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Janice Forsyth taps into the funny business in Scotland and worldwide with all that's new in comedy on radio, TV, the movies, DVD, books, online and live performances

The Comedy Café: 09/09/2011

09/09/2011

BBC Radio Scotland - The Comedy Café, 09/09/2011

Ricky Grover talks about his alter ego Bulla and his own film Big Fat Gypsy Gangster.

Comedian Ricky Grover talks about his comedy character Bulla and starring in his own feature film, Big Fat Gypsy Gangster.

Following a 16-year stint at Her Majesty's pleasure, "Bulla", Britain's hardest man, is out of the can and back on the London streets, with an Anglophile American documentary film-maker in tow. Original East End geezer and comedian, Ricky Grover, talks about his explosive comedy character Bulla as he stars in his own feature film, "Big Fat Gypsy Gangster".

The fathers of British sitcom, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, wrote such classics as Hancock's Half Hour, Comedy Playhouse and Steptoe And Son. With unprecedented access to 600 of their classic scripts, author and journalist Christopher Stevens uncovers exclusive material from these two comedy maestros in his book "The Masters of Sitcom".

"Very Old Pretenders", which examines how two Jacobite soldiers view modern Scotland.

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