ELIZABETH AND RALEIGH: LATE BUT LIVE ★★ - August 2008 The British Theatre Guide - By Philip Fisher - August 4th, 2008

Stewart Lee’s latest venture feels like a work in progress, the impression hardly dispelled by a faulty sound system. Elizabeth (Simon Munnery) and Raleigh (Miles Jupp) looks at the two historical characters using the same techniques as last year’s more fluid and satisfying portrait of Johnson and Boswell. In this case, each of Mia Flodquist’s…

ELIZABETH AND RALEIGH: LATE BUT LIVE ★★★★ - August 2008 Three Weeks - August 4th, 2008

With their britches bursting with gags, Sir Walter Raleigh (Miles Jupp) and Queen Elizabeth (Simon Munnery) pull off this glorious display of costumed silliness, following the story of the Queen’s relationship with her favourite courtier. Jupp’s dashing Raleigh and Munnery’s pernickety queen do credit to that quintessentially British obsession with dressing up as our ancestors…

Johnson and Boswell – Late but Live - March 2008 The Stage - By Thom Dibdin - March 28th, 2008

Convivial and sardonic by turns, Miles Jupp and Simon Munnery take Stewart Lee’s well-judged script and proceed to deliver a delicious hour of fun. Miles Jupp and Simon Munnery in the touring production of Johnson and Boswell – Late but Live Combining all manner of stand-up, sketch and character-based comedies, this is costume drama with…

Johnson and Boswell – Late But Live ★★★★ - August 2007 The Times - By Robert Dawson Scott - August 15th, 2007

A clever idea, to bring the great lexicographer and his toadying sidekick back to the 21st century to revisit their famous journey to the Hebrides, in the Traverse’s late-night comedy slot. Late, you see, as in dead. But alive again. Iain Gillie, the promoter whose idea it was, made his best move in recruiting Stewart…

Johnson and Boswell – Late But Live ★★★★ - August 2007 The Metro - By Alan Chadwick - August 15th, 2007

‘Aaaaaaand now, all the way from England… Dr Samuel Johnson!’ says a bewigged James Boswell (Miles Jupp, on top form as the 18th-century biographer), acting as MC and warm-up act in Stewart Lee’s comedy theatre show. ‘Didn’t I tell you he was a funny man ladies and gentlemen?’ says Boswell, having cajoled the legendary lexicographer…

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…