‘We asked Billy Connolly to do 15 minutes. He said “I’ll do as long as I want”’: the sweary, shambolic all-nighter that became Comic Relief | Comic Relief

‘We asked Billy Connolly to do 15 minutes. He said “I’ll do as long as I want”’: the sweary, shambolic all-nighter that became Comic Relief | Comic Relief

A near-the-knuckle Spitting Image skit involving the former prince Andrew. The Young Ones performing their chaotic single Living Doll with Cliff Richard. Kate Bush someway being coaxed on to a stage to duet with Rowan Atkinson. It was 40 years in the past this month that Comic Relief staged its inaugural occasion at London’s Shaftesbury…

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The Dyers’ Caravan Park review – this lazy, shambolic show does nothing to help the real people involved | Danny Dyer

The Dyers’ Caravan Park review – this lazy, shambolic show does nothing to help the real people involved | Danny Dyer

Like him or detest him – I like him – Danny Dyer not often misfires. The geezer “act” is an act solely insofar as each superstar is an act; he’s a more-than-competent actor and he has offered some first rate documentaries (particularly his most up-to-date one, about fashionable masculinity). The Dyers’ Caravan Park, nevertheless, is…

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