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Description: A benefit to raise funds for the production of a CD box set of the complete works of cult comic Ted Chippington, with Simon Amstell, Dan Brown, Stephen Carlin, Kevin Eldon, Richard Herring, Robin Ince, Phill Jupitus, Stewart Lee, Lee & Herring, Josie Long and Simon Munnery. Ted Chippington will not be attending the event.

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The Bloomsbury Theatre Gordon Street, WC1H 0AH

Phone: 0207388 8822

Website: www.thebloomsbury.com

Extra info: Pub, Party Hire, Food

Transport: Rail/Tube: Euston; Tube: Euston Square Transport for London , Tube / Bus: 10, 18, 24, 29, 73, 91, 168, 253

Celebration of offbeat laughs

Surreal: Ted Chippington earned a cult following in the eighties for his deliberately awful jokes

Sharon Lougher, London Lite 7 Feb 2007

Surreal Midlands comic Ted Chippington earned a cult following in the Eighties for his deliberately awful jokes and songs before heading across the pond to obscurity.

So it fell to celebrated fan Stewart Lee to put together last night's show to raise funds to put some of Chippington's old work on CD.

In forcing some of his peers to re-live their earlier work, Lee took us back to times when there was little fame and fortune in comedy.

Highlights were plentiful: Lee in older-brotherly role as he and former TV foil Richard Herring did their double-act for the first time in 17 years; Simon Munnery's brutally funny stereotypes (Alan Parker: Urban Warrior), and Phill Jupitus reliving his Porky The Poet days.

Even Chippington himself rocked up with a few jokes and a butchering of D-I-S-C-O.

This wasn't just a night for Chippington, but a night that celebrated offbeat comedy.