Remembering the stars and notable figures who've died this year, including director David Lynch, 'Oogum Boogum Song' musician ...
“We’re also really pleased to have Sandi Toksvig come to talk about her Mappa Mundi research project which has been looking at the lack of representation of women’s stories and experiences online. She ...
Cambridge being as it is, many have come from privileged upbringings - with a training in the world-famous Footlights scene only enhancing their skills, contacts and career prospects. Yet not all ...
Sir Stephen Fry, Slattery’s friend from their Cambridge Footlights days, remembered him as ‘the ... to emerge from his lifelong battle with so many dark demons Comedian Sandi Toksvig called him ‘the ...
And the following year, Slattery was named Footlights' President ... Josie Lawrence and Sandi Toksvig, as well as Rory Bremner and Sir Stephen, in 48 episodes from 1988 to 1995.
Footlights, in 1982, alongside Emma Thompson, Jan Ravens, Richard Vranch and his future co-star Sandi Toksvig. In 1988, he became a regular fixture on Whose Line Is It Anyway? leaving the show in 1995 ...
It was there that he met Fry and joined the Cambridge Footlights, a student sketch comedy group that ... Dame Emma Thompson, and Sandi Toksvig, all of whom would go on to achieve great success in ...
And the following year, Slattery was named Footlights' President ... the likes of fellow Comedy Store Players members Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence and Sandi Toksvig, as well as Rory Bremner and Sir ...
He then met Stephen, who became a close friend and invited Tony to join Footlights, where he met contemporaries such as Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Sandi Toksvig and discovered a love of theatre.
Comedian and actor Tony Slattery, who has died aged 65, showed youthful promise in the Cambridge Footlights troupe - alongside a host of future household names.
which saw him against comedians like Paul Merton and Sandi Toksvig, as well as reuniting ... We auditioned for the Cambridge Footlights as Iris Murdoch vs The Smog Monster and performed on the ...