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Review: Spamalot, Liverpool Empire
It wasn’t the first time in recent memory Spamalot had visited Liverpool – and it showed. Boasting (by chance rather than design) the same stars as its first visit eighteen months ago, it was hopeful...
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Is Liverpool really the worst place to gig?
Everybody's been talking about the results of a recent poll among comedians that put Liverpool down as the toughest place to gig. Some 18% of the professionals questioned by Dave TV said this city...
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Review: Spamalot, Liverpool Empire
The new touring production of Spamalot opened at the Liverpool Empire – and received a well-deserved standing ovation for its troubles. The charm of Spamalot is pretty deceptive. The Eric Idle-approved...
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An Interview WIth Spamalot Actor Marcus Brigstocke
"And Anne Robinson is vile! People always ask me if she's as bad a she is on TV and she's worse! VILE!" Marcus Brigstocke doesn't mince words, but at least, admirably, he'll stand by them... The Weakest Link presenter - a former colleague of his - is getting it in the neck as an afterthought in the conclusion of an interesting and colourful chat. He yells it after me, in fact, after we parted and I was on the way out the door. We had got ourselves on the subject of one of Brigstocke's more (subjectively) controversial...
