Dead Funny

It's a classic recipe for laughs. Combine the witty pen of playwright Terry Johnson with the comedic talent of funny man Steve Pemberton, best known and loved for his role in The League of Gentlemen. Add a dash of Katherine Parkinson, the woman who hilariously broke the internet in TV's The IT Crowd. Blend in Ralf Little, who won friends and influenced people in The Royle Family telly sitcom. Stir in a chunk of Rufus Jones, garnish with Emily Berrington and you have a dream cast performing a dream of a comedy, an award-winner that raised the roof at the Vaudeville back in the mid 1990s.

Welcome to Islington, where Richard and Eleanor's marriage is in pieces despite the couple signing up for sex therapy. Eleanor wants a baby but Richard is obsessed with running the Dead Funny Society, which celebrates deceased comedians. When Benny Hill and Frankie Howerd both pop their clogs in the same week, Richard springs into action with a party to celebrate their lives and work. But it isn't at all funny, bringing all manner of genuine and metaphorical skeletons rattling out of all sorts of embarrassing cupboards. Expect nudity, simulated sex, violence and bad language, all wrapped up in a genuinely side-splitting plot.