Dead Funny

Dead Funny

by Robin InceReece Shearsmith Neil Edmond and others
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 01/10/2014

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What happens when mirth turns to murder? When the screams are not from joy, but flesh-ripping pain? Dead Funny is an audacious anthology, featuring tales of terror from some of the brightest lights in UK comedy.


Award winners Robin Ince and Johnny Mains team up for this unique exploration of the relationship between comedy and horror to see if they do, as believed, make the most comfortable of bedfellows.


Featuring the talents of


Mitch Benn, Katy Brand, Neil Edmond, Richard Herring, Charlie Higson, Matthew Holness, Rufus Hound, Robin Ince, Phill Jupitus, Tim Key, Stewart Lee, Michael Legge, Al Murray, Sara Pascoe, Reece Shearsmith, Danielle Ward


Dead Funny


You'll die screaming.

ISBN:
9781844719921
9781844719921
Category:
Horror & ghost stories
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
01-10-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
SALÚT!
Robin Ince

Robin Ince is co-presenter of the award-winning BBC Radio 4 show, The Infinite Monkey Cage. He has won the Time Out Outstanding Achievement in Comedy, was nominated for a British Comedy Award for Best Live show, and has one three Chortle Awards.

He has toured his stand up across the world from Oslo to LA to Sydney, both solo and with his radio double act partner, Professor Brian Cox. He is the radio critic for the Big Issue and writes a monthly column about science for Focus Magazine. He appears regularly on both television and radio. He has two top-ten iTunes podcast series to his name.

Reece Shearsmith

Reece Shearsmith is the award-winning actor, writer and co-creator of The League of Gentlemen. He has also starred in numerous other TV comedies, including Car Share alongside Peter Kay, Mid Morning Matters with Steve Coogan, Catterick with Reeves and Mortimer and Spaced with Simon Pegg. As well as writing Inside No. 9, Reece also starred in Psychoville, which he co-wrote with Pemberton and ran for two series and a Halloween Special.

Richard Herring

Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and is an innovator in the world of podcasts. Persistently placing in the Top 10 UK Comedy Podcast chart, Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast sees him interview top comedians in front of a live audience, with previous guests including Stephen Fry, David Mitchell, and Russell Brand.

He has written and appeared in a number of critically acclaimed plays, is a frequent guest on television panel shows, and regularly tours as a stand-up comedian.

Katy Brand

Katy Brand is an award-winning writer, comedian and actor. After starting to write and perform comedy as a student at Oxford University, she became a regular on the UK live sketch comedy scene. In 2005 she took her debut Edinburgh show Celebrities are Gods to the Fringe which was immediately picked up for Channel 4 (Slap). This later became her award-winning ITV sketch show, Katy Brand's Big Ass Show, which she devised, wrote and starred in. It ran for three series and later became a nationwide live tour.

Sara Pascoe

Sara is a multi award-winning comedian and writer. In addition to filming her BBC stand up special, LadsLadsLads, she wrote and starred in her own sitcom Out Of Her Mind (BBC2) and is the celebrated host of The Great British Sewing Bee (BBC2), Last Woman On Earth (BBC2), Comedians Giving Lectures (Dave) and Guessable (Comedy Central).

Sara wrote and starred in the BBC2 short Sara Pascoe vs Monogamy - which was inspired by her first book, Animal. Her second book, Sex Power Money was a Sunday Times bestseller, and the accompanying podcast has garnered millions of listens and multiple award nominations.

Charlie Higson

Charlie Higson started writing when he was ten years old. After university he was a singer and painter and decorator before he started writing for television. He went on to create and star in the hugely successful comedy series The Fast Show. He is the author of the bestselling Young Bond books and the incredibly successful horror series, The Enemy.

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