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The comedy prize was won by BBC2's The League Of Gentlemen for their dark stories about fictional northern village Royston Vasey.
As well as housing the infamous 'local shop' created by the League of Gentlemen for Royston Vaizey (motto: 'You'll never leave...) Marsden is the birthplace of the poet Simon Armitage.
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Just as eagerly awaited in some quarters is this first performance in eight years by the League of Gentlemen, assembled for a gig on World Aids Day to fund a new immunity unit at the Royal Free hospital, London.
"I want to thank all of you gentlemen for coming to Louisville to see me fight," he said.
One day they looked at what they had wrought – I'm guessing around The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen for Sean and Welcome To Mooseport for Gene – and probably thought: the hell with this, life is too goddamn short!
Joby Talbot, a modern composer who has scored the music for TV's The League of Gentlemen and arranged for The Divine Comedy, is currently at work on the soundtrack for a Disney film of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams' cult novel that informed the psyches of so many science-fiction-obsessed, bespectacled boys in need of a bit of fantasy in the early 1980s.
The Stand, Mon to 20 Dec Winning the Edinburgh comedy award can be a passport to TV fame – as it was for the likes of Sean Hughes, The League Of Gentlemen and Russell Kane – but for many it doesn't quite pan out that way.
An 1884 New York Times article explained: "the latest fashionable idiosyncrasy in London" was "the visiting of the slums… by parties of ladies and gentlemen for sightseeing".
Big-screen transfers for much-loved television sitcoms tend to follow something of a hit and miss pattern: for every Inbetweeners Movie there's a League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse, and for every Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa there's a Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie.
But nothing to suggest that legal education will remain anything other than the preserve of "sons of country gentleman" for a few more centuries yet.
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