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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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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Penny Dwyer (category Alumni of the University of Cambridge)
September 2003) was a British comedy writer. She was a member of the Cambridge Footlights revue The Cellar Tapes which won the inaugural Perrier Comedy Awards...
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Pierre Novellie (category Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge)
attended Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. At Cambridge he was a member and then Vice President of the Cambridge Footlights Revue. He first began to consider...
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A Bit of Fry and Laurie style, as "m’colleague Stephen Fry". Cambridge Footlights Revue (1981) (BBC2) There's Nothing to Worry About! (1982) Alfresco...
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Year Title Role Notes 1982 Cambridge Footlights Revue Various roles TV special There's Nothing to Worry About! Mrs Wally 3 episodes 1983–1984 Alfresco...
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the Edinburgh Festival, when he was playing bass guitar for the Cambridge Footlights Revue and she was in a comedy troupe called the Millies. They have two...
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Oxford Revue has produced many prominent comedians, actors and satirists - as is the case with their Cambridge University counterparts, the Footlights. The...
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Russell Davies (category Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge)
literature when the opportunity arose to tour with the Cambridge Footlights revue. During his time in Cambridge, he contributed topical cartoons to the news pages...
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series of "wireless essays", supposedly by his alter ego, the elderly Cambridge philology professor Donald Trefusis, were featured in the BBC Radio 4...
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Stephen Fry (category Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge)
Cellar Tapes, the 1981 Cambridge Footlights Revue which was written by Fry, Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson, and Tony Slattery. The revue caught the attention...
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career. He appeared in several Cambridge Footlights Revues between 1977 and 1981, and co-directed the 1978 Footlights pantomime with Martin Bergman. From...
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Tim Brooke-Taylor (category Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge)
sketches while at the University of Cambridge and became president of the Footlights, touring internationally with its revue in 1964. Becoming more widely known...
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characters appeared before on There's Nothing to Worry About! and the Cambridge Footlights Revue. Fry appears twice as Doctor De Quincy, a character he also plays...
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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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Jimmy Edwards (category Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge)
Tony Hancock and Vera Lynn. He had previously performed in the Cambridge Footlights revue. He gained wider exposure as a radio performer in Take It From...
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Eleanor Bron (category Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge)
the Cambridge Footlights revue of 1959, titled The Last Laugh, in which Peter Cook also appeared. The addition of a female performer to the Footlights was...
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1955, he wrote and performed in Between the Lines at the 1955 Cambridge Footlights Revue production at the Scala Theatre in London. In 1956, he travelled...
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Sandi Toksvig (category Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge)
additional material for the Perrier award-winning Cambridge Footlights Revue. She was also a member of the Cambridge University Light Entertainment Society. She...
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Mark Watson (category Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge)
English at Queens' College, Cambridge, graduating with first class honours. At university he was a member of the Footlights and contemporary of Stefan...
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of Cambridge, where they were members of the famous Cambridge Footlights, co-writing and performing in the 50th annual Cambridge Footlights' Revue, which...
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Nick Mohammed (category Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge)
Revue twice but failed to get in and instead frequented the local comedy circuit. His interest in comedy prompted him to audition for the Footlights,...
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Nicholas Hytner (category Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge)
1977 Cambridge Footlights Revue. However, Hytner did not consider acting his strong point. "I think I was savvy enough when I went to Cambridge to discover...
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career in acting, Taylor applied to join Cambridge University, appearing in the 1955 Cambridge Footlights revue and becoming a scriptwriter after being...
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Circus. Several sketches came from the 1963 Cambridge Footlights Revue entitled Cambridge Circus (the revue was previously entitled A Clump of Plinths)...
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Beyond the Fringe (category Revues)
was to bring together the best parts of the revues staged by the Cambridge Footlights and The Oxford Revue at the Edinburgh Fringe in previous years. His...
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and Webb Look. The duo first met at the Footlights in 1993 and collaborated on the 1995 revue while at Cambridge. After graduating from university, the...
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Graeme Garden (category Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge)
served as its president in 1964, while also performing in the 1964 Footlights revue, Stuff What Dreams Are Made Of at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Garden...
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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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Humphrey Barclay (category Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge)
College, Cambridge, where his first foray into show business was via the Amateur Dramatic Society. He then appeared in Cambridge Footlights revues alongside...
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