Latest news with #Allo'Allo!
Pembrokeshire Herald
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Pembrokeshire Herald
‘Allo ‘Allo! comes to the Torch Theatre this June
New Xenon Theatre Company launches with riotous stage adaptation of TV classic FANS of the beloved British sitcom 'Allo 'Allo! are in for a treat this June, as the Torch Theatre hosts a live stage adaptation of the wartime comedy classic. Presented by New Xenon Theatre Company—a newly formed group created by members of the much-loved Xenon Liberal Arts—the show brings all the farcical charm of the original series to life. Expect slapstick humour, larger-than-life characters, and chaotic plot twists as café owner René Artois juggles Nazis, the Resistance, secret British airmen, and an increasingly complicated love life, all within his humble café in occupied France. The plot centres on René and his long-suffering (and tone-deaf) wife Edith, who are hiding a priceless stolen painting in a sausage in their cellar—alongside two downed RAF airmen awaiting rescue. Add to that a malfunctioning wireless disguised as a cockatoo, a series of inept disguises, and a visit from a Führer impersonator, and the stage is set for an evening of classic comedic mayhem. Director Allison Butler, who also plays Michelle of the Resistance, said: 'We're thrilled to bring this hilarious show to the Torch as our maiden production for New Xenon Theatre Company. The cast members really are doing a wonderful job of bringing all the characters to life, and we're looking forward to welcoming you to Café René!' Jordan Dickin, who takes on the role of Officer Crabtree, added: 'Rehearsals have been an absolute blast, and it's a joy to embody such an iconic character. Listen very carefully, I will say this only once… make it a Good Moaning and get your tickets before they vanish like phantoms into the night!' Performances of 'Allo 'Allo! will take place at the Torch Theatre on: Thursday 19 June at 7:30pm Friday 20 June at 7:30pm Saturday 21 June at 2:30pm and 7:30pm Tickets are £18, with £16 concessions available for the Thursday performance only. For bookings, visit or call the Box Office on (01646) 695267.
Metro
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
Barton embarrasses himself again by reviving French accent in bizarre interview
Joey Barton once again had fans reaching for the mute button after deciding to revive his bizarre French accent on a visit to former club Marseille at the weekend. The 42-year-old has been out of a job since being sacked as manager of Bristol Rovers in 2023, but was in the headlines in March after being found guilty of assaulting his wife at their family home. Barton has also been involved in a bitter dispute with former Lioness Eni Aluko, who won the first stage of a High Court libel claim against the ex-Manchester City midfielder after he claimed her father was financially corrupt and that her private education made her a 'hypocrite'. However, Barton was invited to take part in a Marseille legends match at the Stade Velodrome on Friday night to celebrate the club's 125th anniversary. And while Robert Pires, Franck Ribery, Samir Nasri and Didier Drogba were involved in the star-studded event, Barton has gone viral for all the wrong reasons with his toe-curling interview before kick-off. After joining Marseille back in 2012, Barton announced his arrival to the French media by speaking with an accent that appeared straight out of BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!. Though Barton was widely ridiculed for the strange press conference at the time, the former England international decided to resurrect the accent again on Friday when asked about his infamous run-in with Zlatan Ibrahimovic. 'It was a big game, Le Classique, and Ibrahimovic was very physical with Nicolas Nkoulou and the coach said to me that I must defend him,' Barton explained. 'He fouled, he fouled and the referee… [gestures blowing a whistle]. 'After after, he speak very badly to me, Zlatan, he speak very bad. 'And it was on the camera so everywhere I go, the Marseille fans say, 'Hey, Barton!'. They don't remember the football, but only the nose.' Unsurprisingly, clips of Barton's interview have received a mixed reception on social media, with many fans calling out the former Newcastle, QPR and Burnley man over his 'embarrassing' behaviour. 'Absolutely embarrassing, that,' @ToonMouthTyne wrote on X. 'Joey's been watching 'Allo 'Allo! all week,' @paulfinlay23903 responded. Another fan, @TSnozzle, said: 'Sounded like me in GCSE French.' Several other users on X questioned why Barton had been asked to feature in the legends match in the first place given he only spent one, largely uneventful, season with Marseille. 'He spent one season on loan haha what the f*** is this,' @BillyRayMoore said. 'Why the hell is he playing in a legends game for Marseille. Is he a Marseille legend?' fodenthegoat_47 wrote. 'The term 'legend' gets thrown about far too often. It has lost all meaning,' @fodenthegoat_47 replied. Last year, Barton sensationally threw his hat in the ring to manage Marseille, before Jean-Louis Gasset was eventually chosen to replace Gennaro Gattuso. 'I am ready,' Barton responded to reports of Gattuso being under pressure at the time. Roberto De Zerbi replaced Gasset as Marseille's head coach ahead of the 2024/25 season and the Italian has enjoyed an impressive debut season in France, with the side sitting second heading into their two remaining matches in Ligue 1. For more stories like this, check our sport page. Follow Metro Sport for the latest news on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. MORE: Arsenal or PSG? Didier Drogba asked to pick Champions League favourite
Telegraph
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Ooh, matron! Carry On cut as Britain's censors crack down on classic comedy
Sarah Cronin-Stanley, who runs a TV channel with her father, Noel, from an office in their Hertfordshire garden, has an important decision to make. Talking Pictures TV, which specialises in 'golden oldies' films and TV series, is preparing to air an episode of 1970s drama A Family at War for the first time in years. The last time she did so, Cronin-Stanley was hauled in front of regulator Ofcom over her refusal to censor the racist insult 'w-g'. Now, she must decide whether to broadcast the word again with a warning to viewers in advance – or cut it out completely. It is a familiar challenge not just for Talking Pictures TV, which is approaching its 10th anniversary, but also for a handful of other channels that have carved out a niche among audiences looking for a nostalgic trip into the annals of entertainment history. There is no doubt that some language and themes from those days are no longer acceptable in the modern era. But critics say Ofcom's 'suffocating' guidelines raise the risk that classic hits will gradually be whittled down and ultimately lost. 'I think people have a thicker skin than maybe Ofcom gives them credit for,' says Jonathan Moore, who runs Rewind TV. 'It's the nanny state, isn't it, really? It's one rule to try and dictate taste for everyone rather than allowing the audience to make their own choices.' While nostalgia TV remains a relatively small niche in the broadcasting landscape, the genre has built up a loyal following through its re-runs of classics such as Are You Being Served?, 'Allo 'Allo! and the Carry On series. Figures from official ratings agency Barb show Talking Pictures TV, which claims to be the biggest independent channel in the country, had an audience of around 3.3m in March. Rewind TV attracted 1.4m viewers, while That's TV pulled in 3.7m. 'Good, clean fun' Despite their popularity, these channels have often found themselves at loggerheads with Ofcom. While the regulator does not have a blacklist of banned words and phrases, it issues guidelines on offensive material based on a public survey carried out every five years. Ofcom uses these findings to assign language to one of three categories: mild, moderate and strong. Words that fall into the first category are considered unlikely to trouble audiences, while moderate language has a greater potential for offence. Words ranked 'strong' are perceived to be highly offensive and require a 'clear and strong contextual justification for broadcast'. Rather than acting as an outright censor, Ofcom gives guidance on how broadcasters should approach language then leaves them to make the decisions. If audiences are unhappy, they are entitled to complain to the regulator, as on occasion they have. For some TV bosses, however, the rules are overly prescriptive. Critics argue that the ever-evolving nature of language and social norms means channels are being held to an arbitrary and constantly shifting set of standards. Ofcom's latest guidance, published in 2021, ranks 'whore' as moderate language, whereas the Americanised equivalent 'ho' is deemed mild. Following 2016's survey, 'bloody' was considered mild language. As of 2021, however, it has been upgraded to moderate. Other words such as 'queer' split opinions among survey respondents. It has been used in the past in a derogatory way but has now been adopted in the acronym LGBTQ+. 'T--ser', 'slut' and 't--t' are among the words that have been cleaved out of classics including Carry On Laughing (a TV compilation of clips from the film series), Please Sir!, On The Buses and Whose Line is it Anyway?. 'It's a little bit arbitrary, to be perfectly honest,' says Moore. 'Offence is partly in the eye of the beholder, isn't it? One person's offensive word might be another person's completely acceptable word.' Broadcasting bosses agree that some topics, such as outright racism or homophobia, are beyond the pale. 'There is some stuff that's just not funny any more,' says Cronin-Stanley. 'If you're going to watch a film from 1958 you're going to hear language from 1958. But if it is so outrageously rude, we'll take it out.' Other elements are more nuanced, especially in light of their context. Films such as the 1959 crime drama Sapphire contain racist language precisely because it is a critical study of racist attitudes in London at the time. In the world of comedy, meanwhile, the offending characters are often being sent up for their unsavoury views, or will ultimately get their comeuppance as a result of them. Robert Ross, an author and comedy historian, says: 'No producer, no actor, no writer of that generation of comedy set out to be malicious or offend on purpose. It was all for good, clean fun.' Ofcom says it is not a censor and takes context into account when considering complaints. Cronin-Stanley insists that after almost a decade of broadcasting, her channel has found a 'happy medium' to stay within the regulator's rules, though she says any move to edit programmes sparks an angry response from viewers. Free speech fears Others are less sanguine. Moore argues that Ofcom's approach means classic programming is at risk of being cut beyond all recognition as broadcasters self-censor, warning that this could ultimately lead to extinction. 'The last thing we want is a whopping great big fine coming in the post because we've let something slip,' he says. 'So we're very aware and very nervous about that and we probably do go a bit further than we should, maybe, because of that fear.' Critics point to similar examples in the publishing industry where the works of children's authors such as Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl were revised to avoid causing offence. Blyton's Famous Five books were subsequently reverted to their original language after the edits flopped. Campaigners are now calling on Ofcom to grant an exemption for classic comedies, much in the same way that vintage cars become exempt from MOTs and road tax once they turn 40 years old. Such a move would free old-school programmes from language restrictions on the proviso that viewers were given adequate prior warning about the content. Ross argues it is vital to keep broadcasting these films and programmes to preserve a window into a Britain long gone, and that a trigger warning is a small price to pay. 'If that's what's needed to actually let this stuff out of the vaults, then that's good,' he says. The debate over free speech comes as Ofcom is already facing criticism from Donald Trump's administration over its crackdown on online harms. US officials are believed to have raised concerns that the new laws, which are designed to protect children from harmful material circulating on social media, target American companies and impinge on free speech. It comes amid a broader campaign by Trump's administration, which cites free speech in its efforts to overturn what it describes as censorship on social media platforms. In a speech in Munich in January, JD Vance, the vice president, launched a ferocious attack on Europe, accusing the bloc of abandoning 'some of its most fundamental values' and claiming free speech was 'in retreat'. He said: 'What no democracy, American, German or European will survive, is telling millions of voters that their thoughts and concerns, their aspirations, their pleas for relief, are invalid or unworthy of even being considered.' An Ofcom spokesman said: 'Ofcom is not a censor. Freedom of expression is at the heart of our broadcasting rules which do not prevent the broadcast of content that may be offensive or controversial to some audiences. 'There is editorial freedom for each broadcaster to decide how it covers any issue, topic or programme type. 'In our research, audiences recognise offensive language can play an important role on TV and radio. But viewers and listeners still want broadcasters to take care with potentially offensive terms, particularly so children are protected, and especially when discriminatory language is used. 'Our rules and research help broadcasters to strike the right balance. 'We've explored people's views on the acceptability of outdated or discriminatory content being broadcast in older programmes. Our research reflects that viewers welcome being warned about this kind of content at the start of programmes whilst still being given the opportunity to watch and enjoy older material.' Beneath the discussions about censorship and the nanny state, however, is a desire among these channels to preserve a piece of the past. 'It's not a nice thing to be responsible for when effectively you are butchering shows,' says Moore. 'We're not just here for a quick buck, we actually deeply care about the programming and we want to preserve what is, at the end of the day, history and historical artefacts – that's how we view them.'
Daily Mail
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Comedian Ross Noble forced to reschedule 'next few shows' due to a kidney infection as he shares snap from hospital bed
Ross Noble has been forced to reschedule his 'next few shows' due to a kidney infection, he shared on social media on Monday. The British standup comedian and actor, 48, who is currently in Australia, posted a snap from his hospital bed to announce the news to his 59,600 followers. He shared a selfie with his thumb up and a cannula in his hand as he explained that he's been advised by doctors to miss the upcoming shows of his new live show, Cranium of Curiosities. The show is currently touring Down Under until September before heading to the UK later this year in October. In his new post, Ross quipped: 'I couldn't be more gutted to have to make this post. 'First up I am sorry for messing any of you around and second I am doing fine and recovering as best I can. The British standup comedian and actor, 48, who is currently in Australia, posted a snap from his hospital bed to announce the news to his 59,600 followers 'In all my years of touring I can count on one hand the number of shows I have had to postpone due to illness. The show must go on and I am usually able to power through. Sadly this time I have been told by the doctor not to.' He continued: 'It is with deep regret I am having to reschedule my next few shows. I got what I thought was a regular sickness but to cut a long story short I am in hospital fighting off a b****** of a kidney infection. 'I will return recovered and ready to go asap. The comic explained that if you have tickets for the affected shows they will still be valid for the new date or refund, which will be at the first availability with venues, who will contact fans to arrange. He signed off with: 'Thank you for your understanding and I will see you in no time fighting fit and back at it.' Fans rushed to the comments to share their well wishes with the star. It comes after Ross made headlines in January for saying classic beloved BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo! 'would not be created in today's society' because viewers would not approve of making Nazis 'funny'. The comedian said that he doesn't believe some of the joked would 'fly' in the same way and believed that the attitude was 'mad'. The tv show, which graced BBC One screens from 1982 to 1992, brimmed with cheeky character portrayals and iconic running gags and has become one of the nation's most cherished TV comedies. Set against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied France during World War II, the show was a spoof of the BBC's own drama Secret Army. With its unforgettable cast of eccentric characters – including the scheming Herr Flick, the bumbling Nazi officers Hubert Gruber, Erich Von Klinkerhoffen, and Kurt von Strohm and sassy secretary Helga Geerhart – it kept viewers laughing week after week. Speaking about the show on Rob Brydon's podcast, Ross said: 'The thing about 'Allo 'Allo! is, it's one of those things where I don't know whether or not nowadays mining the Gestapo for comedy would fly in quite the same way.' Brydon replied that he did not think the show condoned the Gestapo, and Noble said: 'No, no, no they weren't – they were making a mockery. 'They were making a mockery of it, but I think now people would just go 'Woah, hang on a second. We can't have funny Nazis'. Which is mad, because you're right, they were [making a mockery].' 'I think now people would just go 'Woah, hang on a second. We can't have funny Nazis', he added. At the heart of the action was Rene Artois, the unwilling Resistance member and cafe owner, portrayed by the late Gorden Kaye. Each episode saw Rene and his merry band of French Resistance fighters outwit their bumbling German captors, delivering plenty of laughs and mischief along the way. It comes after censors slapped an offensiveness warning on 'Allo 'Allo episodes in case viewers are upset by characters taking the mickey out of French and German accents. The BBC comedy, which ran from 1982 to 1992, coined a multitude of catchphrases that proved popular for decades. 'Good Moaning', uttered completely straight by French policeman Officer Crabtree, is still widely offered as a greeting nearly 30 years after Cafe René closed its doors for the last time. But an online streaming service has included warnings over the show's content, which includes panto-style sexual innuendo as well as the foreign accents across its nine series, according to the Sun. A message appears on the screen before each episode on Britbox, which reads: 'This classic comedy contains language and attitudes of the time that may offend some viewers.' 'Allo 'Allo starred Gordon Kaye as cafe owner René, who had to deal with a host of problems in German-occupied France during the Second World War. These included a dishonest German officer, a local French Resistance leader, a stolen painting, and a pair of trapped British airmen. René also tried to conceal from his wife the secret affairs he is having with his waitresses. The comedy was so popular during the 80s and 90s, a stage version was created. Rumours also began to circulate of a remake five years ago, but there were reportedly concerns within the BBC that characters such as Herr Flick, an officer in the Gestapo, could cause offence.
The Guardian
24-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
‘They now put trigger warnings on Hi-de-Hi!' Jeffrey Holland on starring in British comedy classics
To the general showbiz warning about never acting with animals, Jeffrey Holland has a specific footnote to add about equine erections. While filming Hi-de-Hi!, the 1980s BBC sitcom set in a holiday camp, Holland one day found himself playing the front half of a pantomime horse, with co-star Su Pollard in the rear. The visual gag was that the rag nag ends up riding a real one. 'So the horse had to be in the scene,' recalls Holland. 'But it took rather an interest in the pantomime one and started sniffing around its hindquarters. Su said words to the effect of, 'Oh, eck!' and asked for help. But I'm afraid all I could say was, 'You'd better brace yourself, Su. I'm going to eat some grass!'' A horseman on set diverted the randy stallion, but the incident triggered a flashback for Holland. A panto he once appeared in included a Coventry production with real horses. One would become aroused as soon as it walked on stage, forcing the director to place an actor with a large flag between it and the audience. 'Apparently, it was responding to a perfume an actress was wearing,' Holland recalls – and being careful with scent around mounts is one of the many useful tips for younger performers contained in Holland's new memoir, The First Rule of Comedy ..! The title comes from the 'professional' advice that Paul Shane, as campsite entertainment host Ted Bovis, would give to Holland, playing younger comedian Spike, in Hi-de-Hi! That show dominates the book, but Holland's involvement in it was the result of sheer chance. In 1975, dismayed at not being cast in two plays at Chichester, the then 29-year-old went grumpily and reluctantly to audition for a London stage show of Dad's Army. 'I was furious when I arrived. But David Croft, the director, cast me and that was the day that changed my life. It's better not to think about it having gone the other way, really. It's terrifying.' In this theatrical spin-off from the Home Guard sitcom, Holland had 'five or six costumes, and it was 78 steps from the stage to my dressing room so I was up and down them all night. I think that may have stuck in David's mind: Jeff Holland likes silly costumes! So Spike, who was always appearing in outrageous get-ups, was written with me in mind.' Holland became a member of Croft's TV repertory company. As well as Hi-de-Hi! he appeared in two other shows Croft co-wrote with Jimmy Perry (Dad's Army, You Rang M'Lord?), one collaboration with Jeremy Lloyd (Are You Being Served?) and one with Richard Spendlove (Oh, Doctor Beeching!) He missed out on Croft and Lloyd's 'Allo 'Allo! on TV but got the full set by appearing in a stage version. 'Allo 'Allo! was a parody of Secret Army, a serious BBC drama set in occupied Belgium. It is thought that Holland is the only actor to have been in both franchises, although his first performance in Secret Army offered a clue to where his career was headed: 'I played a French resistance fighter called Michel. Wearing a beret, doing comedy eye acting, I looked a complete tit. When my then wife saw it, she thought it was the funniest thing she'd ever seen. Maybe that's why I've mainly done comedy.' Croft's successes were, unusually for sitcoms, often set in the past, whether the second world war home front, the 1920s stately home of You Rang, M'Lord?, the 1950s holiday camp of Hi-de-Hi!, or the 1960s branch railway station of Oh, Doctor Beeching! This, Holland believes, was key: 'David always said that if you set them in the past, they wouldn't date. He also disliked doing Christmas specials because those could only be repeated once a year. That was his producer's brain at work. 'The knack David and his co-writers had is that they were wonderful at creating situations in which people who would otherwise never have met were forced to be together. Those businessmen in Dad's Army would never have socialised but, under the umbrella of the Home Guard, they had to. And in Hi-de-Hi!, they were all failures who would have given anything not to be stuck with those other flops. Spike Dixon was desperate to be a comedian but had no hope whatsoever.' Croft's theories of comedy worked to the extent that, 37 years after its final episode aired, Hi-de-Hi! is still streaming on multiple platforms including ITVX, while Holland attends regular fan days in Harwich, where it was filmed. He also goes to Dad's Army events in Thetford, Norfolk, although he only played the small part of a truck-driver who mud-splatters Captain Mainwaring. He is one of the last surviving actors from the show, so feels it is his duty to attend. 'It's extraordinary how the shows live on. At the last Hi-de-Hi! event, there was a six-year-old who knew all the episodes by heart and really loved Spike, who she wanted to meet. Her mum tactfully warned her that Spike would look very different today – which obviously I do! – but she didn't seem to care. Her mum wasn't even born when we made the show. I don't think I'm recognisable now but, just the other day in the street, someone shouted out, 'Hi-De-Hi Mr Holland!'' In fact, he's Jeffrey Parkes, the name of the family into which he was born in 1946 in Walsall, the West Midlands still audible in his speech. As with many actors, he was forced to change his surname under Equity rules because a soundalike already had it. 'I only use Holland in the business. I couldn't bring myself to change my first name – though I know actors who have – because I've been Jeff all my life. Holland was my grandma's maiden name and it's suited me well. He has Parkes and Holland bank accounts, the latter for acting fees. He is from the generation that still get 'residuals' (repeat fees) rather than 'buyouts' (a single payment). A comedy rerun channel, That's TV 2, shows You Rang M'Lord at 8pm every evening. Holland's role as James Twelvetrees ('almost a straight role in a comedy') is his favourite TV character and he was astonished to discover that 'it's shown in Hungary every day in either English or Hungarian. They just love it. It's because they recognise that two-tier system, the unfairness of it, from having been under the communists for decades.' Another recent residual payment was £140 for a recent BBC Four repeat of the 1978 Thomas Hardy serial The Mayor of Casterbridge, in which he played a cart-driver. Holland rewatched not from vanity but morbid curiosity. When filming, he was still heavily stitched from a vasectomy the previous day, and a scene in which he jumps down from the cart sent shockwaves through his penis. 'I still remember the pain. But, watching it, you really couldn't tell. Which gives me a certain professional pride. I played through it.' He has generational regrets about the way he feels the profession has changed, finding many young stage actors inaudible: 'They're not taught voice projection like I was. The college I went to in Birmingham was known for vocal training. Young actors aren't taught how to produce the voice from the diaphragm. I've sat in the third row of the stalls and not been able to hear what's being said. You want to shout, 'Speak up!'' His speech teacher would be pleased that, even at 78, his impression of an irritated theatregoer hits the back wall of the living room, threatening to tremble the Pointless Celebrities trophy that he recently won with Su Pollard. And, having spent much of his career in the TV genre of 'Mrs Slocombe's pussy', pantomime and Ray Cooney stage sex farces, Holland also regrets the contemporary crackdown on innuendo and sexual slapstick. He is careful to draw a distinction between sexualised behaviour in workplaces or in public – 'that's clearly wrong' – and the policing of lines in old shows: 'David [Croft] and Jimmy [Perry] would turn in their graves. They put a trigger warning on Hi-de-Hi! on BritBox to say these are dated opinions and some people might be offended. The fact that they think Hi-de-Hi! might offend is beyond me. But there you go. People are just over-sensitive about everything now. They're looking for trouble.' His memoir reveals that a 'very big' publisher turned down The First Rule of Comedy..!, after initially expressing interest, because of rumours that Holland had worn blackface makeup in an edition of Are You Being Served? He is indignant about this: the character was white and what was then called a 'hippy' with what was known at the time as an 'afro' hairdo. But, although this isn't mentioned in the book, Holland admits that he did once wear blackface. On ITV's Russ Abbot's Madhouse, he, Abbot, Les Dennis and Michael Barrymore played a soul quartet group called The Four Bottoms, a spoof of Motown quartet the Four Tops. 'You couldn't do it now,' he admits. But does he wish he hadn't done it then? 'No. Because in the 80s, it got no letters from anyone at all. It was the lyrics that were funny and to sing them we had to dress accordingly. That was then, this is now.' A longtime career ambition was a one-man show about comedian Stan Laurel, which he has performed four times at the Edinburgh festival and toured around the UK. In the book, though, Holland says he will be happy to be remembered as 'that bloke from Hi-de-Hi!' But is that just memoir bravado? 'No! I've never understood those actors – I could name them but I won't – who become known for a series and, when it's over, they don't want to know any more. I'm thrilled to have played Spike in the success that Hi-de-Hi! was and still is.' He is excited to be published, although suffers the irritation of many modern autobiographers: 'There are three other books on Amazon claiming to be the story of Jeffrey Holland. But it's just internet shit.' On the retail site, 'Lawrence Hardison' is offering 58 pages for £15.99, 'Elliot Lewis' 44 pages for £15.50 and 'Jack Astley' 93 pages for £14.99. Readers may suspect that a more honest nom de plume for the authors would have the initials AI. 'We put up a tweet straight away with me holding the real book. The problem is it's not actually illegal. Although we're looking at taking action at the the one who claims 'Jeffrey Holland takes you through the highs and lows of his life' because obviously I don't.' True admirers should pay for the 256 pages of The First Rule of Comedy..!, in which you also get Su Pollard's comment about sex workers to Prince Andrew. The First Rule of Comedy..! by Jeffrey Holland is available now, published by the History Press
