successful comedy web site - received its UK launch at the hands of Matt Lucas and David Walliams this week.
The Little Britain duo spearheaded the UK launch as co-founders and will be providing exclusive clips and sketches to the site on a monthly basis as well as [...]
David Walliams & Matt Lucas launch funnyordie.co.uk
Sorry - More Ronnie Corbett!
[singlepic=51,320,240,,right]Of course, you should never apologise for quality… and thanks to David Walliams and Rob Brydon, Ronnie Corbett will be returning to our screens as the star of a new sitcom set in a care home.
Corbett has described the part of the aging lothario as a “sort of Hugh Hefner character”… and it’s [...]
Little Britain Movie?
[singlepic=40,320,240,,right]The BBC have reported that Matt Lucas and David Walliams are working on two new films.
Best known for Little Britain (although their Rock Profiles series for UK Play was certainly as funny in places), Lucas and Walliams are apparently developing a new project with Working Title (Hot Fuzz) while simultaneously working with Dreamworks.
Shooting on the [...]
Rather You Than Me
[singlepic=25,320,240,,right] The Curse of Comedy series on BBC Four ended last week with David Walliams as Frankie Howerd in Rather You Than Me, and it was a bleak portrait of a very funny man, plagued by self doubt, self loathing and nerves, stemming it seemed from a period of abuse from his father during childhood.
The [...]
Curse of Comedy
[singlepic=25,320,240,,right]By far and away the most interesting instalment of BBC Four’s Curse of Comedy season is tonight’s final instalment, “Rather You Than Me” which as you may now stars David Walliams as Frankie Howerd.
That isn’t to denigrate the other films – in particular the Tony Hancock and Joan le Mesurier tale was something I had [...]
Ooh Titter Ye Not!
[singlepic=23,240,320,,right]Let’s call it “Frankie Howerd Week” on Quintessential Comedy, as we look forward to the upcoming Howerd mini biopic to close the Curse of Comedy series this Wednesday.
As a stand up comic, Howerd’s routine was apparently a ramshackle display of stories that are interrupted by Frankie’s customary asides, mini stories and direct addressing of various [...]
