Robin Williams Reportedly Wanted to Buy a Comedy Club to Impress David Bowie – UK Times

Robin Williams reportedly wanted to buy a comedy club to impress David Bowie – UK Times

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Robin Williams was apparently so eager to impress Eighties music legend David Bowie that he reportedly threatened to buy London’s iconic comedy club, The Comic Strip, just so he could perform stand-up for the rock star. In a new interview with The Guardian, The Comic…

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It was the moment comedy broke with sexism – yet it happened in a strip club. It was a fervour of free creative expression – yet it retained a commercial, careerist edge. It was one of the longest-running and most successful brands in UK comedy history – which few people could now recognise. At the Edinburgh fringe this summer, The Comic Strip Presents … will be memorialised in a series of film screenings and Q&As with its creator and prime move…