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| Bill's episode of "Raiders of the Lost Archive" coming up at last |
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 "Raiders of the Lost Archive" episodes 2 & 3 are finally being screened on ITV on Tues, July 21st & 28th. The first episode should air at 22:30; check your local listings to confirm times for both episodes. Bill Oddie appears in the second edition, which includes clips from "BBC3" and "Engelbert and the Young Generation". (Thanks to Sosia & Andrew Pixley for this info).
Also of note, Goodies repeats are currently running on The Comedy Channel in Australia and Comedy Central New Zealand
For a list of other upcoming TV & radio shows of interest to Goodies fans use the "click here for more" link below.
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Posted by lisa at 14/07/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| Welcome to our new members and visitors! |
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 Welcome to those of you who are new to the site! Feel free to look around - some features you may enjoy include our news section, fan forums, back issues of our monthly newsletter (The Clarion & Globe), illustrated episode guide (in the Articles & Guides section), "just for fun" poll, etc.
We hope you'll want to join in the fun - membership to the club (including an email subscription to our newsletter) is free! Full details about joining can be found in our FAQ.
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Posted by lisa at 11/07/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| another Sydney Morning Herald article about World's Funniest Island Festival |
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 Another small article from today's Sydney Morning Herald related to the World's Funniest Island Festival is at http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/arts/theyre-oldies-but-goodies/2009/07/09/1246732417055.html (cut & paste below). Does anyone have the print version of the newspaper? I'd love to hear if there are any interesting photos accompanying the article.
They're oldies but Goodies
Sydney Morning Herald
July 10, 2009
The last time British comedy trio the Goodies played in Australia, in 2005, they played to 15,000 people in Sydney alone. The tour of their first live stage show was only supposed to run to a handful of gigs but no one anticipated the nostalgic pull of the sitcom-sketch show. "When we got talked into doing the live show by [promoter] John Pinder, we figured one week! We ended up doing 60 shows. We will never forgive him for making us work so hard," Tim Brooke-Taylor remembers. This time around, Bill Oddie will join Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden (via satellite) for four performances in the Big Top, an hour of "reminiscences and funny bits" hosted by the Chaser's Andrew Hansen, a "total Goodies nut".
The three British comedians met at Cambridge University where they performed in the Footlights Club. They went on to perform in a number of radio and TV comedy shows before creating The Goodies in 1970, a mix of slapstick, surreal gags, situation comedy and camera tricks. The series ran to 78 episodes and has been aired continuously in Australia for almost 40 years. "They're all great raconteurs. Goodies nuts will just want to be in the same room as them - they're like gurus," John Pinder says.
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Posted by lisa at 10/07/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| Tim & Graeme to appear at Sydney's World's Funniest Island Festival in Oct |
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More details at last about Tim & Graeme's return to Australia, as reported in today's Sydney Morning Herald (at http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/arts/comedy-castaways/2009/07/09/1246732417051.html):
Comedy castaways
July 10, 2009
Cockatoo Island is about to host a weekend of wall-to-wall laughs, writes Elissa Blake.
An ambitious new comedy festival is aiming to turn Cockatoo Island into an annual laugh extravaganza. It plans to feature dozens of local and international acts ranging from burlesque, street theatre and student reviews to renowned comics, a controversial musical and even a clever remake of Mad Max with overdubs.
"This is a festival for a city with attention deficit disorder," cackles John Pinder, director of World's Funniest Island, the "world's first all-day, all-evening comedy festival", which takes over the Sydney Harbour venue on October 17-18.
"We know Sydney is a city that wants things to happen right now and be over by Monday morning. So this will be like a rock festival, only full of hilarious comedy."
World's Funniest Island will feature more than 200 international and local comedians performing in 18 venues over two days. One of the headline acts will be legendary British comedian, actor and author Alexei Sayle, best known as the students' landlord in The Young Ones, for the spoken word hit 'Ullo John! Got A New Motor? and a minor yet memorable role in Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade.
"Alexei Sayle is one of a pantheon of great British comedians," Pinder says. "They had a little show in a London strip club and Alexei would host the show saying, 'Hello I'm an alternative comedian and I'm non-racist, non-sexist and not f---ing funny!' Then he'd have a string of jokes that are totally unprintable," Pinder says.
Sayle will perform two shows at the World's Funniest Island. One is based on excerpts from a selection of the comic novels he's written over the past decade. The other will be an "Evening With Alexei Sayle", with anecdotes from his time with The Young Ones and the Comic Strip Club. "He's older and balder now but still incredibly funny," Pinder says.
Some of the other early acts announced include British comedy legends The Goodies' Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden in a show hosted by The Chaser's Andrew Hansen (see box), stand-up comics Wil Anderson and Fiona O'Loughlin and radio stars Merrick and Rosso.
The controversial new comic musical Beaconsfield: The Musical, a hit of the Melbourne Comedy Festival, is also part of the line-up. Other musical acts include the
a capella choir Spooky Men's Chorale and Die Roten Punkte, an outrageous - allegedly German - rock act. There will also be a whole venue dedicated to all-day student revue-style comedy sponsored by the University of Sydney.
At the end of each night, Mad Max The Remix, a crazy one-hour comic cut-up of all three Mad Max films by performer Eddie Sharp, will screen with overdubs by a team of live actors. The story follows Max, the greatest dancer of all time, on his quest to join Miss Tina's prestigious Bartertown Dance academy.
More headline acts will be announced on July 14 when the website goes live (worldsfunniest island.com) with more to be announced in the coming weeks.
Cockatoo Island, which has already played host to the Biennale of Sydney and the Nick Cave-curated music festival, All Tomorrow's Parties, will be crawling with street performers, musicians and stand-up comics during the two-day festival. There will be more than 60 market stalls, 20 food outlets and 15 bars. The festival is an all-ages event with children under five allowed in free with an adult, there will be over-18 wristbands to purchase alcohol and some shows will be adults only.
Ferries will run in three shifts in the morning and late at night with punters being asked to nominate their preferred departure time (from Circular Quay or King Street Wharf) at the time of ticket purchase.
"If you come early there will be a breakfast gala showcasing a potpourri of performers that you can choose to see again later in the day," Pinder says. "Then there will be a big bang of headline acts around midday and peak shows mid-evening. Everyone will be out by 1am at the latest and they can come back the next day and do it all over again."
A group claiming to be not a comedy act is riotous Die Roten Punkte. Brother and sister Otto and Astrid have been stunning audiences throughout the world with their high-energy Ramones-meets-the Cure tomfoolery. "Our manager keeps booking us into comedy festivals but ve are real rock and roll," Otto insists in his flamboyantly German-accented English. "Sometimes ze people are laughing but ve don't mind. Ve are playing at ze end of both nights unt ve just vant people to rock out, ja!"
WORLD'S FUNNIEST ISLAND
October 17-18, 10am-midnight, Cockatoo Island, one-day pass $120, two-day pass $210. One ticket offers access to all shows on that day. Tickets on sale July 20.
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Posted by lisa at 10/07/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailout - UK Tour Dates 2009 |
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Here's a mailing from the official ISIHAC mailing list about the upcoming tour.
Please note that some of the shows are starting to sell out. If a show is sold out online it may be worthwhile calling the box office, as they sometimes have a separate allocation of tickets.
Dear I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailing List Member,
I hope you have been enjoying the new series of the programme. I've been inundated with emails in praise of Jack Dee's recent chairmanship, which is just as well, as Jack will be hosting our third UK Tour of the show, which starts with three dates in July, and continues in late September and early October. Apologies to those of you in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - we were unlucky with venues but will try for some further dates in early 2010. In the meantime, this is the full schedule:
JULY
Wed 22 - ORCHARD THEATRE, DARTFORD (01322 220 000 or www.orchardtheatre.co.uk)
Thurs 23 - NEW VICTORIA THEATRE, WOKING (0844 871 7627 or www.ambassadortickets.com/New-Victoria-Theatre)
Sat 25 - SANDS THEATRE CARLISLE (01228 625 222 or www.thesandscentre.co.uk)
SEPTEMBER
Fri 18 - MANCHESTER OPERA HOUSE (0844 847 2295 or www.ticketmaster.co.uk/venue/189249)
Sun 20 - BRISTOL HIPPODROME (0844 847 2325 or www.ticketmaster.co.uk/venue/189858)
Mon 21 - PORTSMOUTH GUILDHALL (023 9282 4355 or www.portsmouthguildhall.co.uk)
Tues 22 - CAMBRIDGE CORN EXCHANGE (01223 357 851 or www.cornex.co.uk)
Wed 23 - ROYAL CONCERT HALL, NOTTINGHAM (0115 989 5555 or www.royalcentre-nottingham.co.uk)
Fri 25 - ST GEORGES CONCERT HALL, BRADFORD (01274 432000 or www.bradford-theatres.co.uk)
Sat 26 - CENTAUR CHELTENHAM (01242 572573 or https://tickets.everymantheatre.org.uk - booking via the Everyman Theatre Box Office)
Sun 27 - NEW WIMBLEDON THEATRE (0844 871 7627 or www.ambassadortickets.com/New-Wimbledon-Theatre)
Mon 28 - BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY HALL (0121 780 3333 or www.thsh.co.uk)
Tues 29 - SOUTHPORT THEATRE (0844 847 2380 or www.ticketmaster.co.uk/venue/189855)
Wed 30 - YORK GRAND OPERA HOUSE (0844 847 2322 or www.ticketmaster.co.uk/venue/189384)
OCTOBER
Sat 3 - DERNGATE, NORTHAMPTON (01604 624811 or www.royalandderngate.co.uk)
Sun 4 - BASINGSTOKE ANVIL (01256 844244 or www.anvilarts.org.uk)
Mon 5 - PRINCESS THEATRE, TORQUAY (0844 847 2315 or www.ticketmaster.co.uk/venue/189861)
Tues 6 - EASTBOURNE CONGRESS THEATRE (01323 412000 or www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk)
Wed 7 - DE MONTFORD HALL LEICESTER (0116 233 3111 or www.demontforthall.co.uk)
Not all the September/October venues may have put their tickets on sale yet, but all should have within a few days. Like previous touring shows, this show will include some of the most popular rounds played on the programme over the years - there should be be some real highlights. And once more, Tim, Barry and Graeme will be joined by Jeremy Hardy. As usual it's advisable to book early as the shows tend to sell out quite quickly. Each show starts at 7.30pm and should be finished by around 10pm.
That's about the size of it. We'd like to thank you all for your continued support, and look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at these shows.
With best wishes
Jon Naismith
Producer, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
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