1. ARTS EMERGENCY IN AN EMERGENCY

ARTS EMERGENCY is a charity I have done stuff for in the past. Its work is more important than ever and the situation for the people it helps has worsened considerably since it was set up. Please help fund them.

Neil Art says, “Arts Emergency is a charity and national movement providing an emergency response to the entrenchment of privilege in UK arts and culture. Our free, year-long mentoring programme matches underrepresented teenagers with a volunteer mentor in their dream career (from journalism to gaming to comedy) – providing real, practical knowledge and connections. And then we support them for another nine years as they take their onward steps in the creative & cultural industries. Arts Emergency is people-powered and we rely heavily on monthly donations. Please consider donating £2 a month to help us grow our ‘alternative old boys network’ and change culture for the better.”

2. A GLITCH WITH THE SEARCH FUNCTIONALITY

“A glitch with the search functionality” meant that none of my six dates to the Royal Festival Hall have been showing up on the South Bank Centre website if you search for me.
We had 12000+ tickets to sell. 95% seem to have gone, though there might be some left for the matinees. If you were puzzled as to whether I am on there in July, I am, but you may have to just go to the calendar page and scroll to find me. I try to play there if they will have me as, unlike other big venues, they can keep prices down and don’t offer an obvious and deliberate back door to touts and secondary markets.

3. NEW MERCH

Along with WAXFACE’s usual line of Stewart Lee merch there are new for 2025 t-shirts and hoodies on the Man-Wulf theme, all of the highest quality. I’d wear them myself but I’d look arrogant. Waste the money your Nan gave you for Xmas here

wax-face.com/stewart-lee

4. MAN-WULF BY THE PRIMEVALS

Glasgow’s garage punk veterans The Primevals announce a new single as featured in the new Stewart Lee vs The Man-Wulf U.K. tour.
There are 3 versions
Side a I’m The Man-Wulf
Side b I’m The Man-Wulf (long nail edit)
Plus a 9 minute I’m The Man-Wulf (long nail version) (I LOOOOOVE THIS!!)

Vinyl sides a&b were released on a 7” 45 in January.

See The Primevals live JUNE 27^th London Hope & Anchor, 28^th Preston Ferret.

There’s now a cool arty video for the song too

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yazuiF0OiAI

https://primevals.bandcamp.com

5. BASIC LEE IS ON NOW TV

https://www.nowtv.com/ie/watch/entertainment/collections/ultimate-comedy/asset/stewart-lee-basic-lee…/A5EK6949itCVNKaChrDXN

You’ll have to subscribe though.

Here is a thorough, and not entirely positive, review from a thoughtful young man on Youtube, still better than most pro-critics.
https://youtu.be/kdOYgqCzJ4s?si=1uIZBn8tMWsAiS0h

6. STEWART LEE VS THE MAN-WULF

John Mackay & Sally Homer, in association with Debi Allen/Curtis Brown present

STEWART LEE vs THE MAN-WULF

BRAND NEW SHOW

NB: TICKETS FOR THESE SHOWS WILL REMAIN AT THE ADVERTISED PRICE. SURGE PRICING IS IMMORAL AND TICKETMASTER AND OASIS ARE WANKERS, ENCOURAGED BY SUCCESSIVE TORY CULTURE SECRETARIES IN THEIR CRIMINAL ENDEAVOURS.

In this brand-new show, Lee shares his stage with a tough-talking werewolf comedian who hates humanity. The Man-Wulf lays down a ferocious comedy challenge to the culturally irrelevant and physically enfeebled Lee. Can the beast inside us all be silenced with the silver bullet of Lee’s unprecedentedly critically acclaimed style of stand-up.

The show will tour the UK throughout 2025 and 2026.

I AM VERY PLEASED WITH HOW THIS SHOW IS SHAPING UP – PRESS IS COLLECTING HERE.

July 2025

Saturday 5th July 2025 – Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London – TICKETS
Sunday 6th July 2025 (Matinee)- Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London – TICKETS
Sunday 6th July 2025 – Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London – TICKETS
Saturday 12th July 2025 – Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London – TICKETS
Sunday 13th July 2025 – (Matinee) Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London – TICKETS
Sunday 13th July 2025 – Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London – TICKETS

September 2025

Monday 8th September 2025 – Lighthouse, Poole – TICKETS
Tuesday 9th September 2025 – Lighthouse, Poole – TICKETS
Wednesday 10th September 2025 – Hall For Cornwall, Truro – TICKETS
Thursday 11th September 2025 – Northcott Theatre, Exeter – TICKETS
Friday 12th September 2025 – Northcott Theatre, Exeter – TICKETS
Saturday 13th September 2025 – Westlands Entertainment Venue, Yeovil – TICKETS
Sunday 14th September 2025 – Westlands Entertainment Venue, Yeovil – TICKETS
Tuesday 16th September 2025 – New Theatre, Cardiff – TICKETS
Wednesday 17th September 2025 – New Theatre, Cardiff – TICKETS
Thursday 18th September 2025 – New Theatre, Cardiff – TICKETS
Friday 19th September 2025 – New Theatre, Cardiff – TICKETS
Saturday 20th September 2025 – New Theatre, Cardiff – TICKETS
Wednesday 24th September 2025 – Hippodrome, Darlington – TICKETS
Thursday 25th September 2025 – Gala, Durham – TICKETS
Friday 26th September 2025 – Theatre Royal, Glasgow – TICKETS
Saturday 27th September 2025 – Playhouse, Edinburgh – TICKETS
Sunday 28th September 2025 – His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen – TICKETS

October 2025

Friday 3rd October 2025 – Aberystwyth Arts Centre – Great Hall, Aberystwyth – TICKETS
Tuesday 7th October 2025 – Milton Keynes Theatre, Milton Keynes – TICKETS
Wednesday 8th October 2025 – Milton Keynes Theatre, Milton Keynes – TICKETS
Thursday 9th October 2025 – Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford – TICKETS
Friday 10th October 2025 – Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford – TICKETS
Saturday 11th October 2025 – Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford – TICKETS
Wednesday 15th October 2025 – Grand Theatre, Swansea – TICKETS
Thursday 16th October 2025 – Grand Theatre, Swansea – TICKETS
Friday 17th October 2025 – Bristol Beacon, Bristol – TICKETS
Saturday 18th October 2025 – Bristol Beacon, Bristol – TICKETS
Tuesday 21st October 2025 – Storyhouse, Chester – TICKETS
Wednesday 22nd October 2025 – Storyhouse, Chester – TICKETS
Thursday 23rd October 2025 – Opera House, Buxton – TICKETS
Friday 24th October 2025 – Opera House, Buxton – TICKETS
Saturday 25th October 2025 – The Baths Hall, Scunthorpe – TICKETS
Wednesday 29th October 2025 – Cast, Doncaster – TICKETS
Thursday 30th October 2025 – Cast, Doncaster – TICKETS
Friday 31st October 2025 – Harrogate Theatre, Harrogate – TICKETS

November 2025

Saturday 1st November 2025 – Harrogate Theatre, Harrogate – TICKETS
Sunday 2nd November 2025 – Harrogate Theatre, Harrogate – TICKETS
Monday 3rd November 2025 – Tyne Theatre & Opera House, Newcastle Upon Tyne – TICKETS
Tuesday 4th November 2025 – Tyne Theatre & Opera House, Newcastle Upon Tyne – TICKETS
Friday 7th November 2025 – The Anvil, Basingstoke – TICKETS
Saturday 8th November 2025 – Rose Theatre, Kingston – TICKETS
Sunday 9th November 2025 – Rose Theatre, Kingston – TICKETS
Tuesday 11th November 2025 – Brighton Dome, Brighton – TICKETS
Wednesday 12th November 2025 – Brighton Dome, Brighton – TICKETS
Thursday 13th November 2025 – Brighton Dome, Brighton – TICKETS
Friday 14th November 2025 – Brighton Dome, Brighton – TICKETS
Saturday 15th November 2025 – Brighton Dome, Brighton – TICKETS
Monday 17th November 2025 – Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham – TICKETS
Tuesday 18th November 2025 – Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham – TICKETS
Wednesday 19th November 2025 – Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham – TICKETS

7. Snowflake/Tornado

Stewart’s 2019-2022 touring show Snowflake/Tornado, which was originally broadcast as a BBC Special in Autumn 2022 is now available to buy or rent “on demand” from www.mediagarageproductions.com

Both shows also appear to be free as part of the current Amazon Prime rosta, but buy them from us to defeat American fascism.

We are currently preparing a physical release of these shows but it’s got delayed as I got pneumonia and have been bogged down in picking through a wealth of possible, and very exciting, audio extras, where the material worked much better than in the broadcast show itself.

8. BENEFITS / FESTIVAL STAND-UP SETS 2025

(the usual 30 mins greatest hits shit)

18^TH – 20^TH JULY Toldpuddle Martyrs’ Festival, Tolpuddle, Dorset. I will be doing 20 mins on a mixed bill here one night. Looks great. https://www.tolpuddlemartyrs.org.uk/festival

14^th – 17^th AUGUST Green Man, Bannau Brycheiniog. Alan Sparkhawk, Big Special, Boss Morris, Bridget Hayden, Broadside Hacks, Daisy Rickman, Gwenno, Asha Puthli, Kneecap, Richard Dawson, Wet Leg, Yard Act

22^nd – 24^th August Krankenhaus, Muncaster Castle, Lake District Sea Power, Arab Strap, the legendary Throwing Muses, Jane Weaver, The Lovely Lovely Lovely Eggs, the awesome Richard Dawson, the amazing Nightingales who are currently ON FIRE!, that King Rocker film, the quirky Personal Trainer, the mesmerising Ex-Easter Island Head, the hypnotic Alison Cotton. I will also be being interviewed with Michael Cumming and The Nightingales by Jude Rogers. www.krankenhausfestival.com

28^th – 31^st August End Of The Road, Larmer Tree Gardens, Dorset. Black Country New Road, Goat, Lisa O’Neill, Throwing Muses, Vieux Farka Toure, The Bug Club, Ex-Easter Island Head, Broadside Hacks celebrate The Incredible String Band, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Six Organs Of Admittance, The New Eves, Jim Ghedi, Bridget Hayden, Daisy Rickman, Tropical Fuck Storm, Adam Buxton, Celya AB, Gina Birch, I will also be interviewing Black Country New Road on stage.

9. IDLER FEST 11-13 JULY, HAMPSTEAD HEATH, LONDON

I will be amongst the knobheads being grilled at the Idler magazine’s annual 3 day garden party. It’s a lovely event. “FENTON HOUSE & GARDEN, HAMPSTEAD, LONDON. The Idler Festival is a weekend of philosophy and merriment, comedy, talks, music, workshops and salons in the bucolic surroundings of Fenton House and gardens near Hampstead Heath.

You’ll be entertained and enlightened by the Idler’s favourite thinkers, comedians, writers, and musicians. There’ll be walks, ukulele, bibliotherapy, agony aunts, beekeeping and plenty of time to loaf under the apple trees. There’ll be dancing lessons on the lawn, loafing to DJs in the orchard and salons in the house. Join us for our dream garden party.

Headlining a stellar line up will be comedians Michael Palin and Stewart Lee and former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams. Plus Daisy Dunn, Miranda Sawyer, a mini pilgrimage with Guy Hayward, evensong on Sunday and much more to be announced. “Britain’s best arts and literary festival,” Spectator”

https://www.idler.co.uk/festival/

10. THE *UNTSIAD

The *Untsiad at The Cockpit Theatre, London on 20th July. In the 1720s, Alexander Pope, one of Britain’s greatest ever poets, commenced work on “THE DUNCIAD”, his blisteringly satirical attack on all the contemporary hacks he hated, those hopeless literary dunces who prospered at his expense in the service of the Great Goddess Dulness.

300 years later, Andy Croft Esq., of SMOKESTACK BOOKS, North-East England’s premier Marxist-Leninist Poetry Imprint, commissioned Master Martin Rowson, caricaturist, scribbler, collagist, ranter & SMOKESTACK POET, to reimagine Pope’s MASTERPIECE, widening his remit to traduce the Legion Dunces of all kinds that infest the MODERN AGE.
This Master Rowson duly did in 2050 lines of furious heroic couplets, published in Dec. MMXXIV A.D. as “THE “UNTSIAD”, perforce to sell the thing through the Rascal Bezos’s foul AMAZON.

FOR YOUR DELIGHT. “THE *UNTSIAD” has been adapted by Mister Nicholas Revell & The Author into A PERFORMANCE PIECE FOR 12 VOICES, with Nicholas REVELL & Rosie HOLT, Mr Jack KLAFF, Miss Clare FERGUSON-WALKER, Mr Mark Steel, Mr Stewart LEE, Mr Arthur SMITH, Commissar Andy CROFT, Dame Eliza CARTHY MBE, Mr Tim MCINNERNY, Master Matt COPSON, Martin Rowson

https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/re-enchant_july

11. COMPANY 2025 FOR DEREK BAILEY

I am compering 2 nights of this celebration of the late Derek Bailey at Café Oto, London, Dec 15^th-16^TH

https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/company-2025-for-derek-bailey/

MONDAY 15 DECEMBER 2025, 7.30PM
COMPANY 2025 (FOR DEREK BAILEY) – DAY ONE

£20 £18 ADVANCE £12 MEMBERS

TUESDAY 16 DECEMBER 2025, 7.30PM
COMPANY 2025 (FOR DEREK BAILEY) – DAY TWO

£20 £18 ADVANCE £12 MEMBERS

Derek Bailey formed COMPANY in 1976. The premise was an effectively simple one; invite a group of musicians to improvise together, in various ad-hoc formations, with as little pre-planning as possible. COMPANY 2025 (for Derek Bailey) celebrates this endeavour, and also marks the twentieth anniversary of Derek’s passing.

Khabat Abas (cello)
Julia Brüssel (violin)
John Butcher (saxophones)
Teresa Hackel (recorders)
Charles Hayward (drums)
Petra Heller (tap dance)
Pat Thomas (piano, electronics)
Matt Wand (electronics)
Alex Ward (electric guitar, clarinet)
Mark Wastell (percussion)

Compered by Stewart Lee

COMPANY 2025 (for Derek Bailey) includes musicians that participated in original COMPANY events organised by Derek; John Butcher (1990/91/92/95), Pat Thomas (1990/91), Alex Ward (1988/90/94, 2002), Mark Wastell (1999, 2000/01) and Matt Wand (1992/93), alongside performers new to the form; Khabat Abas, Charle Hayward, Teresa Heckel, Petra Heller and Julia Brüssel. Over two evenings, these ten musicians will combine in various group formations, chosen by a particular individual just moments before going on stage. The whole event will be compered by Derek Bailey devotee, Stewart Lee. COMPANY 2025 (for Derek Bailey) curated by John Butcher, Tim Fletcher, Ian Greaves and Mark Wastell.

And here’s me winning Celebrity Mastermind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk_l1pKTUZg

12. I ARROGANTLY RECOMMEND

ITHELL COLQUHOUN/THE NIGHT SIDE OF NATURE. Two Colquhoun canvasses are the clever hook to see works by a number of new female mystic artists, on sale at Purdy Hicks Gallery, 25 Thurloe St, London SW72LQ, June 12^th-August 9^th.

ITHELL COLQUHOUN – BETWEEN TWO WORLDS. This vast, timely, majestic, bewitching and unmissable career retrospective moves from Cornwall to Tate Britain from June 13^th – October 19^th and you can hear me waffling on on the accompanying audio app too. https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/burra-and-colquhoun

BEN MOOR – THREE THING DAY. The wry wordsmith has another linguistically lush meta-fiction in progress at London’s Hen & Chickens theatre in Islington. July 8^th & 14^th (7.30) and 20^th (3.00).

SKEP WAX WEEKENDER July 17^th – 20^th, Islington, London

Four nights of radical indiepop – Thursday and Friday evening at the Lexington, Saturday evening at Islington Town Hall, Sunday (4pm) back at The Lexington: see full line-up below. The ‘Weekender’ ticket will admit you to all four nights. Day tickets are available for each of the four shows.
Thursday (The Lexington) Jeanines, Sassyhiya, Panic Pocket
Friday (The Lexington) The Would-Be-Goods, The Orchids, Swansea Sound
Saturday (Islington Assembly Room) Heavenly, Lightheaded, Crumbs
Sunday (The Lexington), Marlody, The Gentle Spring, Special Friend
Venue addresses: The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, London, N1 9JB.
Islington Assembly Hall, Upper St, London, N1 2UD. (The venues are less than a mile apart.)
Heavenly’s new 7″ single will go on sale at this event.
Ticket prices include £1.50 Venue Levy for Islington Town Hall.
The Lexington is 18+ admission, The Islington Assembly Hall is 16+

https://wegottickets.com/f/13685

MARTIN SIMPSON Folk guitarist who mines the hidden connections between British and American traditional musics with taste and virtuosity. JULY 21^st Croydon Ruskin House. SEPT 6^th Howden Shire Hall

DAVID LANCE CALLAHAN The acoustic minimalist troubadour and chronicler of crumbling Albion continues his sacred trek. AUGUST: 1^st EDINBURGH Leith Depot; 3^rd THE CHILTERNS Awamu Together festival; 9^th PRESTON POPFEST; 10^th NEWCASTLE Cumberland Arms

SEPTEMBER: 19^th NOTTINGHAM JT Soar; 20^th SWANSEA Tangled Parrot; 21^st BRISTOL Knowle Constitutional Club; 28^th LONDON Lexington Resonance FM benefit with Jowe Head and Luke Haines etc.

MILLIONS OF DEAD COPS / MDC American hardcore heroes of NO KKK NO FASCIST USA chant fame. AUG 4^th – New Cross Inn, London

THE NEW CHRISTS!!!!! The audaciously named Australian Detroit-style punk legends reform and tour the UK. AUG 13^th M’cr Night & Day, 14^th Glasgow Stereo, 15^th London Oslo.

MISTY AT FIFTY! Misty in Roots, one of Britain’s greatest home-grown radical roots rockers hit their half century. If you don’t go YOU ARE LIKE A CABBAGE IN THIS SOCIETY! SEPT 13^th Bristol Lantern, OCT 3^rd Reading Sub89, 24^TH London Electric Ballroom, 30^th Brighton Concorde

EDWYN COLLINS Orange Juice’s indiepop originator SEPT 27^th Glasgow Theatre Royal, 29^th Buxton Opera House, 30^th Bath Komedia. OCT 2^nd S’hampton Central Hall, 3^rd Brighton St Georges, 4^th London RFH, 6^th Norwich Epic, 7^th Manchester Albert Hall, 8^th Newcastle Boiler Shop

14 ICE BEARS Unexpected re-emergence of Rob Secula’s lysergic proto-shoegazers. OCT 2^nd The Victoria, Hackney, London.

THE EX 3 DAY RESIDENCY. Holland’s amazing anarcho-jazzers The Ex have a 3 day residency at London’s Café Oto OCT 2^ND -4^TH. All nights have sold out, except the first one, which I am compering, so make of that what you will. https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the-ex-three-day-residency-25/

THE MAGPIE ARC Country-folk-indie conglomerate. OCT 17^th Cast Doncaster, 18^th  Indoor Festival of Folk (North), Victoria Hall, Settle (with Edgelarks, Frankie Archer, The Bookshop Band, The Magpie Arc and Ashley Hutchings in conversation with Matthew Bannister), 19^th Cluny 2 Newcastle,  23rd South Street Reading, 24th Water Rats London, 25th Ragged Bear Festival, Nuneaton (with The Men They Couldn’t Hang, Greenman Rising, Gaz Brookfield), 26th Acapela Studio Cardiff, 30th Gloucester Guildhall, NOV 1^st Met Bury, 2nd Robin 2 Bilston

THE LOVELY EGGS’ 20^TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR Durable art-punk DIY duo continue to dazzle into their third decade. OCT 22^nd Edinburgh Belle Angele, 23^rd Glasgow Oran Moor, 24^th Newcastle Uni, 25^th Leeds Brudenell, 26^th Brighton Concorde 2, 27^th London Garage, 28^th Cardiff Globe, 29^th B’ham Castle & Falcon, 30^th M’cr Academy 2, 31^st Nottingham Metronome, NOV 1^st Bristol Trinity. I will open for them at the Brighton show.

BOB MOULD Hardcore punk pioneer of Husker Du/Sugar lineage. NOV 18^th Glasgow Oran Mor, 19^th Leeds Brudenell, 20^th London Dome

SAINTS 73-79 Superb! The original line-up of the Australian Punk progenitors, but with Mudhoney’s Howlin’ Mark Arm deputising for the departed Chris Bailey (a gentleman and a scholar who once came to one of my shows and told me his tales afterwards!). His original co-writer and co-guitarist Ed Kuepper remains undimmed and the authentic ‘70s rhythm section will rattle your bones. NOVEMBER 21^ST Bristol Trinity, 22nd Leeds Project, 23^rd Glasgow Garage, 24^th M’cr Academy 2, 26^th London Camden Electric

DREAM SYNDICATE You must see this enduring American rock institution who impossibly combine free-jazz styled freakouts with classic solid literary songwriting. JAN 30^TH London Garage, FEB 1^st M’cr Band On The Wall.

KIKI AND HERB Superficially they may look like the kind of standard kitsch camp cabaret act designed for Hen Nights and weekend bohemians that is Soho Theatre’s bread and butter, but Kiki and Herb have a dangerous damaged manic downtown punk edge that is more ’70s New York No Wave than Las Vegas Lounge. They don’t make them like this anymore. Maybe they never did. Soho Theatre Walthamstow JULY 3rd-5th. https://sohotheatre.com/events/kiki-and-herb-are-trying/

12. IN OUR LAMENTATIONS 2025

Barre Phillips (Jazz bassman, 1934)
Bob Grover (Brighton Piranha, 1956)
Riro (Japanese sea otter, 2007)
Nora Orlandi (Spaghetti symphonist, 1933)
Ed Askew (Acid folkie, 1940)
Tony Slattery (The vile blows of the world made him reckless, 1959)
David Lynch (He erased our heads, 1946)
Landy Randerson (Museum access pioneer, 1949)
Garth Hudson (Bandolier, 1937)
Brian Murphy (Instantly aged actor, 1932)
Rab MacWilliam (Hackney historian, 1951)
Barry Goldberg (His flag was electric, 1941)
Peter Yarrow (He left on a jetplane, 1938)
Snowy Fleet (Easybeater, 1939)
Jamie Muir (Absolute fucking rhythmical genius, 1942)
Mike Ratledge (Moon in June Soft Machine man, 1943)
Gabriel Yacoub (Malicorne muso of French folk, 1952)
Bill Fay (Christian mystic songwriter seer, 1943)
Roberta Flack (Made Ewan MacColl sexy, 1937)
Gene Hackman (an actor who knew when not to,1930)
Jay Rayner’s Observer restaurant column (1999)
David Johansen (New York Doll, 1950)
Bill Dare (Even his socks were funny, 1959)
Johnny Green (A gentleman, a dandy, and always a pleasure,)
Ken Parker (The Blue Bender, 1943)
Edweena Banger (Her nose bled, 1959)
John Cassady (Planetary penman, 1971)
Joey Molland (His finger was bad, 1947)
Peter Farrelly (Fruuppster, 1949)
Jesse Colin Young (He got it together, 1941)
Brian James (Lord of The Damned, 1955)
Roy Ayers (Good vibes, 1940)
Bob Rupe (Brilliant Gutterball and Silos bottom end)
Nadia Cassini (Starcrash starlet, 1949)
Nike Arrighi (The Devil Rides Out, 1944)
Bill Smith (Original Corrie, 1936)
DG Hessayon (Garden expert who answered my questions, 1928)
Elliot Ingber (Winged Eel Fingerling, 1941)
Leanne Cowie (Scientific drummer, 1964?)
George Foreman (Meat griller, 1949)
Michael Hurley (He’s gone back to Capistrano, 1941)
Dave Allen (At Home He’s A Bassist, 1955)
Alastair MacKinven (Country teaser and artist, 1971)
Clem Burke (Magic Christian Plimsoul & Elvis Ramone, 1954)
Larry Tamblyn (He loved that dirty water, 1943)
Clive Revill (The Emperor strikes back, 1930)
Amadou Bagayoko (blind bluesman, 1955)
Max Romeo (Wet-dreaming devil chaser, 1944)
Clodagh Rogers (Northern Irish Spider-Woman, 1947)
Pope Francis (Relatively inoffensive pope, 1936)
Eleonora Giorgi (Young, violent and dangerous, 1953)
David Thomas (Ube Pere, 1953)
Mike Peters (He alarmed Wales, 1959)
James Baker (Hoodoo victim of beastly scientists, 1954)
Larry Lee (Ozark Mountain Devil, 1947)
Wizz Jones (The Lazy Farmer, 1939)
David Briggs (He signalled the test of our whistles, 1943)
Kimble Rendall (Hoodoo Guru from year zero, 1957)
Jack Katz (First Kingdom comics guy, 1927)
Ed Smylie (Saved Apollo 13 with sellotape, 1914)
George Wendt (Barfly Freak Fan, 1948)
Peter David (He turned Hulk grey for peanuts, 1956)
Loretta Switt (Hilarious dish of MASH, 1937)
Louis Moholo (S African freedom-drummer, 1940)
Hunt Powers (Spaghetti star, 1929)