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The Latest Breaking News from Bob Monkhouse

Last Of The Summer Wine writer says sitcom would not be made today

Sir Roy Clarke, 96, received the Honour of Knighthood during an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle on Tuesday

Evening Standard

Offensive gags from comedian’s joke book force BBC show to scrap segment

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The Independent UK

The Repair Shop declined to fix Bob Monkhouse’s joke book as contents unsuitable

The book was returned to the family as it contained text ‘not appropriate’ for the programme.

Evening Standard

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Bob Monkhouse Repair Shop episode pulled over ‘sexist’ concerns

Notebooks containing a detailed record of the late entertainer’s decades-long career were due to feature in a tribute instalment

Evening Standard

The Repair Shop scraps Bob Monkhouse notebook segment over ‘inappropriate’ jokes

Comedian’s handwritten quips, dating back to the 1960s, were described as ‘of their time’

The Independent UK

Tuesday briefing: With the horror of conflict throughout the globe, how likely is world war three?

In today’s newsletter: Our diplomatic editor on how global instability feeds into conflict in so many parts of the world, and whether the threshold for a major global war has been met

The Guardian - UK

Alan Davies: ‘I get called Jonathan Creek all the time – nowadays people think I’m James May’

The British comedian and actor on encouraging hecklers, why Will Ferrell deserves an Oscar and his love for Kylie Minogue

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The Last Laugh at the Noel Coward Theatre review: gags, gurning, and a supremely lazy script

2/5 Impressive impersonations of Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe and Bob Monkhouse are undercut by cheap lines

Evening Standard

The Last Laugh review – Eric Morecambe, Tommy Cooper and Bob Monkhouse’s antic triple act

Bob Golding, Simon Cartwright and Damian Williams, who have played the comedy giants before, summon them like spirits to the stage in this tribute

The Guardian - UK

Edinburgh festival 2024: 20 theatre shows making a scene this summer

With subjects ranging from the deadly serious to the downright silly, this year’s shows include plays about addiction, politics, funk and Come Dine With Me

The Guardian - UK

Celebrities reveal their political allegiances, 1991

Ben Elton and Lenny Henry were backing Neil Kinnock; Bob Monkhouse and Steve Davis supported John Major

The Guardian - UK

Lost Doctor Who episodes found – but owner is reluctant to hand them to BBC

As sci-fi show’s 60th anniversary nears, a collector pleads for BBC to offer amnesty to those with recordings discarded by corporation

The Guardian - UK

Historic Swansea pub where theatre stars stayed and football fans drank is set to become flats

It once hosted star names like Bob Monkhouse, Windsor Davies and Joe Pasquale

Wales Online

Paul Stewart Laing obituary

Television producer and director behind such popular 1970s shows as Celebrity Squares and New Faces

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Jon Culshaw fulfills dream of taking Les Dawson tribute show on the road

The star of TV’s Dead Ringers is paying tribute to Blankety Blank host Les with a show that premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe and ends in Lancashire near the home of the comedy legend

The Independent UK

Don’t Look Up: Why Adam McKay’s divisive doomsday satire should win the Oscar for Best Picture

Critics and audiences were split over the A-lister-packed disaster movie, but Kevin E G Perry argues it deserves to take home the Academy’s biggest prize for finding cathartic laughter in the dark

The Independent UK

Don’t Look Up: Why Adam McKay’s divisive doomsday satire should win the Oscar for Best Picture

Critics and audiences were split over the A-lister-packed disaster movie, but Kevin E G Perry argues it deserves to take home the Academy’s biggest prize for finding cathartic laughter in the dark

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