10-05-2025
Rory Bremner: I'm not brave enough to do Nigel Farage in Clacton
Rory Bremner is pacing around a north London pub, miming lines, running material through his busy brain. The veteran impressionist is more often seen on television or heard on radio, a fixture since the days of Thatcher and Major, and on Bremner, Bird and Fortune or I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. Yet here he is, at a humble Monday night comedy club, looking as if he'd rather be anywhere else — quiet, jittery, terrified.
At about 10pm he bounds on stage and says he has to go soon. 'I've got to rush off and do Kemi Badenoch's leaving party,' he says. 'It's a surprise.' The crowd laugh. A few even cheer. And from then on Bremner relaxes, as he goes on a rollercoaster
