Television comedian and silent cinema champion Paul Merton will be hosting a special programme of silent film comedians, including Chaplin, Keaton, Fatty Arbuckle and Charley Chase, with music by Neil Brand, at Plymouth Pavilions on 27 November 2007 - some time off, but tickets are on sale now. Merton has written a book, Silent Comedy, which will be published in October 2007. Look out for plenty of publicity and events around that time.
Update: See later post, Paul Merton on tour, for a list of his November-December tour dates, with links to the theatres.
April 4, 2007 at 10:30 am
Worth noting that an interesting (if not 100% accurate) interactive flash archive hosted by Paul Merton can be found on the link below.
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tours/merton/tourmerton1.html
Haven’t been through all of it yet, but it’s pretty entertaining viewing.