Having neglected my own blog for a long time, here's a digest of all the activity which has ensured my fourth book, SOUPY TWISTS: The official story of the sophisticated silliness of Fry & Laurie is going to be a reality next year! Now read on, dot dot dot... OH GIVE THE MAN A BLOODY…
SOUPY TWISTS! First Bit
Dear Madam, or Sir – This is to introduce, in a needlessly twee way, the officially authorised book SOUPY TWISTS – the fourth work of comedy history by Jem Roberts, and the first ever print celebration of the tickling, maddening, frothing and frankly filthy comedy of STEPHEN FRY & HUGH LAURIE, to officially mark the forthcoming…
SPREADING 72 BAPS FOR VICTORIA
AN AUDIENCE WITHOUT VICTORIA WOOD An evening of very funny songs and sketches, in aid of Victoria's chosen charities. Widcombe Social Club, Bath Saturday 28th May, 8pm "If there's a noisy party going on in the block, I don't complain, I just zip up me cocktail slacks & get over there & get frigging.…
PETER RICHARDSON: FULL STORY & PICS!
And so, the most stressful time of the year draws to a close yet again – The Bath Comedy Festival 2016 is, for me at least, bar a silly afternoon of Unrehearsed Monty Python & The Holy Grail, drawing to a close. Between the shows I have run, the work I have had to do,…
THE BATH PLUG AWARD
Happy springtime! That most insanely stressful time of my year, thanks to the Bath Comedy Festival, now entering its... what? 8th year you say? That sounds about right, and I've put together shows for all of them. In fact, thanks to working on my first book at the time, I'd semi-retired from performing when the…
ISIRTA: AGAIN! #2
Well, what a treat, above all. That’s the main thing to take away from Offstage Theatre’s live tribute to the wonders of I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again – how lucky we all were that they put that show together, and those of us who were born long after the last proper episode of ISIRTA…
ISIRTA: AGAIN! #1
This was something I wasn't going to write about until after I had actually seen the show, but that does seem slightly stupid if there's the slightest chance this can encourage more folk to buy tickets and join in the fun... But, back in my first book, THE CLUE BIBLE, in which I managed to…
THE FROOD: FIT THE FINAL?
This month The Frood is excitingly relaunched in paperback form – which, after all, was always the natural format for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, from its first release. This is a completely updated, fine-tuned edition, which will hopefully spread Douglas Adams' incredible, improbable, never-holistically-told-before story further than ever, and see this Hitchhiker celebration…
Magazine Scraps #3 – #GE2015: THE VIDEOGAME.
I'm not sure what it is about early May and these Magazine-themed entries (just over a year since Magazine Scraps #2), but in trying to find an analogy to suit my dismay at recent events in the UK, gaming seemed to provide the most holistically pleasing answer. This reminded me that, as a writer, my roots…
BATH COMEDY FESTIVAL 2015: The Party’s Over
Waking up on Bank Holiday Monday after a week of frenetic activity for the Bath Comedy Festival has felt a little like being Wile E. Coyote several yards over a cliff edge, with no ground beneath. Back to the workaday author's world, of staring at email Sent boxes lighting candles and praying to the God…
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