Also in this penultimate edition, we wax lyrical with the nation's unofficial poet laureate and all-round excellent fellow, John Hegley, who's back in Edinburgh this year with his latest comic verse compendium, Letter to an Earwig.
But in their new compendium of comic sketches, which opened on Monday night at the Pershing Square Signature Center, these supremely talented performers display the bubbly energy and shining vitality — not to mention amazingly elastic faces and limbs — of men half their age.
As written, Stache is a compendium of comic influences: he owes his angular outline and his "face foliage" to Groucho; his bravura ignorance to Kevin Kline's character in "A Fish Called Wanda"; and his foppish swagger to Tim Curry in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show".
After writing the snappy (if atypically sentimental) screenplay for Leisen's Remember the Night (1940), Sturges directed Christmas in July 19400), a deftly crafted low-budget compendium of comic confusions about a lowly clerk (played by Dick Powell) who goes on a mad shopping spree after mistakenly thinking that he has won $25,000 in a contest.
An evening of short — make that very short — plays by David Ives, it is more a compendium of varyingly successful comic sketches than anything approaching full-blown comedy.
Rowling published the Fantastic Beasts "magizoology" compendium in 2001 in aid of Comic Relief.
Rowling published the Fantastic Beasts magizoology compendium in 2001 to raise money for Comic Relief.
Including paintings, drawings and sculpture, as well as comic books, the show reveals the mural to be a compendium of ideas accumulated over a lifetime of research into the semiotics of modern art and culture (Johnson).
Rowling published the "magizoology" compendium in 2001 to raise money for the charity Comic Relief; the films will feature the book's ostensible author, the swashbuckling adventurer Newt Scamander.
Rowling published the Fantastic Beasts "magizoology" compendium in 2001 to raise money for the charity Comic Relief; the films will feature the book's ostensible author, the swashbuckling adventurer Newt Scamander.
