Well, it would be a great help if Princess Anne gassed Jamie Oliver. He’s killed more animals than McDonald’s. Norman was a wonderful person. He was so easy-going and a brilliant comic. You would have thought that the two of us clashed, two drag characters, but he was unique and no-one else could do his routines. We got on very well together. It was northern and southern comedy on TV together, and it just merged.’ Rex wrote all his own material, and was praised for his immaculate timing and delivery. Not only was he the comedian that comedians watched, he was the comedian that comedians wanted to be. For different reasons these acts will have you scratching your head. They’ve constructed shows to make you think and ponder on some of life’s social/political issues: Alp Haydar, David Hoyle, Dusty Limits, Scottee, Scott Capurro. Is World Peace Is None Of Your Business a call to arms or a lament? You’re clearly displeased with many things...

It was an incredible night. I’d met Tom a few times and – this will sound silly to you – but he’s one of the very few people who treat me like an ordinary man. When my glass gets low he tops it up without fussing about, and he seems to like me, but I don’t think he likes the music and I understand why not. opening of the Metropolitan Theatre on Wednesday the 22nd of December 1897 consisted of a variety show with the following acts appearing: Tom White and his Arabs, Princess It’s important to avoid certain key words that I feel I’ve over-used in the past, and I do my best never to repeat melodies.One Monday she appeared at the Mecca Dominion, Walthamstow, the same night as Miss World. They both went to entertain the bingo-players. Shuff got the most laughs, mainly from madams who looked just like her. She had thought of hiring a bathing costume and going on as Miss Courage, riding 14 white horses from Whitbreads, not to be outdone. Innuendo, double entendres and suggestive language, without vulgarity, have played, and still do today, a large part in camp stand-up cabaret routines and performances. Past legends: Cher Travesty, Crystal Waide, Danny La Rue, Maisie Trollette, Phil Starr, Ruby Venezuela. A child who had been abandoned at birth, Rex Coster was named by the couple who adopted him. He was raised in Southend-on-Sea, until 1938 when they moved to Holloway in London, an area that was heavily bombed during the Blitz.

You can’t go wrong in choosing anything, and I love people who dodge all the gender-imperative rubbish that society torments us all with. I love the fact that he didn’t think that heterosexuality resolved anything at all, meaning, I assume, that he didn’t think it was enough just to be heterosexual. You read him and you are immediately convinced that the rest of the world is suffering a mass mental illness. I love writers like that.

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the winter of 1960 and the 317th edition of Revudeville when the lovable Lord Charles joined the show.

HOT PRESS: A song on World Peace Is None Of Your Business that will definitely resonate with Irish fans is ‘Mountjoy’. What are your impressions of the place? Above - A Sketch showing the Metropolitan Theatre as envisioned as a Theatre Restaurant in 1959 - From the ILN, 11th April 1959.

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These acts bounce off each other like Olympic table tennis champions. They’re so in sync that they’ve almost morphed into one person. I love being with the band. We get on so well, and at the end of each day we’re happy just to sit in each other’s company and talk and talk and talk and be silly. It’s better than professional therapy. The highlights for me are always the hard cities such as Sao Paulo or Belo Horizonte or Bogota or Guadalajara. There’s a lot of affection for me in places of struggle, and I understand why. We have the same identifications... the same clothes, in fact. How did you react to the recent revelations that M15 confiscated a paedophile dossier naming VIP figures, drawn up by Barbara Castle? I didn’t even raise an eyebrow. The fact that the dossier is supposedly missing is immaterial. People read it and know what it says, and they couldn’t possibly forget the names that they read. Similarly, the ‘royal’ family have determined that the file on the famous Profumo case not be opened or made available to the public until 50 years after Prince Philip’s death. Draw your own conclusions from that. What becomes farcical is the way the modern Conservative government dictate to the public about tax and recession and recycling, and we’re expected to listen and obey, whilst that same government apparently has a history of paedophilia which they go to excessive lengths to hide, whilst telling us how naughty everyone else is. Last week the Pope announced that 2% of priests, bishops and cardinals in the Catholic church are known paedophiles! And this was the fifth story on the news! And we’re asked to have faith in the Catholic church! The world has officially gone mad.

He was fantastic and scored within the first 20 seconds. We were already out of our seats. He takes it all so casually and almost slowly. It’s confidence, of course. He really is the best. Roger Baker. Drag: a history of Female Impersonation on the Stage . London: A Triton Book. 1968: 184-5.

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I hadn't set out to go to the Windmill that day. I was only fourteen, still at convent school, and in a feeble The stuff you’re not allowed to say or show on TV or the West End stage – that’s what I try to do.”– Alp Haydar You may have to take a second glance and clear out your lug-holes, as they’re the cream of the crop in mimicry: Boy George Experience, Ceri Dupree, Charlie Hides, David Dale, D.E Experience, La Voix.