Simon is queen for a play in a fun take on history - October 2008 Coventry Telegraph - By Marion Mcmullen - October 3rd, 2008

PLAYING a drama queen is proving a right royal pain in the backside for Simon Munnery. He puts on wigs, ruffs, makeup and elaborate costumes to transform himself into famous monarch Elizabeth I for comedy special Elizabeth & Raleigh – Late But Live. The offering by Stewart Lee teams Simon with Miles Jupp, as Walter…

Five questions for… Simon Munnery - September 2008 The Metro - By ANDRZEJ LUKOWSKI - September 8th, 2008

Following the success of last year’s Johnson & Boswell, smarty-pants comedians Simon Munnery, Miles Jupp and writer Stewart Lee regrouped for this year’s Elizabeth & Raleigh, bringing Munnery’s alarming-looking Elizabeth I into conflict with Jupp’s besotted Walter Raleigh. Was a follow-up to Johnson & Boswell something you wanted to do from the start? We all…

Blissful Balamory days are a million Miles away - August 2007 Edinburgh Evening News - August 14th, 2007

When award-winning stand-up MILES JUPP lived in Edinburgh, life was simple. Every year the Festival would come and go without the star of Balamory (he played Archie, the inventor) giving it any real thought. “I was really nervous about this year’s Fringe. Up until last year I lived in Edinburgh, so this is the first…

The 5-Minute Interview: Miles Jupp, Comedian - August 2007 The Independent - August 10th, 2007

‘People think I’m calm but I’ve got a flash temper’ Miles Jupp, 28, is a popular stand-up comedian and regularly appears on stage and screen. He is also well known as Archie, the inventor in the television series ‘Balamory’. He is performing his stand-up show ‘Johnson and Boswell: Late But Live’ at the Edinburgh Festival…

Late But Live Reaching out to break the boundaries - August 2007 The Herald - By Neil Cooper - August 9th, 2007

Penning a late-night Fringe play about literature’s greatest double act isn’t the most obvious career move for a stand-up comedian. Then again, Stewart Lee’s 20-year career hasn’t exactly followed the usual path. He directed and co-wrote Jerry Springer: The Opera, moonlighted as a music journalist and recently made his debut as a fiction writer in…

Dr Johnson revival shows that old jokes really are best - August 2007 The Times - By Ben Hoyle - August 7th, 2007

With his rapier wit, caustic put-downs and prodigious appetite for drink, Samuel Johnson is right at home on the Edinburgh Fringe but for one thing: his jokes are 230 years old. In 18th-century London, Dr Johnson was a superstar — the author of the first English dictionary, a critic and a novelist who dominated the…