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Alternative comedian Joe Kent-Walters: ‘I used to do a strip tease with carrier bags’
- The Yorkshire-born standups’s surreal take on a working men’s club has bagged him comedy awards and a BBC radio pilot. But even as he dreams of a Mrs Merton-style talkshow, he’s still insistent on keeping things surreal
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Two George Formby ukuleles could fetch just under £20,000 at auction
One of the instruments was used in the entertainer's first film Boots! Boots! in 1934.
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Sorry I told the world you love George Formby, Your Majesty, biographer jokes
Sorry I told the world you love George Formby, Your Majesty, biographer jokes
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The Queen celebrates her 92nd birthday in style with star-studded concert
The Queen took to the stage at her own star-studded 92nd birthday during an action-packed showbiz extravaganza at the Royal Albert Hall. Artists from around the Commonwealth performed at the event, which topped off a week when the UK hosted 53 countries for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
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Kitty Lux obituary
Kitty Lux was given her first ukulele for her birthday by her friend George Hinchliffe and taught how to play it, and before long they had formed the world’s first ukulele orchestra. After a period when it was widely regarded as a joke instrument suitable only for George Formby imitators, the ukulele has enjoyed something of a revival in the present century. Much of the credit for this belongs to the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, which has performed at home and abroad with its slogan “a
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Window cleaner has unexpected encounter with Kylie Minogue
As George Formby once observed, window-cleaning can be an interesting job on occasions. This Sydney-based window cleaner had an unusually glitzy day at work yesterday when he spotted Kylie Minogue on the other side of the glass.
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