The comedian, who held a 2009 tour at The Manchester Arena, was named as the most successful comic of all time in what book?
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The Tour That Doesn't Tour Tour...Now On Tour The Tour That Doesn't Tour Tour...Now On Tour was a comedy tour announced in November 2009 by Peter Kay. Originally, Kay said he would be playing four dates at The Manchester Arena, which was later extended to 20 nights in April and May 2010, with a tour entitled "The Tour That Doesn't Tour Tour". The reason Kay was restricting the tour to Manchester was so he could be close to his family. During an interview with Jonathan Ross, Kay announced that due to high demand for tickets, he would now be extending his tour, renaming the tour to "The Tour That Doesn't Tour Tour...Now On Tour" to take place in November 2010 and April 2011. The tour will visit Manchester, London, Dublin, Belfast, Cardiff, Glasgow, Sheffield, Birmingham, Newcastle, and Liverpool before returning to Manchester.
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Peter Kay Peter John Kay Hon. D.A. (born 2 July 1973) is an English comedian and actor. His 2010-11 stand-up comedy tour was officially inaugurated into the "Guinness World Records" as the most successful of all time, playing to over 1.2 million people. In a 2004 poll for the BBC, Kay was named the 46th most influential person in British culture.
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Charlie Higson Charles Murray "Charlie" Higson (born 3 July 1958) is an English actor, comedian, author, and former singer. He has also written and produced for television.
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Tommy Trafford Tommy Trafford (December 30, 1927 – March 20, 1993) was a Lancashire comedian and a noted pantomime dame.
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Tony Book Anthony Keith Book is an English retired footballer and manager who was born in Bath, 4 September 1934. Book spent a large part of his career in Non-League football with his home town club Bath City, before entering league football with Plymouth Argyle. At the age of 31, he joined First Division Manchester City, where he became captain. Under Book's captaincy, Manchester City won four trophies, making him the most decorated Manchester City captain of all-time. Book had a five-year tenure as Manchester City manager from 1974 to 1979, and subsequently held various coaching roles at the club until 1996.
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Piff the Magic Dragon John van der Put (born 9 June 1980) is a magician and comedian from the United Kingdom who performs under the stage name Piff the Magic Dragon. A winner of multiple awards from British magic societies, he toured as a supporting act for band Mumford and Sons, and appeared on television shows "Fool Us" and "America's Got Talent". He lives in Las Vegas and is resident at The Flamingo.
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Bigger and Blackerer Bigger and Blackerer: a 2010 album and DVD that stars American stand-up comedian David Cross. The album's title plays on Chris Rock's comedy album, "Bigger & Blacker", and the cover plays off of the popular art form of painting on black velvet, such as Velvet Elvis (and is reminiscent of the Ray Charles album "Ray Charles Greatest Hits"). Cross taped and recorded the album during two shows at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston.
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Are You Dave Gorman? Are You Dave Gorman? is the title of a stage show by the British documentary comedian Dave Gorman and the book of the same name, co-written by Gorman and Danny Wallace. The BBC television series "The Dave Gorman Collection"— Gorman's first television show—was based on the show. The original show was created for the 2000 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and was nominated for a prestigious Perrier award. An extended version of the show was taken to the West End, then to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (where it was nominated for a Barry Award), the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado (where it won the Jury Award for Best One Person Show) and finally to New York where it ran for more than three months and was named Best Comedy Show of 2001 by "Time Out" New York.
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Lennie Bennett Lennie Bennett (26 September 1938 – 8 April 2009) was an English comedian and game show host.
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One More Time (book) One More Time is a memoir by comedian Carol Burnett. It was published by Random House in 1986 and became a "New York Times" non-fiction bestseller.
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Pat Condell Patrick Condell (born 23 November 1949) is a writer, polemicist, and former stand-up comedian. In his early career he wrote and performed in alternative comedy shows during the 1980s and 1990s in London, winning the Time Out Comedy Award in 1991. He was also formerly a regular panelist on BBC Radio 1's "Loose Talk" programme.
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More Fool Me (memoir) More Fool Me: A Memoir is the 2014 autobiography of Stephen Fry. The book is a continuation from the end of his 1997 publication, "Moab Is My Washpot: An Autobiography", and the 2010 "The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography". It contains an overview of these previous two volumes, and an account of Fry's later cocaine addiction, chiefly covering the years 1986–93. Other major topics include Fry's writing of "The Hippopotamus", his work on the TV series "A Bit of Fry & Laurie", "Jeeves and Wooster" and "Blackadder Goes Forth"; the radio series "Saturday Night Fry"; and the films "Peter's Friends" and "Stalag Luft". The book is Fry's tenth, and his third volume of autobiography.
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Morecambe and Wise Eric Morecambe (John Eric Bartholomew, 14 May 1926 – 28 May 1984) and Ernie Wise (Ernest Wiseman, 27 November 1925 – 21 March 1999), known as Morecambe and Wise (also Eric and Ernie), were an iconic British comic double act, working in variety, radio, film and most successfully in television. Their partnership lasted from 1941 until Morecambe's death in 1984. The show was a significant part of British popular culture, and they have been described as "the most illustrious, and the best-loved, double-act that Britain has ever produced".
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Jonathan Ross Jonathan Stephen Ross, OBE (born 17 November 1960) is an English television and radio presenter, film critic, actor and comedian best known for presenting the BBC One chat show "Friday Night with Jonathan Ross" during the 2000s. Ross also hosted his own radio show on BBC Radio 2, and acted as a film critic and presenter of the "Film" programme. After leaving the BBC, Ross then began hosting a new chat show on ITV, "The Jonathan Ross Show". Other regular roles have included being a regular panellist on the comedy sports quiz "They Think It's All Over" and being a regular presenter of the British Comedy Awards.
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Don Rickles Speaks! Don Rickles Speaks! is a comedy album released in 1969 by insult comic Don Rickles. It begins with an introduction by G. Bernard Owens who tells the audience that the recording they are about to hear reveals the serious side of Rickles, and his "thoughts of people, life, philosophy." Immediately after the introduction, we hear laughter, which completely contradicts what was heard previously. In the album, Rickles is interviewed by a panel of "eminent experts" who ask him about celebrities such as Dean Martin, Johnny Carson, Kirk Douglas, Robert Goulet, and Frank Sinatra, as well as music acts such as The Electric Prunes and Snooky Lanson.
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Take That Presents: The Circus Live Take That Present: The Circus Live was the seventh concert tour by British pop group, Take That. The tour promoted their fifth studio album, "The Circus". The tour began on 5 June 2009 at the Stadium of Light in Sunderland and finished on 5 July 2009 at Wembley Stadium in London. The Circus Live was their biggest tour to date. and was seen by 1,014,000 people, making a profit of £40,560,000. The tour became the fastest selling in UK history, with the 600,000 for all original eight dates selling out in five hours.
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I Am Comic I Am Comic is a 2010 documentary about the stand-up comedy world directed by Jordan Brady.
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Children in Need Rocks the Royal Albert Hall Children in Need Rocks the Royal Albert Hall was a charity music concert held at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England on 12 November 2009. The concert was organised by Take That singer-songwriter Gary Barlow as one of a series of events to raise money for Children in Need 2009. The huge success of the concert inspired Barlow to organise "Children in Need Rocks Manchester" at the Manchester Arena, Manchester in 2011.
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Oliver Wakefield Oliver Wakefield (born 29 May 1909, Mahlabitini, Zululand, South Africa; d. 30 June 1956, New York, USA), was a popular British actor and comedian active from the 1930s until his death in 1956. Often billed as "The Voice of Inexperience", Wakefield is best known for his idiosyncratic satirical monologues.
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Jack Diamond (comedian) Jack Diamond (Manchester, 12 August 1941) is a British comedian, known for his work in clubs and theatres in northwest England. He has been described as a "Blackpool favourite" by "The Stage" magazine and "a very funny man" by Bernard Manning.
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Raymone Bain Raymone K. Bain, Esquire, is a 2016 Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient, awarded to her by President Barack Obama. She is Chairman, The Raymone K. Bain Companies, LLC, in Washington,D.C. Ms. Bain has a distinguished career as one of the country’s most influential problem solvers, media strategists, policy analysts, international brand experts, producers, and spokespersons. She is a crisis management and damage control guru, grassroots campaign manager, and longtime public relations and public affairs executive in corporate, entertainment, music, politics, government and sports. Ms. Bain is often referred to as "spokesperson to the stars," or as the Washington Post referred to her: "Keeper of the Famed." She is best known for her personal representation of some of the world's most powerful and prolific individuals, including: "The Greatest," Muhammad Ali, "The King of Pop," Michael Jackson, "International Tennis Champion," Serena Williams; and "Pop Icon," Janet Jackson; 12-Time Grammy-winning singer,songwriter,producer, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, Boyz II Men, Award-winning comedian, Steve Harvey, and "The Original Kings of Comedy:" Bernie Mac, Cedric "The Entertainer," D.L. Hughley, and Steve Harvey; The Reverend Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner, and the African American Clergy Network (which represents over 1,000,000 parishioners); and D.C. "Mayor for Life" Marion Barry, Jr. Ms. Bain led the promotion of Mayor Barry's autobiography, "Mayor for Life: The Incredible Story of Marion Barry, Jr.," which made the New York Times Best Seller List, and was nominated for an NAACP Image Award.
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Max Miller (comedian) Thomas Henry Sargent (21 November 1894 – 7 May 1963), best known by his stage name Max Miller and also known as "The Cheeky Chappie", was a British comedian who was widely regarded as the greatest stand-up comedian of his generation. He made films, toured in revues and music hall, and sang and recorded songs, some of which he wrote. He was known for his flamboyant suits, his wicked charm, and his risqué jokes which often got him into trouble with the censors.