Vaudeville theatre, London, 1994I saw Terry Johnson's Dead Funny at the Vaudeville theatre. Zoë Wanamaker played Eleanor, the wife of Richard, the president of the Dead Funny Society, which celebrates dead comedians such as Spike Milligan. After Benny Hill dies they holds a wake, and in the middle of this there are two marriages breaking down. So you've got painful home truths coming out while people dressed up li…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM on February 5, 2011