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    The Cambridge Footlights, commonly referred to simply as Footlights, is a student sketch comedy troupe located in Cambridge, England. Footlights was founded...
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  • The Cambridge Footlights Revue is an annual revue by the Footlights Club, a group of comedy writer-performers at the University of Cambridge. Three of...
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  • list of former Footlights sketch comedy troupe members who have achieved notability after graduating from the University of Cambridge. The careers of...
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    Joe Thomas (actor) (category Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge)
    before reading History at Pembroke College, Cambridge. At Cambridge, Thomas was a member of the Footlights, alongside his future Inbetweeners co-star Simon...
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  • Ken Cheng (category Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge)
    Homerton College, Cambridge, but dropped out to become a professional poker player. He wrote and performed for the Cambridge Footlights, often known to...
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  • 15 November 1984. Lynn, Jonathan (2011). Comedy Rules: From the Cambridge Footlights to Yes Prime Minister. Faber and Faber. pp. 173–174. ISBN 978-0571277957...
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    Emma Thompson (category Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge)
    Law, Thompson was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she became a member of the Footlights troupe, and appeared in the comedy sketch series...
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    John Cleese (category Alumni of Downing College, Cambridge)
    comedian, screenwriter, producer, and presenter. Emerging from the Cambridge Footlights in the 1960s, he first achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival...
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    University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the world's...
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    he returned to Cambridge and joined the Cambridge Footlights, despite not being a student of Cambridge University. There he met Tom Basden, Stefan Golaszewski...
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    Nick Mohammed (category Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge)
    original on 3 October 2015. Retrieved 6 March 2012. "Cambridge Footlights Alumni 2000–". Footlights Official Website. Archived from the original on 11 August...
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    by the University of Cambridge, and typically has 3 shows a week during term time. It hosts the Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club which has...
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    Emma Sidi (category Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge)
    Babatunde Aléshé, Jack Dee and Rosie Jones. Sidi was a member of the Cambridge Footlights. She is married to Al Roberts, also her on-screen husband in TV series...
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    Stephen Fry (category Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge)
    preparatory school in North Yorkshire, before taking his place. At Cambridge, he joined the Footlights, appeared on the University Challenge TV quiz, and read English...
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  • the Cambridge Footlights. The Union also organises talks by visiting speakers and a wide array of events throughout the academic year. The Cambridge Union...
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  • Morwenna Banks (category Alumni of Robinson College, Cambridge)
    Truro High School for Girls and Robinson College, Cambridge, and was a member of the Cambridge Footlights from 1981 to 1983. She also acted with the Marlowe...
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  • Ania Magliano (category Alumni of the University of Cambridge)
    as a doctor. Magliano attended the University of Cambridge and was a member of the Cambridge Footlights. While at the university, she founded Stockings...
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    Nurse, Red Dwarf, and Chelmsford 123, before starring alongside his Cambridge Footlights colleague Stephen Fry in the short-run series Anything More Would...
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    Nicola Walker (category Alumni of New Hall, Cambridge)
    New Hall, Cambridge, becoming the first member of her family to go to university. She started her acting career with the Cambridge Footlights. Her contemporaries...
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    Sophie Winkleman (category Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge)
    School for Girls and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where she studied English literature. She joined the Cambridge Footlights and wrote and performed in the comic...
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    Robert Thorogood (category Alumni of Downing College, Cambridge)
    read History at Downing College, Cambridge, where he toured with the university's student comedy troupe Footlights in 1993 and was elected president...
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    Ali Smith (category Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge)
    Daughters of England (1989-1990), unpublished, Cambridge Footlights Amazons (1990), Cambridge Footlights Comic (1990), unpublished, produced at the Edinburgh...
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    Clive Anderson (category Alumni of Selwyn College, Cambridge)
    Anderson attended Selwyn College, Cambridge, where, from 1974 to 1975, he was President of the Cambridge Footlights. He was called to the bar at the Middle...
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  • Jimmy Mulville (category Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge)
    actor and writer for the Cambridge Footlights, whilst reading French and Classics at Jesus College, Cambridge. At Cambridge, Mulville met Rory McGrath...
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    Matthew Holness (category Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge)
    Canterbury and went on to read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. As a member of the Cambridge Footlights, he appeared in a number of shows at the Edinburgh...
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    v t e Edinburgh Comedy Award winners Best Comedy Show 1981: Cambridge Footlights (Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Tony Slattery, Emma Thompson, Penny Dwyer and...
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    Queen's College, Taunton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was President of the Cambridge Footlights. Upon graduating, he wrote for various TV shows...
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  • British sketch comedy television series written by and starring former Cambridge Footlights members Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, broadcast on both BBC1 and BBC2...
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  • Her Campus. Retrieved 11 February 2022. "Durham Revue team up with Cambridge Footlights for 'ComedyFest!". Durham University. 10 February 2022. Retrieved...
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    Steve Punt (category Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge)
    Whitgift School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he read English. While at Cambridge, he joined Footlights, where he first met comedy partner Hugh...
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