Footlights

Cleese traces his ascent from stifling lower middle-class, where the apex of ambition was avoidance of embarrassment, to Broadway, where he ended up part of a hit Footlights revue.

John Cleese - review 2011

The Cambridge Footlights come up to Edinburgh every year to tout their latest wares, and though it would appear that every Footlights show since the time of Fry & Laurie has been enthusiastically performed, they've also been, well, a tiny bit rubbish.

Edinburgh fringe festival new comedy 2011

I think they said, 'We've run out of the ex-Footlights people we usually go to.

John Bishop: Where did it all go right? Brian Logan 2010

So these were the guys who succeeded in getting into Cambridge, and being in the Footlights.

Ali MacLean: I Believe That Eddie Izzard Is Our Future 2010

Bishop has a common touch seldom associated with ex-Footlights comics: it's a brand of trad standup that pleases a mass audience, but it can alienate comedy snobs.

John Bishop: Where did it all go right? Brian Logan 2010

So these were the guys who succeeded in getting into Cambridge, and being in the Footlights.

Ali MacLean: I Believe That Eddie Izzard Is Our Future 2010

He first came up as a Cambridge student, directed his then-girlfriend Emily in the Footlights revue in 2003, and proposed to her at the end of his first 24-hour show in 2004.

Sara Pascoe vs Her Ego; Mark Watson: Do I Know You?; Gary Delaney: Purist; Laura Solon: The Owl of Steven 2010

I was trying to get into Cambridge, just to get into the Footlights.

Ali MacLean: I Believe That Eddie Izzard Is Our Future 2010

In the early 90s, she began a teacher training course in Oxford, but dropped out after "accidentally" joining Footlights.

Olivia Colman in Rev 2010

I was trying to get into Cambridge, just to get into the Footlights.

Ali MacLean: I Believe That Eddie Izzard Is Our Future 2010