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COMEDY / Holiday on dry ice: Martin Kelner on Billy Connolly
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Posted by Martin "The Big Yin" Kelner on Aug 25, 2009 - 8:44:05 PM Here's a piece I wrote for The Independent more than fifteen years ago. Not sure whether Billy was still drinking then, but he was living in L.A. and came back here to do a bunch of Bobby Davro style venues, bizarrely unsuited to his style. Now read on..... more - >
The late great Humphrey Lyttleton
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Posted by Martin "Samantha is on my right hand" Kelner on Jun 6, 2009 - 11:55:36 PM In our ongoing series of articles about dead people, this is a piece I wrote 15 years ago in the glory, glory days of The Independent about Humphrey Lyttleton.....
The secret of Humph: He's the 'comic hero' with the perfect sense of timing. He's the 'chairman's chairman'. He's the 'top trumpet man in Britain'. Martin Kelner on the busy life of Humphrey Lyttelton
Saturday, 21 May 1994..
Now read on....
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"Hell I know how. Question is, when?"
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Posted by Martin "brothel creepers" Kelner on Apr 27, 2009 - 12:38:34 PM LaVern Baker died in 1997, one of the uncrowned and often disregarded Queens of rock 'n' roll. I did one of the last interviews with her when she played Liverpool a few years before she died....She's probably best known for a brilliant Leiber and Stoller gospel spoof "Saved"....
Anyway, I've rescued the piece from the Independent archives and here it is..... more - >
Hey, Just a Doggone Minute...
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Posted by Martin "Deviation" Kelner on Apr 12, 2009 - 6:19:06 PM This is a piece I wrote for The Independent 16 years ago about the radio show Just A Minute. The arts editor, Tom Sutcliffe, suggested I write the whole thing in the style of the programme, which I thought a pretty naff idea, but as usual he was right and I was wrong.
Anyway I found it purely by chance on the Independent site, and thought I would put it on here, if only to prove there was a time when I actually interviewed loads of people to do a piece, rather than just watching the telly and thinking of a couple of jokes, as in Screen Break.
Now read on... more - >
End of the road - One of Britain's best-loved TV stars reflects on life and loss.
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Posted by Martin Kelner on Oct 5, 2007 - 3:49:43 PM "I have been silent for too long. It is time to speak out," says the one-time star, who in his heyday filled theatres and boasted a TV audience of millions. more - >
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