9 d. ago Robin Williams classic rated higher than My Oxford Year streaming on Netflix now

My Oxford Year was set to be Netflix's next big smash hit movie, but a forgotten classic starring the legendary Robin Williams was added to its catalogue this week

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3 w. ago ‘Robin Williams said: “I’ll buy the club!”’: how The Comic Strip set the UK comedy scene ablaze

It started in a strip joint and ended up bringing alternative comedy to our TV screens. Ahead of a new Edinburgh show, Peter Richardson tells us why his riotous creation still makes audiences laugh 40 years onIt was the moment comedy broke with sexism – yet it happened in a strip club. It was a fervour of free creative expression – yet it retained a commercial, careerist edge. It was one of the longest-running and most successful brands in UK comedy history – which few people could now recognise.At the Edinburgh fringe this summer, The Comic Strip Presents will be memorialised in a series of film screenings and Q&As with its creator and prime mover Peter Richardson. Richardson was the impresario behind the legendary comedy club The Comic Strip, which opened in 1980. When he and his star performers – Rik Mayall, Alexei Sayle, French and Saunders among them – created Channel 4’s The Comic Strip Presents a couple of years later, he could legitimately claim to be the man who brought...

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3 w. ago Robin Williams facts to mark the wacky awareness day created in his honour

It’s 11 years since comedian Robin Williams died at the age of 63. We remember the icon on his birthday – christened Invite an Alien to Live with You Day by fans

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4 w. ago 'Masterpiece' comedy 'perfect for movie night' is now streaming for free

The 2017 flick is a sequel to an iconic Robin Williams comedy

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4 w. ago 'Hilarious' sequel to iconic Robin Williams comedy is streaming for free

Robin Williams' iconic nineties comedy gets a new lease of life in this 2017 sequel, available to stream now

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4 w. ago Disney classic rated 100% on Rotten Tomatoes as fans declare it 'perfect'

Toy Story was the first ever feature-length film to be completely computer animated and it has since become known as one of the greatest animated movies ever made

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