Beyond the Fringe News

And the funniest of them all was... Peter Cook, ahead of John Cleese, Woody Allen, Groucho Marx, and even Laurel and Hardy.

For a comedian who, early next month, will have been dead for a decade, and whose career was widely considered a bit of a failure, Peter Cook still generates heated passions and strong allegiances.

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It's the permissive '70s and a group of Brits in Brighton by the Sea is caught in a comic whirlwind.

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, a three-week cultural jamboree which starts this weekend, is to struggling performers what the Statue of Liberty once was to immigrants to the United States.

When a distinguished academic reaches the age of 70, his or her colleagues will often gather together to assemble a Festschrift - a collection of essays in that professor's chosen field.

Full disclosure: I may not be the best person to review spiritual books. My idea of a good Catholic is Graham Greene, who actively wrestled with his faith and probably sent C.S. Lewis into cardiac arrhythmia with every mention of a ...

Nicholas Luard, who died on Tuesday aged 66, was a prolific writer of fiction and travel books but best known - to his mild irritation - for his role in the "satire boom" of the early ...

Alan Bennett's illustrious career as a stage dramatist began in 1968 with Forty Years On, a comedy set in a minor public school symbolically named Albion House.