John Bassett (born 1934) is the person credited with putting together the talent for the Edinburgh International Festival revue, "Beyond the Fringe", a British comedy stage revue written and performed by Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett, and Jonathan Miller, first started in which year?
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Johnny Bassett John Bassett (born 1934) is the person credited with putting together the talent for the Edinburgh International Festival revue, "Beyond the Fringe", in 1960.
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Beyond the Fringe Beyond the Fringe was a British comedy stage revue written and performed by Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett, and Jonathan Miller. It played in London's West End and then in America, both on tour and on New York's Broadway in the early 1960s. Hugely successful, it is widely regarded as seminal to the rise of satirical comedy in 1960s Britain.
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The Catherine Tate Show The Catherine Tate Show is a British television sketch comedy written by Catherine Tate and Aschlin Ditta. Tate also stars in all but one of the show's sketches, which feature a wide range of characters. "The Catherine Tate Show" airs on BBC Two and is shown worldwide through the BBC. Collectively, the show has been nominated for six BAFTA Awards, two British Comedy Awards and an Emmy Award, and it has won two Royal Television Society Awards, two British Comedy Awards and a National Television Award since its debut in 2004.
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Free Fringe The Free Fringe (also known as PBH's Free Fringe, after its founder, Peter Buckley Hill) is an organisation that promotes free shows during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the world's largest arts festival, every August.
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Fry and Laurie Fry and Laurie are an English comedy double act, mostly active in the 1980s and 1990s. The duo consisted of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, who met in 1980 through mutual friend Emma Thompson whilst all three attended the University of Cambridge. They initially gained prominence in a television sketch comedy, "A Bit of Fry & Laurie" (1987, 1989–1995), and have collaborated on numerous other projects including, most notably, the television series "Jeeves and Wooster" (1990–1993) in which they portrayed P. G. Wodehouse's literary characters Jeeves (Fry) and Wooster (Laurie).
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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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Group Theatre (London) The Group Theatre (London) was an experimental theatre company founded in 1932 by Rupert Doone and Robert Medley. It evolved from a play-reading group in Cambridge that Doone had been involved with during his years studying with the Festival Theatre there. The Group Theatre was active from 1932 to 1939 and reformed as The Group Theatre Ltd. in the early 1950s.
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John Dowie (humourist) John Dowie (born 1950 in Birmingham) is a British comedian, musician and writer. He began performing stand-up comedy in 1969.
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Jamie Delano Jamie Delano (born 1954 in Northampton ) is a British comics writer. He was part of the first post-Alan Moore "British Invasion" of writers which started to feature in American comics in the 1980s. Best known as the first writer of the comic book series "Hellblazer", featuring John Constantine.
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Comedy Playhouse (series 1) The first series of Comedy Playhouse, that continued to be a long-running BBC series, broadcast from 15 December 1961 to 16 February 1962. All the episodes were written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
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Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year The Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year is held during the Leicester Comedy Festival every February. All the finalists picked are nominated by the UK's top comedy clubs and must meet certain criteria. The competition is sponsored by a local newspaper, the Leicester Mercury, and Equity, the actors union.
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This Year of Grace This Year of Grace is a revue with a book, music, and lyrics by Noël Coward.
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Tim Vine Timothy Mark "Tim" Vine (born 4 March 1967) is an English writer, actor, comedian and presenter, known for his quick-fire puns and his role on the BBC series "Not Going Out" until his departure in 2012. He has released a number of DVDs of his stand-up comedy and has written several joke books. In 2010 and 2014, Vine won the award for best joke at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. His winning jokes were: "I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again" and “I decided to sell my Hoover ... well it was just collecting dust.” He was the runner up in 2011, 2012 and 2013.
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Dunedin Fringe Festival The Dunedin Fringe Festival, or Dunedin Fringe, is an 11-day fringe theatre festival held each March in Dunedin, New Zealand. The first Dunedin Fringe was in the year 2000.
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Barrie Rutter Barrie Thomas Rutter OBE (born 12 December 1946) is an English actor and the founder and Artistic Director of the Northern Broadsides theatre company based in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England.
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Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2001 The 2001 Edinburgh Festival Fringe was the 54th Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The Fringe ran from 5–27 August 2001 and presented 1462 shows over 176 venues.
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Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2003 The 2003 Edinburgh Festival Fringe was the 56th Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The Fringe ran from 3–25 August 2003 and presented 1541 shows over 207 venues. 2003 was the first year that over one million tickets were sold at the Fringe.
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David Allen (playwright) David Allen (born 4 January 1936, Birmingham, England) is a British playwright. He is notable for his play "Cheapside", which has been shown at the Warehouse Theatre (in Croydon, South London) and the White Barn Theatre.
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Fringe Review FringeReview is a British online and paper-based theatre reviews publication. It was founded by writer Paul Levy in 2006 and has grown to over 130,000 online readers in 2013. This web-based publication reviews in London, Brighton, Edinburgh, Adelaide, Prague and Amsterdam, as well as other parts of the UK covering fringe theatre. Reviewers are theatre practitioners and experts. In 2010, FringeReview reviewed over 700 theatre productions in the UK. The paper versions of FringeReview takes the form of digests although the publication has attempted to pioneer high-quality theatre reviewing, not as "web content" but as a sustainable virtual publication in its own right. FringeReview's vetted reviews process was recently quoted in "The Scotsman", and in "The Guardian" theatre blog. FringeReview is a founder member of the Festival Media Network, a trade organisation aimed at upholding online review and media standards. FringeReview is listed as a media partner of Amsterdam Fringe, and is also featured for its prestigious awards on the Edinburgh Fringe web site. Reviewers for FringeReview include the best-selling author Charles Palliser, actor and director, Richard Franklin, and theatre director, Benet Caty.
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List of Horne &amp; Corden episodes "Horne & Corden" is a British sketch show written by, and starring, Mathew Horne and James Corden (Gavin and Stacey) and aired on BBC television. The first episode was broadcast on 10 March 2009 on BBC Three. It is presented by Mathew Horne and James Corden in front of a live audience, in a style reminiscent of "Morecambe and Wise", featuring pre-recorded sketches (often on location) and vignettes filmed in a studio with an audience. The first episode even had a song and dance routine as the final piece of the episode, still in keeping with a "Morecambe and Wise" tradition of variety/comedy show. The first episode attracted the highest ratings for a comedy show debut on BBC Three.
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Writer's Inc Writer's Inc was a sketch comedy troupe who won the 1982 Edinburgh Comedy Award, then known as the Perrier Award for sponsorship reasons. The troupe consisted of Gary Adams, Steve Brown, Vicki Pile, Trevor McCallum, Helen Murry, Jamie Rix, and Nick Wilton, with additional material by Kim Fuller.
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Pete and Dud: Come Again Pete and Dud: Come Again is a stage play about British "Beyond the Fringe" comedians Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, which was written by Chris Bartlett and Nick Awde. The comedy-drama had a sellout run at the Assembly Rooms as part of the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it was shortlisted for a Fringe First Award by The Scotsman, before moving to London's West End at The Venue in March 2006; this version starred Kevin Bishop as Moore, Tom Goodman-Hill as Cook, Colin Hoult as Jonathan Miller and Fergus Craig as Alan Bennett. It was published in playtext form by Methuen.